de.verb:dom. Seraa,.t6. ehap.F. AComvtsentarie trtp watchmers,Ezech:.3 3. and 3,5. Andifthey doenotftrengthen the weake, Neale theficke, bindvp the broken , bring agame thin which w&dritten away, norfeeke that which is loft, &c, he will requirehW fbeepe at their hank. Ezech. 3 4. v.4.t o. Paul .inioynes the Pa. flours ofthe Church of Ephefus , that they/hog/duke heede to $ then,felctet, and to theflockwhereof theholy Ghefi hadmade them o&erfeert. ACE zo. 23. and he commandeth Timothie that he' fhouldbe in/tant infeafonandout of feafon ;:hat he/hoarldimprooue, rehnke , exhort , with alllong.faffertnganddotlrine, 2. Tim. 4.2, and Titus, that ht rebuke andexhort with all anthoritie.Tit.113 Further, it is tobeobferued, that though all men are bound! to reprooue their neighbours if theyoffend, yet in f uccafes; they are not bound. I. If a manbe ignorant of the offence. For a man that re. 15 prooueth another , mull be caten of the fault , otherwife he dothpurchafe tohimfclfea blot : and private perlons are not topic into others mens.atlions, that fo they may haue matter i to reprooue. Prou. 24.. r S For we arc bound to reprooue as we arc bound to gitecalmes e nowwe arenot bound in gluing 20 alines to feeke force , towho=we may glue;. if we giue to thofe whome wetneete, that fland in neede of our alma, we hauedone our dutie. The like is in rcproofes. And although reproofe be a debt whichwe oweour neighbour ; yet it is no debt due toany private perfon (for then we were bound to 25 'lcarchout thepantie, and difcharge the debt) but it is a publike' elebt,which weowe to all : and therefore it isnot neceflaricwe fho>ald lecke them out. If we difcharge it to thole we meete withal!, it is fufficient. S. Artgu/line faith well, Admonet dominut non negli ere initem peecata noftranon gncrenda quod reprehen. ;# d.ta, fedvidendo laideorrsgaa. 1 I. Ifhe haue repented of his facî , he is not tobereproo. ued,for the end of reproofe is to reclaime him ; therefore if he be reclaimed already, there is no place left for reproofe: al though themagiaratemay punifh and corral him in regard 35 ofthe commongood. 1 I;I. Aman is not to reprooue , if he be certaine his re- proofc will doenogood:for when the ende ceafeth , all things *ding to theend do llkewife ccare;therfore ifthere be no hope of amendrnent(whicb is the endeofreproofc)reproofc is tobe onaitte
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