A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

3. When by some circumstances it proveth not edifying, but •ather hurtful to the Church, or the Persons concerned; As 1. When the scandal is in such a matter as is not expressly determined in the Word, but is by consequence to be deduced from it; as suppose it be meant such a point of truth as •as Divines, that are godly, dissentient in it, or in such a practise (suppose perjury) as is evil indeed in it self; but, by deduction and consequence (which is not so clear) to be applied; or it is in such things as affect not a natural Conscience, as Fornication, Drunkenness, and Adultery, &c. do; or in such things as contradict not expressly any Truth; And 2. When the scandal of these sins is by universality become little among men, or there is not easy access, in an edifying way, to decide in them, or censure them; there is still a right and a wrong in these which a Minister in Doctrine may reprove, y •t he may forbear a judicial sentence in such cases, as it seemeth Paul did with the Corinthians, amongst whom there were several sorts of Offenders. 1. Incestuous Fornicators, or such as sinned against Nature's light; these 1 Cor. 5.3, 4 • 5. &c. he commandeth to be excluded or excommunicated. 2. Such as by corrupt Doctrine made Schisms, and mis-led the People in factions, to the prejudice of the Apostle's Authority and Doctrine, chap. 3. v. 3. &c. Deceitful Workers, 2, Cor. •1.13. these for a time, 2 Cor 10▪6. he spareth for the Peoples sake. 2 Cor. 12.19. 3. Some weakly and carnally mis led into factions, 1 Cor. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4. these he end •avoureth to recover. 4. Some guilty ⟨p. 105⟩of faults about the Sacrament, in their wrong manner of going about it, 1 Cor. 11