Guidelines for Church Elders and Discipline

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The Elders that rule well, let them be had in double honour, specially they which labour in the worde and doctrine,

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For the Scripture sayeth, Thou shalt not mousell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne: and, The labourer is worthie of his wages.

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Against an Elder receiue none accusation, but vnder two or three witnesses.

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Them that sinne, rebuke openly, that the rest also may feare.

21

I charge thee before God and the Lord Iesus Christ, and the elect Angels, that thou obserue these thinges without preferring one to an other, and doe nothing partially.

22

Lay handes suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other mens sinnes: keepe thy selfe pure.

23

Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomakes sake, and thine often infirmities.

24

Some mens sinnes are open before hand, and goe before vnto iudgement: but some mens folowe after.

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Likewise also the good woorkes are manifest before hande, and they that are otherwise, cannot be hid.

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