Puritans On Discipline

The nature and end of judgment or sentence must be corrective, but not vindictive; fir healing, not destruction.

—John Owen

There must be great care taken, that when we seek to pluck up the tares, we pluck not up the wheat also; this may be understood of things, of truths and falsehoods, as well as of persons…in respect of things good or evil, there are some things apparently evil, they are rather thistles and briars, than tares; we may freely pluck them up; but other things, though perhaps they may prove evil, yet they have some likeness to good, so as you can hardly

discern whether they be good or evil. Now, saith Christ, take heed what you do then, do not out of eagerness to oppose all evil, to get out every tare, pluck out some wheat too: what if that you oppose with violence as evil, prove to be good? Tou had better let forty tares stand, than pluck up one wheat.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Prudence must be exercised in the proceeding, lest we do more hurt than good…we should deal humbly even when we deal sharply.

—Richard Baxter

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