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Fourthly, And lastly, to add no more, you have often reproved §4or censured others for their miscarriages and falls, which adds to your own obligation, to walk accurately and evenly. Have you not often reproved your erring brethren? or at least privately ⟨p. 614⟩censured them, if not duly reproved them, (for to these left handed blows of secret censurings, we are more apt than to the fair and open strokes of just and due reproofs) and will you practise the same things, you criminate and censure others for? Thou that teachest another, (saith the Apostle) teachest thou not thy self? Rom. 2.21. So say I, thou that censurest or rebukest another, condemnest thou not thy self? Will your rebukes ever do good to others, whilst you allow in your selves what you condemn in them? And as these reproofs and censures can do them no good, so they do you much evil, by reason of them you are [Greek or Hebrew] self condemned persons; and out of your own mouths God will Judge you. For you need no other witness, than your selves in this case. Your own tongues will fall upon you. Your censures and reproofs of others, will leave you without plea, or Apology, if you look not to your lives with greater care. And yet will you be careless still? Fear you not the displeasure of God? nor the wounding and disquieting your own consciences? Surely these things are of no light value with you, if you be Christians indeed.

Fourthly, And lastly, to add no more, you have often reproved §4or censured others for their miscarriages and falls, which adds to your own obligation, to walk accuratly and evenly. Have you not often reproved your erring brethren? or at least privately ⟨p. 614⟩censured them, if not duly reproved them, (for to these left handed blows of secret censurings, we are more apt than to the fair and open strokes of just and due reproofs) and will you practise the same things, you criminate and censure others for? Thou that teachest another, (saith the Apostle) teachest thou not thy self?