Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

Secondly, ¹By Actions; That where Words have proved ineffectual, we may try how Deeds can prevail. Prevail, I say, either to deliver them, or, ⟨p. 7⟩at least, to deliver thine own Soul from Death. And this also must be done these two ways.

1. 1Reproof may be by Actions.

First, §1¹If they be our Inferiors over whom we have Authority, either as Magistrates, or Parents, or the like; we ought, when Admonition and Correption is fruitless, to reprove them by Correction and Punishment: If they will not hear, they must feel Rebuke. This Discipline if it be seasonably and prudently used, is so far from being any Act of Cruelty, that it is an Act of the greatest Kindness and Charity that can be both to them and to others.

First, §1¹If they be our Inferiours over whom we have Authority, either as Magistrates, or Parents, or the like; we ought, when Admonition and Correption is fruitless, to reprove them by Correction and Punishment: If they will not hear, they must feel Rebuke. This Discipline if it be seasonably and prudently used, is so far from being any Act of Cruelty, that it is an Act of the greatest Kindness and Charity that can be both to them and to others.

1. 1Reproof of Inferiors, is to be by Authority.