r- theEpifitls to the Galatiaat. . Chap.6. 473) omittcd;fpecially ifitbe fo farrefrom bettering the partie, that I it tnakehimmuch worfe.Salomonfaith, Hewhich iniratleth a f orner,gettethhimfefe reproach,andhe that reprooaetb a.wicked M411 purchafth tohimflfeablare , Prouer.9.- 7. And then he 1 5 addesin the next Yak, Rebukenotafcorner,Ieaßhehatetee,re- 1 buke awife man &he willlow thee. And vercly it were great fol. ly to fpend labour invainc,in tellingthcm oftheir faults, when ourfchoolingwill not better them, but incenfe them more and more:It were better to be filent,or to feparate from them, then Yo to flirre vpharncts,orto thruft our hands intoa wafps neat'. It is is well Paidofone , that he which fha11 beUowe the feeds of md:¢r, wholfo.me admonitions on filch curled and vnprofitablc ground,!hall reaps nothingfor his panics , but the thornes of mockes and reproches. i ,I5 It will be faid,the.Iudge ceafeth not topuni(} malefafìours, though they benot bettered by the punifhmcnt; thereforefee- ; ing brotherlycorre&ion is commanded , it muff not be omit. ! tcd,though the party reprooued be not bettered, but offended' thcreby,andmade worfe. I anfwer, the reafon is nothing like, I 201 for the iudge inptrnifhing, doth principally intend thegood Ì. of the common wealth, which commeth by chaf-Iifìrig , or by . cuttingoffmalefaEìours , though they themfel:ucs be nothing bettered:but the endofreproofe, is the amendment, and good 1 ofhim that is reprooued :thereforea man may not be reproo. 52 ued,except it be for his privategood, though the magiffratej may punifhhim,in regard ofthc;comme n,good. I V. Reproofe may be omitted , if it be ccrtaine that the ¡ partie will either prefently redreffe his fault without.r.eproofe: or that Tome others will admonifhhim thereof, whorne it doth 30 more neerely concerne. As the pining, of aimes maybeomit- ted, ifit beccrtaine.that the partie that is in want will prouide for himfelfe,or that hewill be fufliciently relciuedby others. V. Ifit maybedone moreconuenientlr and profitably an-, othertime,it may beomitted for the time. Except in their fine i 35 cafes, he that loth not reproaue: bis brother., isguiltic of his finne,Lcuit. 5. r . III I. Point. !n what mannerare men tobe reprooued? Themanner tobeobferued in reproouing, Iwill lay. downe in tenne rules. I. man milli foreproouehis brother , as that it maybe. Cc cc 3 mull
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