/Confession/Section 43: And every particular member of each church, how excellent, great, or learned soever, is subject to this censure and judgment; and that the church ought not without great care and tenderness, and due advice, but by the rule of faith, to proceed against her members.
Matt. 18:16, 18:17 ; Acts 11:2-3; 1 Tim. 5:19, etc.; Col. 4:17; Acts 15:1-3.