{"id":2754,"date":"2024-03-12T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:11:53","slug":"when-a-pastor-is-more-offended-at-the-reproof-than-his-sin-publish-it-17th-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"When a pastor is more offended at the reproof than his sin&#8230; publish it. (17th cent.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2186\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/34280711966\/\">Star from the Lizard Constellation Credit: ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMany who have undertaken the work of the ministry, do so obstinately proceed in self-seeking, negligence, pride, and other sins, that it is become our necessary duty to admonish them. If we saw that such would reform without reproof, we would gladly forbear the publishing of their faults. But when reproofs themselves prove so ineffectual, that they are more offended at the reproof than at the sin, and had rather that we should cease reproving, than that themselves should cease sinning, I think it is time to sharpen the remedy. For what else should we do? To give up our brethren as incurable were cruelty, as long as there are further means to be used.\u201d \u2015 Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 17th century<\/p>\n<p>chuck degroat @chuckdegroat on X (Twitter.com)\u00a0 March 9, 2024\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chuckdegroat\/status\/1766587744459927864\">Publish<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"quoteText\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star from the Lizard Constellation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}