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V
E R. IT.
Ephefiana,
Chap.
5.
ÓII
4.
Works
are
rebuked
with works,
perfons with
words.
Rebuke thy brother, therefore
rebuke
not
one out
of
the Church,
tdinfa.
followeth not
, no more then love
thy brother
,
therefore love
no
other.
2.
We
mull diftinguilh
of
rebukes
:
Some are parts or preparative
to
ccnfurc, now
chele
belong
not to
outlawes.
Some
are
offices
of
love which we onely intend for convincement,now thefe are
common
to
all
that
goe affray.
We
fay
that
every one
is
bound
(circumstances confidered)
to
this
a.
duty.
Heathens out
of
fellowfhip
ofthe Church,
arc
not dogs
and [wine
3,
in
the
arid
fignification,
in a
large
they
arc,
as
Chrift
Paid
to the Ca-
naaniti(h
woman, but
in a ft
net
fenfe,he
is
a
dog that bath
left
his evill
way,
and wilfully
returneth
to
it.
Works
as
well
as
perfons
are
convinced with words ; underftand
4.
therefore,
that fach
es
walke
.vs
children
of
light
muff every
way
rehake
the
ways offin.
Bccaufe we
owe love to
thofewithout,
and
ought
to
pray for
them,
ßaÍ°"
t.
and
therefore by proportion
ufe
this or any tuch meane when it
(hall
be
behoovefull.
Not
onely works,
but
words
are
a
piece
of
our
Chriftian walkine.
a.
S.Paal
refcrrech
this,
Phil.
2.15. Walke
in
the
midst
of
a
crooked
3.
generacion,not onely
fhining
as
lights
in
works
,
but holding out the
Word,viz..
as
amongft your
(elves, fo before
them,
fo far
as
you pro
-
phanc
not
a
holy thing.
We
cannot
elfe
have
no
fellowfhip
with them, for fometimenot to
4.
teftife
again
ft
fin in
word,
maketh
us
acceffary
to
fin,Levit.5.t.
Lally,
the
(}ate
of
them
was
not
as
ours,
that
all
in a
family,towne
5.
and nation
did profeffe
the
fame, but
one
fomewbere gathered,all the
refs
of
the
houfhould without ,
the
wife taken ,
the
husband refuting
the
fellow
thip
of
the
Church:
now
it
is
unlike
that
there (called
to
grace)could
keepe
fiknee
in
words,and
teethe
wayes
of
men fo neere
them,
never labouring to convince them even
by Chriflian reproofe.
Such therefore
as
are
the children
of
light
mtft
every way reprove
the works
of
fin;
thus the
lives
of
them
have
done,
as Noah in
his obe-
dience
is
faid
to
condemne the
world, David
by
his
innocent life did
convince Saal,
and gaine
himfelfe
a
good teftimony from the mouth
of
that Tyrant,
s
Sam.24.18.
So
th,e
Apoftle faith,
that to
doe
good
inftead of
evil(,
it
convinceth
attd
maketh the enemies
of
grace
to
blufh,
it
heapeth
coales on
their
heads,
maketh their
cheekes
glow with
penitent flume
:
For
the truth,
and
fo
every
venue doth
thew it
fel'e
and
deteâ
the
contrary,
and
Chriftians
mua
in
word
reprove,
Levit.
59.17. when
it
is
fit,
in
mecknetfe, wifdome and love.
Now
this
doth thew
us
how
we mufflabour
to
walke,
viz.
letting yfe
t.
grace fo(hineout
in
our courfe
that the
wicked may fee
the
wicked
-
ncffeof
their
wayes:
W uldyou
know
how
t
If
you live
with thofe
that
are
covetous,ria
ma
fi
have
your
converfatiot;rithoor
covesonft
eOe.
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