Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 4:21
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1 Corinthians4:21
21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? .
Which will ye rather chuse? that I should come unto you as a father cometh to his child under some guilt for which he must punish and correct him, or as a father cometh to his child that hath done nothing provoking his displeasure, in love and meekly? I am not willing to come to you to correct and punish any of you by Ecclesiastical censures, which are a rod which Christ hath betrusted to me, I had rather come in love and meekness, that we might mutually rejoice in each others society.
Marginal references: 2 Cor. 10.2. & 13.10.
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