68. That we must depart from him who
lives irregularly and contrary to discipline.
Paul to the Thessalonians: “But we
have commanded you, in the name of Jesus Christ, that ye depart from
all brethren who walk disorderly, and not according to the tradition
which they have received from us.”
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Also in the forty-ninth
Psalm: “If thou sawest a thief, at once thou rannest with
him, and placedst thy portion with the adulterers.”
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2 Thess. iii. 6
. [A very noteworthy safeguard of
apostolic ordinances; but mark the charity with which it is softened,
2 Thess. iii. 14,
15
. Compare also cap.
ii. 15.]
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Ps. l. 28
.