VBRS.t. An Expqjitlon, with Notes me: We all frand upon the fame level; needlefs and unprofirable cenfuring is but abold ufurpation, and befides the idlmefs of the words, we lhall give an account for theJ'aucinefs of them. ob[trwtt. 3 • 3. Chriftians foould ~ot lljfetl thw mafler/hif over their Bre. . thren. You may admontlh,reprove, warn, btu lt lhould not be in amafierly way. How i~ .rhat? r. When we .do it out of pride . . and felf.conce1t,as conceiVIng your felves mare JUft, holy, wife,&c. c ~o? dmt, ~tt Luk.:_18. I aw not as other men c; htJ- fpeaketh·indefinitely: With \ alraut molcJlz.t · r: Ch · n· [: h · r. fui{Jrt' i[tud prahe a nutan may ay e IS not as 1 ome men? fome are as bruit funt cnim a!i beafis, made to be taken and defiroyed ; and Wtth tbankfulnefs we qui pr·o[ella may acknowledg that God hath not fuffered us to run imo . theexd.emo"llts htt- cefs of their riot: The Pharifee fpeaketh as if he were above eom– \ 1 mana fPem. mon wealmefs; Ga/.6. I. Reft~re with meek._ne{s, conjidertnuyoPJr \ arvatt , um, 1.[ W ll · 1 d · h r fl f £ ·1 ..., vcrfali& n,atu.· J e ves ~ e are~ mvo ve ~n _t et:a~~ uate o r~ra~ ry.: 2. W~n ram [tlftitur l we do IC as vauncmg over the1r mfirmmes and fra1lt1es 1 mabravmg indefinitr~J e- way, rather to !hame, then to refiore them ; as Cham laughed at uu.>uiandtHmiDl. N oahs drunkmne.fs : this doth not argue hatred of chefin, but enet~ Dr a 1' . 11. h ./. ·p l 1 Ch ·fl· Ser·m. Synod v.y, ma tee agama t e,ftrJ o~) au sdtemper was tru y . nman, J>ord Phtl. 3• 17. I have tola. you oJ ten, an now tellyou Wn;mJg, thq · • . ~re entmies of the Crofs ofChrifl. Agood man takerh no ddigh; to rake in a dunghil, others failings cannot ferv~ his mirth and tri– umph; My Soul jha/1 weep fore for your pride infecret plat:es, Jer.13.17. Cenfurts are full of pajfion, bur Cbrifrian Reproofs.of compaffion ; fuch a difference there is between reproving out of pride, and out of love and charity. 3· When the Cenfure is un– merciful, and we remit nothing of excream rigour and fevericy, yea / d~vefi rheaction of thofe exrenuating drcumfiances of' which the matter is capable : the Cenfure lhould be extended no.further. then what may be necelfarily inferred h·om the faCl; jealouGe c"lltð more then is offered, but Charity think,sth no evil, 1 Cor, I 3.. 5. ~ M')l1(t1ca T~ l(,::t.K.~v, it reafoneth no evil; that is, cloth not feel< eo make fins, but c9vtr them ; as when aClion.is c1pable of two intfl~pretations, it cloth not fa!l:en upon chat which is evil, or interpret doubtful things in the wod:t fence, or conclude: a fln from an inevi– cdeot fign; as Eli did fromHannahs fervency, conclude her drunk– mods, I Sam. I .1 4,1 s. or if there be evil in it,it doth not by undue furmifes make i·t worfe ; as judg the heart by the fact, or by one or_ more fingle ACtions inter an habit, or malignity in the offender ; or if that.be vifible, it doth not prej,udg their fu.turecondition: ' Though
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