SECT. VII.
- Quest. 1 Whether a Heathen may not be admonished?
- Quest. 2 Whether Admonition be alike to be given to all.
Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...
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Quest 1: Whether a Heathen may not be admo∣nished?
In re••ard that the Scripture calls upon us to admonish a Brother, we are not altogether to neglect any of whom we have h••pes of b••••••ering of what professio•• soever he be. For,
- 1 By nature, all men are our Brethen, we are all of one sto••k and kind, as through that relation may admonish him when he doth offend.
- 2 By providence, the Heathen Turke or Jew, may be our neighbour, and upon that relation he may be admonished, at least as to civil crimes, and as far as you can do good in spiritual, but if he will not hear, never bring it before the Church, since she judgeth none that are without, 1 Corinth. 5.12, 13.
- 3 By Law he may be our kinsman, and this will lay a more particular engagment upon us to give him our best ad∣vice in things that may conduc•• unto his good, b••t for the making of any judiciall processe for reclaiming of him in an Ecclesiastical way it is not to be done, the Church leaving such wholly to the judgment of God.
When the Scripture calls upon us to reprove a Brother, it holds out, that above all others we should most heed a Christian, not that altogether we should neglect any in whom we see the least hope of good.
Quest. 2. Whether admonition be alike to be given to all.
Though admonition be to be dispenced and given to all without ex∣ceptions,
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yet it is not to be given without respect of persons? we shall lay down several distinctions, and so close this chapter.
- 1 Betwixt age and age, we ought to have a respect to gray hairs, and reverence the hoary head.
- 2 Betwixt person and person, some are of a more bashfull and good nature then others.
- 3 Betwixt calling and calling, some are Ministers of the Gospel, some not. We ought to behold him as a Father.
- 4 Betwixt sin and sin, there are degrees of sin, and there are degrees of temptation, which the wife reprover is to observe.