Mu,fi we go as far from Sinners. 223 gularity in things indifferent and yet prefently desired t,) get difciples to take their narres,;and follow their rules ; fo is it with moll that begin in fìngularity They would have all follow them that it might grow common. ...-.-aon+.-- DIRECT. XLVI. When you have to do only with ßigmnatized fcandalous ones, to 'vindicate the honour of ofëhrgflianity from their fcandal , go far from them or lanfully you can: Bat with the common fort of inners , whole converfen you are bound to feek, óo not farfrom them 114 you can, but purpofely fludy to come as near them, as lawfully you may, that you may have the better aavaur tage to win them to the truth. Nit Hen it is cur ocrk to avoid perfons that they may be alhamed, or that we may Thewour deteRation of their wickednefs, then going from them is our duty, and we mull do it (To the excommunicate in ptblick, and to the Lo:orioufly wicked and impenitent after admoni- tion, in our private way cf life. ) But with moll men, our duty is to labour their convei ficn, and in hope to feek the faving cf their fouls, till they prove as dogs and fvvine to their emhorters. Ir is a common quefiien whether we should go as far as
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