The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…

As for those,¹ that are fallen from thee, by trespassing against thee, thou must observe these rules of carriage towards them.

As for those,¹ that are fallen from thee, by trespassing against thee, thou must obserue these rules of carriage towards them.

1. 1How we must carry our selves towards such as trespass against us.How we must carry our selues towards such as trespasse against vs.

First, in slighter wrongs do all things without reasonings, or murmurings: either speak not of it, or so, as thou show no repining, or vexation about it, Phil. 2. 14. Secondly, in great wrongs, thou must do two things:

First, in slighter wrongs doe all things vvithout reasonings, or murmurings: either speake not of it, or so, as thou shew no repining, or vexation about it, Phil. 2. 14. Secondly, in great wrongs, thou must doe two things:

First, observe the method of our Saviour Christ: when the trespass ⟨p. 293⟩is secret, go and tell him of it between thee and him: If he mend not, then take two or three other discreet godly persons with thee, and tell him of it again: if he yet mend not, then divulge it, and acquaint the Church with it: Either seek a public sentence upon him from authority, or acquaint the godly generally with it: and if these courses will not amend him, then abandon his society, as if he were a Heathen, or a Publican,