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The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
Part 3 › Chapter 11: Admonition is necessary, and how to be performed.
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It is useful for the people to guard them against such an evil, and such a person. 3. If it succeed not, it leaveth the person more inexcusable, and convinces all of the justice and necessity of proceeding ⟨p. 233⟩further, and so tendeth to make the Sentence to be the more respected by all. This, we conceive, is the admonition intended, Tit. 3. 10. and answereth to that public rebuke, spoken of, 1 Tim. 5. 20.
It is usefull for the people to guard them against such an evil, and such a person. 3. If it succeed not, it leaveth the person more inexcusable, and convinces all of the justice and necessity of proceeding ⟨p. 233⟩further, and so tendeth to make the Sentence to be the more respected by all. This, we conceive, is the admonition intended, Tit. 3. 10. and answereth to that publick rebuke, spoken of, 1 Tim. 5. 20.
In carrying-on these admonitions, these things1 would be observed, 1. That there be no great hasting, except the persons readiness and diligence to infect others require the same, in which case there is no delay to be admitted. 2. All these steps of admonition would be so carried-on as becometh an Ordinance of Christ, and that the weight of them may lie there. 3. There is difference to be put betwixt giving of an admonition, and entering of a debate for conference; Therefore there is no necessity of suspending an admonition, because the person is absent, more than there is of suspending of a warning or citation: And, on the other side, If the persons were present, and should contradict and oppose themselves, there is no necessity nor conveniency of entering in debate again, because that is not the present work, but authoritatively to admonish those who have resisted sufficient conviction, and so they are to be left under the weight of the admonition, from which the renewing of debate would diminish.