Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

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.

To them: ¹As it may restrain them from the commission of those future Crimes, to which their impurity would else embolden them. And thus to fall into the Hands of Men, may be ⟨p. 8⟩a means to keep them from falling into the Hands of God.

To them: ¹As it may restrain them from the commission of those future Crimes, to which their impurity would else imbolden them. And thus to fall into the Hands of Men, may be