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Rules
how to
deale
with
wicked
men.
hear of
any
one
that
accules
them
for
any
evill, prefently
have
foule
Language againfl
them
;
Thele
are they that are
fubjeÓ.l
to
fall
into the
fin
of reviling, inflead of
a
juft defence,
or
re-
prehenfion, of that that
is
evil(
in
others
-.
Thirdly,
You
may
reprove
others for
their
fin,
reprove
them
Charily,
but
it
muff
not be for
their
fin
of
weakneflè, but
there
mull
be force wilifuilneffe
in
the
fin, before. you
doe
re-
prove them
fharply
:
You Ihould Confider,
inch
a
one
is fin -
full, but
is
it
of
weakneflè,
or
of willfullnef
e
?
If
it
be
a
fin
of
weakneffe,
I
mull
pitty them,
I
may
not give
them
any
harm
language at
all ,
as
Chrifl did to Terer,
Avoyd
Saran.
Certain-
ly,
it
was
a
lin
of
weakneflè
in
Peter,when
as
Peter prayed him,
Mafter,
Favour
thy feife
;
he rebukt
him.
with
that Cutting
Terme,
and call'(( him
Satan,
not
that Peter
was.malicious
in
ir,
but
becaufe the
nature of the
thing
that
he fpake had fo
great
evil( in
it,
therefore Chrift
was
the
more
(harp
:
But wheh the
thing
is
of
weaknefle, and
there
is
no
fuch
great
Confequerice
in
-the
nature
ofthe
offence,
then
you ;muff
deale
tenderly;
but
if
there
be
any
word
now
that
bath
mifpleafed
you,
and
prefently
you
goe
and fpeak sharply, you will
turne
to be
a
Reviler.
Fourthly,
If
the
'offence
be
repented
of,then
though
it were
a
great
offence, we mull not -dealt sharply with
any,
whereas
ordinarily
it
is
in
men that
doe revile
the Saints, they
will
re-
vile
then
for
the
leaf} weaktieffe, yea and will
revile them
for.
the
f
nsthat
they
have
repented
of
;
they will bring
up
all
old
things
that
were
in
the time
of
their
ignorance when they
knew
not
God, to
make
them odious
:
But
if it
be
an
offence
that
bath been
repented of ,
as
the Lord
buries
it,
fo
mull
we.
Fifthly ,
If
the
fm
be
a
fecret
fire,
then
we
mull not
reprove
it
before
others,
not
to
give
any hard
language
before others,
if
God
bath
kept
it
fecret,
doe
not
you in
the
prefence of o-
thers"
reveäle
it
;
whereas
thole that are
of
reviling fpirits,
if
they
can 'find
Out
any
thing,
though
never
fo
fecret,
they will
blaze
it prefently,
onely
that
they
might call
a
reproach
upon
fuch
as
they
have
a
love
to
revile.
Sixthly
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