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The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…
The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations upon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrews : together with certain other meditations and discourses upon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles whereof immediately precede the book : being the sum of diverse sermons preached in S. Gregory's London / by Thomas Adams ...The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ hath endowed her considered in some contemplations vpon part of the 12. chapter of the Hebrewes : together with certain other meditations and discourses vpon other portions of Holy Scriptures, the titles wherof immediately precede the booke : being the summe of diuerse sermons preached in S. Gregories London / by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by G.P. for John Grismand, 1619London: printed by G.P. for Iohn Grismand, 1619
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2. Whether a separation may be justly made from our Church for some errors or corruptions of life. I know that divers, who were once among us, never of us, have put out their own lights, indeed excommunicated themselves. What's their plea? that our assemblies are full of enormities. I answer, that the defects and corruptions of a Church must be distinguished: they are either in doctrine or in manners. For doctrine, some errors are Citra fundamentum, some Circa fundamentum, others Contra fundamentum. Errors beside the foundation trouble, errors about the foundation shake, errors against the foundation overturn all. So long then as no foundation is harmed, it is not lawful depart. until the Church separates from Christ, we must not separate from it. In two cases there is warrant of separation. First, when the substance of Gods worship is quite corrupted. nWhat agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? when this is, ver. 17. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, when Jeroboam had set up Idols in Israel, othe Priests and the Levites left their suburbs and possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem. Secondly, when the substance of ⟨p. 67⟩doctrine is quite corrupted. pIf any man consent not to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, &c. From such, vers. 5. withdraw thy self. Paul in the Synagogue at Ephesus preached for the space of three months together. qBut when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way, he departed from them, and separated the Disciples. In these two cases lawful, not else.
2. Whether a separation may bee iustly made from our Church for some errors or corruptions of life. I know that diuers, who were once among vs, neuer of vs, haue put out their owne lights, indeed excommunicated themselues. What's their plea? that our assemblies are full of enormities. I answer, that the defects and corruptions of a Church must be distinguished: they are eyther in doctrine or in manners. For doctrine, some errors are Citra fundamentum, some Circa fundamentum, others Contra fundamentum. Errors beside the foundation trouble, errors about the foundation shake, errors against the foundation ouerturne all. So long then as no foundation is harmed, it is not lawfull depart. vntill the Church separates from Christ, we must not separate from it. In two cases there is warrant of separation. First, when the substance of Gods worship is quite corrupted.