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Rules
how
to deale
with
wicked
men,
vill-
beafl's,
flow- bellies,
this
wimp
is
true
;
wherefore rebuke
them
fharply,
rebuke
them cuttingly
;
Rebuke them
fo
as
even
to cut
:
--
And
you
know
Yohn
who
was
of
fo
loving
a
fpir
it,
having
to
deale with
Diotrephes
faith
he,
If
T
come
I
wi.l
re,
member
his
d'eed's
which
he
doth,
prating againfi
us with
malioioirt
words.
And
Paul
when he had
to deal
with Ehmau,
he looks
upon him and
faith,
0
thou
child
of
the
Devill, &c. And Chritf
when
he had
to deale
with
the
Pharifees,Ogeneration
of viperí.
Now
here lyes
the
skill
of
a
chrifiian,
to
know
how
to deal,and
that
according
to
the
nature of
the
thing fkarply, and not
to be
guilty
of the
nature.
of reviling
;
All that
I
would
do
now
for
the clofe of this exeréife,is but
tohelp:you
CO
deal
with
fuck
as
are
evil(,
either
wicked men, or
profeflors of
Religion,
to
deal
with
them
plainly, and
yet not to
revile,
Thereforethefe
Rules are-to
be obferved.
Firfi,
If
fo
be that
a
man
should
be guilty of
what
is
charged
upon him
by
another, then
I
confefs, though
the other be
never
fo
wicked and
finfull in his
charge,
yet
he
is
to putit
up
pati-
ently,
and not
to
rebuke him
that
is
paffionate
with him,
if
himfelf
be
guilty,..
for
that time
:
As
Shimei comes
to David,
O
thoubloody man,
and
reviles him, yet
David
he
was
under
guiltinefs at that
time,
and his confcience accufed
him, though
Sbimei
did
revile
him
in
faying
fo, having
a
wicked intention=
in
it,
yet
David
would nor
fpeak one
word
;
he
would
not
fay
to
Shimei, why
doti
thou
fay
thus
?
No, he
was
guilty
himfelf,
and
therefore he
dar'd
not
fpeake
a
word, but
was
humbled
under
the
hand
of
God,
if
your confcience
tell.5
you
you are
guilty, take
heed,
though
others should
have an ill
fpi-
rit in
fpeaking evil( of
you,
yet
I
fay,take
heed
of turning
uporr-
him againe.
Second
,
You
muff
not
do
it
prefently. Suppofe
that
any
have
don
.ony
thing
againtf you, and
doneit
wilfully,
and you
are
not
gt
.
t
ty:
Fi
ril,
if
you
be guilty,
then
you are
to
fiy
no-
chill?,
hut our
it
u^,
and
be humbled before
God
:
But
if
you
be no ,
ï v_
rho:n is
is not
fit
prefently to fall
upon him
that
hath
.ccufed
yóu,
you had
need
Confider
of
it,
pray
over
its
ex
your
hearts.
T.lwfe
that
as foone.
as
ever
they-,
hear,
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