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What
fruite
it
bath
to
witne/fe againfl
evillin
word and
deede,
it
brin_
geth
men to
the
fight
of
their
fnne,
or
maketh
a
difcovery
of
finne,
which
ù
aflep
to
salvation
:
the power
of
reproofe
is
fet
downe,
a
Cor.
rq.
25.
and solomoncalleth
reprehenfion,
a
thing
that giveth
life,
Prov.
15.
3
r
.
Theeare
that
heareth the
reproofe
of
life,
abideth among the wife.
For
an
holy
life, fuch
is
the power of it, that
it
driveth
frnners
to
ad-
miration,
and gaineth
them without
the
word,
convincing them
that
they
are Man evill
way,
and making
them
fee
that which
is
accepta-
ble. This
is
a
great benefit, for
finnes
difcovered are not fo dange-
rous,
as
rockes,
which
hang
like
mountaines before
the Mariners,are
not
fo fcarcfull
as
thofe which
lye
fo covered with (hallow waters
that they
cannot be difcerned.
The
which fhould
make
us in
love
with
thofe
things
to
bee
every
way reproved,
we love
them
that
doe launce
us and
bind
us
fome-
time,
and give
us
ficke
phyficke,
and
count it mercy
in
them
:
So
we
fhould
count
thofe
things
even to be
reproved,mercy,
for
it
is
helpefull
to
the
fouls
:
we fhould delight
in
their companies that
we may finde
it.
The
tare that
heareth
reproofe
bringing life,
will
lodge
with
the
pru-
dent.
And
it
mull
make us,
if
we would have
thofe
we live
with
,
fee
their evill,that they may returne
and
be faved, we mull
fo live
and fo
fpeake
that their
courfe may
be
reproved
:
if
you fhould fpic
difeafes
deadly, growing on your wives or children,
fhould
you not tell
them,
you
fhould
murder them
:
fo
you
fhall be foule-
flayers,
if
you doe not
open
fuch difeafes
in
their
foules
,
the
end
whereof
will
be de-
ftruétion.
Doe
not for your
cafe in
the
flefh
partake
in
their finnes,
faying,
there
will be no quiet elfe;
this
is
to draw
a
curtaine,
that they
fhall
never
fee
what
hearts they have, till there be no place
for me-
dicine.
For that
which
Both
make
things
manifefi
is
light.
]
the
reafon
why
we wereto reprove went
before: now followeth the
proofe of
either
thing
fct downe..
r. Of
the Iatter,that they
are
manifefted
of
light.
2.
Of this, that
this
light
fhineth
by
meanes of reproofe,:
The
latter
is
proved from the nature
of
that which
muff make ma-
nifefl, it
muff
be light
:
the
former
is
proved thus,
that
God himfelfe
by paling
reproofe,
loth
let the
light
of
Chrifl
Thine
to us, therefore
reproofe bath light going with it, whereby things
are
manifefted.
The
firft
doth
let
us
fee, What
is
the nature
of
light,
whether
of
good
example
or
deClrine
it
cloth
reveale
the
things
where
it
commeth,which
be-
fore are hidden.
For light doth not onely
comfort, the light
of
the eye
the
rejoycing
of
the heart, nor direël,but maketh difcovery
of
things
which
in
darkeneffe are
not difcerned,
as
if
there were twenty
things
in
a
darke
corner, which
one could
not
fee,
bring
a
candle,
all are
dif-
cerned
:
fo
the darke corner
of
the
confcience
which
is
darks and
fluttifh, bring the light
of
the
Word,
of
a
holy
converfation to
Ihineto
it,
and
the fecret filthineffeswill
be
manifefted.
Why
Doti,
fife
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