reproofs

Even in reproofs, admonitions, and acts of discipline, faithful ministers show their love.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

This young stripling of a prophet is made by the power of God as an impregnable city, fortified with iron pillars and surrounded with walls of brass; he sallies out upon the enemy in reproofs and threatenings, and keeps them in awe.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Those wickedly abuse their profession of religion who, under colour of that, call the reproofs given them for their disagreeable conversations blasphemous reflections upon their religion.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Faithful friendly reproofs are here called the reproofs of life, not only because they are to be given in a lively manner, and with a prudent zeal (and we must reprove by our lives as well as by our doctrine), but because, where they are well-taken, they are means of spiritual life, and lead to eternal life, and (as some think) to distinguish them from rebukes and reproaches for well-doing, which are rather reproofs of death, which we must not regard nor be influenced by.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

That of children to parents is rather respect: friendship is nourished by communication, which cannot by reason of the great disparity, be betwixt these, but would rather perhaps offend the duties of nature; for neither are all the secret thoughts of fathers fit to be communicated to children, lest it beget an indecent familiarity betwixt them; nor can the advices and reproofs, which is one of the principal offices of friendship, be properly performed by the son to the father.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 06 Michel de Montaigne 1562

That of children to parents is rather respect: friendship is nourished by communication, which cannot by reason of the great disparity, be betwixt these, but would rather perhaps offend the duties of nature; for neither are all the secret thoughts of fathers fit to be communicated to children, lest it beget an indecent familiarity betwixt them; nor can the advices and reproofs, which is one of the principal offices of friendship, be properly performed by the son to the father.

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

Stern were his reproofs of those who did not wholly abandon themselves to the ecstasy of the rite.

The Sun of the Wolf 2010

These are only few reproofs to the authors of this draft law …

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Stern were his reproofs of those who did not wholly abandon themselves to the ecstasy of the rite.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

He could be vehement and severe in dealing with the vicious and idle, and was unsparing in his reproofs to prelates who forsook their churches and busied themselves at court.

Cardinal Domenico Capranica (1400-1458) 2009