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A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
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not the brethren, by private familiarity and conversing; not the guides, ⟨p. 276⟩by their remissness, suffering him to abide in the society whom they ought to expel and cast out. He might decree and command, that when they were assembled together in the name of Christ, they should deliver him to Satan, some by their authority derived from Christ, whereunto the rest must give free and willing consent. It pertained unto them all to endeavour his casting forth, but to every man in his order: to the officers, to cast him forth by their authority; to the faithful, by admonition, sorrow, free consent, and just indignation, if upon rebuke he did not testify repentance. It concerned the people as well as the priests to put away leaven out of their houses, and so every man was to put leaven out of his own house, and every Christian man and woman is to purge sin out of their hearts, and do their endeavour to reform others: But if this be applied to the purging and casting forth of the incestuous man, then it must be remembered, that similitudes hold not in every thing: For otherwise every particular man and woman in Corinth, being a member of that society, had authority of himself actually to thrust out the incestuous person, which is directly contrary to the Apostles admonition. For when they were assembled together in the name of Christ, the Apostle willeth them to deliver up to Satan him that had done that wicked deed. He designeth none other author of this sentence but the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name, that is, by whose authority and commandment received from him, he would have it to be administered. ⟨p. 277⟩For nothing can be done prosperously in the church unless all things we undertake be ordered according to the prescript of the chief and supreme Lawgiver. But God never gave authority to every particular believer, two or three, to thrust every notorious offender out of the congregation, as he charged every master of a family to put away leaven out of his house. By the power of Christ is understood the incommunicable power or virtue of Christ, whereby he worketh powerfully by his Spirit in the ministry of the word, and confirmeth the sentence of the church rightly pronounced, according to his promise;1
not the brethren, by private familiarity and conversing; not the guides, ⟨p. 276⟩