The application of redemption

If the public scandals and evil which have broke out in our practice to the offence of others, and stumbling of the weak, the grief of the good, the encouragement of the wicked, who may be provoked in the like carriages or confirmed in them by reason of our example; then its requisite and necessary, men should take open shame by solemn acknowledgement. Its the rule which Christ. hath left unto the Church, who sin openly rebuke openly 1 Tim. 5. 20. and if a rebuke according to the rule of God ought to be dispensed, it ought to be received. And that is a main end […] on both hands ought to be looked at, both in giving and receiving public censure, that the delinquent be ashamed, and brought to acknowledge his sin & judg himself for it. So Joshua to Achan Jos. 7. 19. tell me what hast thou done? 1 Thes. 4. 14. If any man obey […] the Gospel, note such a man, set a brand upon him by a sad censure that he may be ashamed and so see his evil and come to acknowledgement of it. And hence men should lay shame upon him and he answerably ought to take it. And when men are out of the Church that the power thereof cannot reach them, the connivance and […] of humane laws, will not see execution done upon them; Its commonly the way of providence, that the Lord doth force men to do that out of horror of conscience which they will not do out of Conscience to Gods holy command. Sometimes the Lord arrests men upon their sick beds and constraineth them to bear the shame of that, which they would not be brought to see in the days of their folly. Then send for such and such who have been deeply wronged by me, for such who have been corrupted by my example, The evil counsel that I have given, the loathsome carriages and unsavoury language, and speeches that I have expressed, those subtle insinuations, and baits that I have laid to entice and entangle them, I desire now that God would pardon and they forgive: yea such who have ⟨p. 623⟩been ringleaders to their wicked and lewd courses they were not able to abide their persons and practice, either take him away, or remove me hence says the sick party thus they brought their […] and […] them openly in the view of all, when once God brought their hearts to a through sight and sorrow for their sin