240Be forwarder to exhort than to reprove. vil. But to Thew Love and impartiality to ail ; and to be much more in fpeaking ofall the good which is in them, than of the evil : Efpecially if they be your enemies, or differ from you in opi- nions of Religion : Tit. 3. z. Put them in mind to be fubjett toprincipalities andpowers ; to obey Ma- gifrates, to be ready to everygood work, to fpeak e- vil of no man , to be no brawlers but gentle, fhewing' all meeknefs to all men. For we otir (elves were forrdetime foolifh $ &c Grace is clean contrary to trra detracting vice. DIRECT. L. Study the Duty of inffríd'f, ing and e chortitg, more than Reproofand findingfault. Thny not but that it is duty to tell a brother of 1. his fault, and to reprove and that with plain- nefs too. 1frlath. 18.15. Lev. 19. 17. And it is but few that do this rightly, of many that will backbite and cenfure. But yet I have long ob- ferved, that many Chrifiians are enquiring, How they muff_ manage the duty of Reproof , who ne- never enquire how to perform the duty of Chri- ftian exhortation or iufiruing of the ignorant. When zas this later is much more ufually a duty than the former ; And you are bound to exhort a multitude whom you are not bound to reprove. And exhortation to good is a duty which the hea- rer is . ufually lefs offended at; It loth not fo much gall and exafperate his mind : It lhameth- him
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