Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

First, Towards them: When you thus endeavour to shame them out of their Wickedness, by discountenancing them in ⟨p. 10⟩it. So says the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3.14. If any Man obey not our Word, note that Man, and have no Company with him, that he may be ashamed. And indeed, if a Man be not altogether profligate, if he be not utterly lost to Modesty, it must needs make him reflect upon himself with Shame and Blushing, that certainly he is grown a strange vile Wretch, a loathsome and odious Monster, when all good and sober Men do thus carefully shun and avoid him. Now Shame is a good step to Amendment: And a Blush the first colour that Virtue takes.

First, Towards them: When you thus endeavour to shame them out of their Wickedness, by discountenancing them in ⟨p. 10⟩it. So says the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3.14. If any Man obey not our Word, note that Man, and have no Company with him, that he may be ashamed. And indeed, if a Man be not altogether profligate, if he be not utterly lost to Modesty, it must needs make him reflect upon himself with Shame and Blushing, that certainly he is grown a strange vile Wretch, a loathsom and odious Monster, when all good and sober Men do thus carefully shun and avoid him. Now Shame is a good step to Amendment: And a Blush the first colour that Virtue takes.

Secondly, Towards your selves: You are obliged to abandon them, as to reclaim them, so to secure your selves: For Vice is very contagious, and it is unsafe to converse with those, who ⟨p. 11⟩have such Plague-Sores running upon them, lest you be also infected.