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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. We must reprove discreetly, making a difference between man and man; For though it's true, that all are to be reproved, that are offenders, especially within the Pale of the Church, 1 Cor. 5.12. Except they be scorners which Christ calls Dogs and Swine, Mat. 7.6. and obstinate Heretics, Titus 3.10. yet all must not be handled in the same manner; Some will do more with a Rod, than others will do with a Scorpion. A Glass is not to be handled so roughly as a Brazen ⟨p. 185⟩Vessel; this Rule St. Jude gives, vers. 22, 23.—Some must be dealt withal with lenitives, others with corrosives; some gently reproved, others sharply rebuked, according to the tenderness or stubbornness of their disposition, or according to the nature and quality of their offences; and here abundance of Rules might be said down about public, private, great, small, seldom, or frequent offences. In one word, a Reprover must be like the Thrasher, that the Prophet describes, as one says, Isa. 28.17, 28.
3. Wee must reprove discreetly, making a difference between man and man; For though it's true, that all are to bee reproved, that are offenders, especially within the Pale of the Church, 1 Cor. 5.12. Except they bee scorners which Christ calls Dogs and Swine, Mat. 7.6. and obstinate Hereticks, Titus 3.10. yet all must not bee handled in the same manner; Some will do more with a Rod, than others will do with a Scorpion. A Glass is not to bee handled so roughly as a Brazen ⟨p. 185⟩Vessel; this Rule St. Jude gives, vers. 22, 23.—Some must bee dealt withall with lenitives, others with corrosives; some gently reproved, others sharply rebuked, according to the tenderness or stubbornness of their disposition, or according to the nature and quality of their offences; and here abundance of Rules might bee said down about publick, private, great, small, seldome, or frequent offences. In one word, a Reprover must bee like the Thrasher, that the Prophet describes, as one saies,