The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

4. If we have long waited for fit seasons, and yet cannot find them, you had better make a breach upon ones prudence, than ones conscience; discretion then must give place to necessity, out with it, and leave the success to God.

4. If wee have long waited for fit seasons, and yet cannot finde them, you had better make a breach upon ones prudence, than ones conscience; discretion then must give place to necessity, out with it, and leave the success to God.

5. He must manage his Reproof with due conditions and qualification. And beloved there are seven properties of that Reproof that will in all likelihood both benefit and better our Brother, and also secure our selves from participation of his sins.

5. Hee must manage his Reproof with due conditions and qualification. And beloved there are seven properties of that Reproof that will in all likelihood both benefit and better our Brother, and also secure our selves from participation of his sins.

1. We must reprove seriously and in good earnest, so as to knock the nail up to the head in the conscience of the sinner, Psal. 50.21. — So should we in our Reproofs, of our Brother, charge him home, these things hast thou done, there is no denying; thou art the man, says Nathan to David; before he was in his parable, but now he speaks plain English, as we say.—This Jesus whom ye have crucified, says Peter to the •ews, and thus we should set things in order before him. Sir, is not this and that highly to dishonour God, and to crack your credit, and to shame your profession, and to impair your body, and to waste your estate, and to wound your conscience, and to damn your precious and immortal soul: and therefore for the Lords sake think on it, and amend it. A loose and squibbing kind of Reproof is like an ignis Lambens, as soon off as on, and does the man more hurt than good. As Eli's careless and loose reproving of his lewd Sons, did rather harden them in their villainy, than any way reform them. As it is with weak Physic administered to a sick man, if it doth only stir the humours, but not purge them away, it leaves the body in a greater and worse distemper than it was before. So 'tis here, — therefore says the Apostle,