3. For reproof that they may be absolute in six degrees. 1. Let the sin be set forth in its colours, and weighed in the balance of the Sanctuary, and so the heinousness of it may be seen. 2. Let it be described to the full, by bringing it down to the particulars, else it will be too big a net, and men will find evasions, but if it be brought to the threads of particulars, none will get out, and if it be delivered in gross, it will fasten on none. 3. Let the persons be notified that are guilty, not by name or circumstances, that the Congregation may know, but that they may be convinced in their consciences, and that is done by delivering the signs of the vice we reprove. In diseases we see not the Radices, but the Symptoms of it, so we see not sin in the heart, but in the practice. Therefore signs are good. 4. Let reproof be renewed, not naked as it is drawn from the Text, but ⟨p. 325⟩with other reasons, to make us afraid of committing it, as from the danger, the consequents, the effects, and Gods judgements on such sins: and here if speeches be edged with Rhetoric, to make a division between the marrow and the bones, it shall be fitly done. 5. The secret reasons must be answered, that keep men in the practice of sin, for if there be but one objection unanswered, the reproof will not fasten on them, for no man sinneth but by false reasons, therefore they are called deceitful lusts, and this is required, 2 Cor. 10. 4. The weapons of our warfare are spiritual, casting down imaginations, the word is [Greek or Hebrew]
3. For reproof that they may be absolute in six degrees. 1. Let the sin be set forth in its colours, and weighed in the ballance of the Sanctuary, and so the hainousnesse of it may be seen. 2. Let it be described to the full, by bringing it down to the particulars, else it will be too big a net, and men will find evasions, but if it be brought to the threads of particulars, none will get out, and if it be delivered in gross, it will fasten on none. 3. Let the persons be notified that are guilty, not by name or circumstances, that the Congregation may know, but that they may be convinced in their consciences, and that is done by delivering the signs of the vice we reprove. In diseases we see not the Radices, but the Symptomes of it, so we see not sin in the heart, but in the practice. Therefore signs are good. 4. Let reproof be renewed, not naked as it is drawn from the Text, but ⟨p. 325⟩with other reasons, to make us afraid of committing it, as from the danger, the consequents, the effects, and Gods judgements on such sins: and here if speeches be edged with Rhetorick, to make a division between the marrow and the bones, it shall be fitly done. 5. The secret reasons must be answered, that keep men in the practice of sin, for if there be but one objection unanswered, the reproof will not fasten on them, for no man sinneth but by false reasons, therefore they are called deceitful lusts, and this is required, 2 Cor. 10. 4. The weapons of our warfare are spiritual, casting down imaginations, the word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉
