# Of Shunning.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF SHUNNING.



Since daily intercourse and mingling with ungodly
apostates, in common eating, drinking, buying, selling,
and similar unnecessary temporal or worldly
transactions, is not only dangerous for the pious,
who, thereby, may become contaminated, or be
counted as companions of the apostate, but is also
hurtful to the apostate himself, since he, through
such mingling, may probably harden in sin, and
esteem his offense of less consequence, therefore, we
understand from the word of God, that—in order to
avoid, according to the unction of the Spirit, the
dangers of sin, and offenses, and to bring the apostate
sinner to shame and repentance—the true members
of Christ must withdraw from the daily intercourse
and communion with impenitent apostates;
must shun them, and have nothing to do with them;
and this without respect to persons, as far as they
are not bound to the apostate by any command of
God; for as one may do anything in the matter of
shunning, which is contrary to love, benevolence,
Christian propriety and justice, which supreme virtues
a Christian is in duty bound to show unto all
men, even to his enemies, for which purpose God
has given all laws, which may, for no reason, be diminished,
much less, broken or transgressed. 1 Cor.
5:5; 2 Tim. 2:21; 2 Thess. 3; Tit. 3; 2 Thess.
3:14; 2 Pet. 1:6; Tit. 2:12; Rom. 13:8; Matt.
5:44; Rom. 13:9,10; 1 Tim. 1:5; Rev. 22:19;
Matt. 5:19; James 2:1.





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