A17599:652
Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VI.
Excommunication is the ajudgement or decree of the bChurch, whereby any cmember of the same Church, for offending the Church by some dgrievous sin, or great econtempt, is given over to fSatan, (according to the charge of gChrist) that is, he is effectually hdeclared to be under the power and dominion of the devil, and to have no right or interest in the kingdom of the Church of Christ: and therefore this man is kept also from the communion iof the Lords Supper, until khe give a probable signification & testimony of his repentance.