54,The partiality ofmews Tract-tic-al judgement in their ern; Cafe others lefk they lute their love can like to have a Minifler or another do it : For that doth not put them to deny them- felves. a 2. Nay take a fcandalous profeffor,that is drawn to publike Confellion as a Bear to the Stake, and if it were another mans cafe, he would think it but reafonAle and meet, and would per- (wade him to it. If another had committed the fame fin againft God as he bath done, or had flandered, or wronged him, and would freely, without urging, confefs in the Congregation with tears in his eyes that he bath finfully provoked God, and offended the Church , and wronged his Brother, and laid a aumbling block in the way of the ungodly, and the weak, and difhonoured his holy profellion, and is never able to make fatisfaftion for Inch heinous fins, and is unworthy any more to be a member of the Church, and to have any Commmunion with Quilt or them ; and fhould earnefily intreat them to par_ don him, and pray for him, and retain him in their Communi- on, and intreat God to pardon him ; Would not the flander by think this were well done, and a better way to his recovery then to refufe it ? And all is, becaufe that Self is not touched in another mans cafe ; unlefs he apprehend it like to become his own ; and then he may be againfi it, and (corn at this, as too peecife a Courfe. 13. Take alfo the extortioner, or any man that bath de- frauded or injured another ; and that will not be perfwaded to make Reflitutionof all that be bath got anaifs : and let this man hear of the cafeof Zachetee, and he will fay, It was well done Or let anothers cafe be propounded to him, and he can tell them that [ReflitutionU thefafefl way : whatever it cog yosi,its fit that every man fbonldhave ht awn.] Self will give him free leave to content to another mans Iteflitution ; but not to his own. Moreover ; Suppofe that perfecution were afoot, and a manmolt either knowingly fin againft God, or lofe his Hate, and part with all that he bath in the world, and burn at a Stake for thecaufe of Chriec ; The felfifhunfanaiaed perfon will not be perfwaded that this is his duty, or at leaf}, he will not be perfwaded to fubmit to it : He cannot fuffer, nor burn : He will tcufl God with his foul, rather then men with his body; (as fuch
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