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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45344	A sermon preached at Mercers-Chappel, on the 13th of January, 1688/9 by Timothy lord bishop of Oxford.	Hall, Timothy, 1637?-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing H444; ESTC R42065	24,800	45

good and so great evil comes of it But the most general and proper reading of the words is as in our ordinary Translation Thou shalt not connive at him and thereo● embolden him to continue in his sin augmenting the heap and number of his Transgressions but shalt put a stop to him by seasonable and timely Reprehension Let no man tell me this is meer Morality and prejudice himself against the benefit he should reap As God in his Law so Christ in his Gospel doth peremptorily exact and call for our compliance with this Precept in several places If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault Mat. 18.15 Warn them that are unruly 1 Thes 5.14 They are said to be full of Goodness who have the ability to admonish one another Rom. 15.14 Ye count him as an enemy whom you will not admonish as a brother 2 Thes 3.15 Reprove the unfruitful works of darkness Eph. 5.11 It was a Law in Israel That a man should not see his Brothers Ox or Ass fall down by the way and hide himself from them Doth God take care for Oxen nay for us are these things written But alas we are fallen into those latter days spoken of by our Blessed Saviour wherein iniquity should increase and the love of many wax cold What a sinful bashfulness doth attend us sneaking shamefully from our work and duty of Reproof when an hellish impudence is in some profligate Wretches that with open face and brazen brow daily make breaches on God's Royal Law How quietly and unconcernedly can we see some violent sinners upon a full career in the broad way of Destruction and never attempt to stop them or throw in a bar or block to abate the swiftness of their feet tho it be to the shedding of their own blood Is this consistent with the Love of God with the love of thy brother's invaluable soul or the happiness and security of thine own Having by this short Paraphrase taken off what of mist and darkness might surround the Words I should descend to an Enquiry into several Particulars each of which would require more time to discourse of than usually is allotted to Exercises of this nature yet I shall not totally omit them As 1. I should state the nature of this Duty and shew you wherein it doth consist 2. On whom this Duty is most principally incumbent 3. I shall demonstrate the great Necessity and Reasonableness of it 4. I shall lay down some Rules and Directions how to manage it successfully 5. I shall lastly Apply it In short for the First Particular I shall only take notice of Three Words in the Scripture which sufficiently express the nature of Reprehension 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A striking and beating of one It denotes the vehemency and earnestness of Reproof The Gravity of some mens Persons and the Eminency of their Station do exempt them from blows of this nature you may read the Supersedeas which some men have 1 Tim. 5.1 Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father have respect to his Office and deal not rigidly with him 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a more mild and gentle kind of increpation yet join'd with some Acrimony and tartness of Speech 2 Cor. 2.6 Thus Peter rebuked Christ Mark 8.32 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bare minding and remembring a putting of the Mind in order by Advertisement and Admonition This is the most fair and favourable course the most likely to prove successful that which primarily is to be used the other only in extremities The Schoolmen give many definitions of it and the Ancient Fathers abound with variety of Illustrations telling us that great is the Affinity between Soul and Body both as to their Diseases and Remedies That which Physick is to the Body Reprehension is to the Soul and the same rule and method must be observed in the application of the means of Cure. They reckon up three Parts of Physick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Diet Medicines and Chyrurgery all which by way of Analogy and Proportion are to be used in the Cure of Spiritual Distempers Clemens Alexandrinus compares them together 1. Admonition he says is the Diet of the Soul forbidding that which is simply hurtful or contrary to the disposition of the Patient and affording strong and wholesome nourishment 2. Reproof is a Medicinal Potion that hath always attending of it a tang of bitterness which purgeth out the Morbifick Matter and all peccant Humors and Corruptions of the Soul and is a great Restorative 3. Rebuke if sharp and keen is the spiritual Chyrurgery which sometimes is to be used cuttingly with a sharp Point and Edge Intemperans aeger crudelem facit Medicum Salt upon some occasions must be rubb'd and chaf'd into some sores and wounds In short Brotherly correption consists in giving our Brethren necessary instructions in matters they are ignorant of in letting them have timely notice of their sinful Affections and Inclinations and in a total breaking off our intimacy of conversation and society with them if they prove stubborn and incorrigible stopping their ears against all wise Charms I proceed now to the II. Particular To shew who are the Persons mostly concerned in the discharge of this Duty The better to understand this you must know that Divines generally distinguish Reproof into Ministerial and by way of Authority and Fraternal by way of Charity 1. Ministers admonish by way of Office. The truth is the work of Reproof belongs in some sort to all men who have the use of Reason because it is a natural Precept and a work of Mercy a general Office due from one neighbour to another Hence Infidels may reprove Believers so Abimelech reproved Sarah Gen. 20.15 Thus Inferiors may reprove their Superiors provided it be done with Modesty and Reverence But principally this Duty is incumbent on three sorts of Persons 1. On such who in regard of Office are obliged to take the charge and care of others as Ministers and Dispensers of the Divine Oracles are 2. On such who are engaged by bonds of Nature and their Relative Stations and Capacities thus Patents and Masters stand more especially concerned 3. On such who are qualified and fitted with Parts and Gifts to perform this Office with success 1. It is a principal part of our Ministry to rebuke Among Christ's Disciples one was stiled a Son of Thunder and what was said of St. Basil ought to be the Character of every faithful Steward in God's House That he thunder'd in his Doctrine and lighten'd in his Life If we look through all the Old Testament you will find that most of the Prophets Messages were severe Rebukes and Threatnings The Jews call the Book of Deuteronomy the Book of Objurgations and that Section which beginneth Deut. 28.15 they call the Section of Objurgations The necessity of this Duty is such to us that God will require the blood of the People at the hands of their