Chapter VII. How the impudent and bashful are to be admonished. ( Admonition 8).  Differently to be admonished are the impudent and the bashful.  For those nothing but hard rebuke restrains from the vice of impudence; while these for the most part a modest exhortation disposes to amendment.  Those do not know that they are in fault, unless they be rebuked even by many; to these it usually suffices for their conversion that the teacher at least gently reminds them of their evil deeds.  For those one best corrects who reprehends them by direct invective; but to these greater profit ensues, if what is rebuked in them be touched, as it were, by a side stroke.  Thus the Lord , openly upbraiding the impudent people of the Jews, saying, There is come unto thee a whore’s forehead; thou wouldest not blush ( Jerem. iii. 3 ).  But again He revives them when ashamed, saying, Thou shalt forget the confusion of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood; for thy Maker will reign over thee ( Isai. liv. 4 ).  Paul also openly upbraids the Galatians impudently sinning, when he says, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you ( Galat. iii. 1 )?  And again, Are ye so foolish, that, having begun in the Spirit, ye are now made perfect in the flesh ( Ibid. 3 )?  But the faults of those who are ashamed he reprehends as though sympathizing with them, saying, I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last ye have flourished again to care for me, as indeed ye did care, for ye lacked opportunity ( Philipp. iv. 10 ); so that hard upbraiding might discover the faults of the former, and a softer address veil the negligence of the latter.