A25291:1307
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
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.
21. When the thing it self may suffer delay, it is agreeable to Scripture and reason, that excommunication be first begun by suspension or abstension from the Supper, and such like privileges of the Church, which is wont to be called the lesser excommunication.
21. When the thing it selfe may suffer delay, it is agreeable to Scripture and reason, that excommunication be first begun by suspension or abstension from the Supper, and such like priviledges of the Church, which is wont to be called the lesser excommunication.
22. Yet we must not stay in this degree, but by this means and in this space repentance is to be urged, and there being no hope of it, we must proceed at length to a complete severing from the Communion of the faithful, which is wont to be called the greater Excommunication.
22. Yet wee must not stay in this degree, but by this meanes and in this space repentance is to be urged, and there being no hope of it, we must proceede at length to a compleat severing from the Communion of the faithfull, which is wont to be called the greater Excommunication.
23. But because an obstinate sinner cannot be separated from the faithful, unless the faithful be separated from him, and this also maketh for their wholesome shame. 2. Thess. 3. 14. Therefore they who are lawfully excommunicated are to be avoided of all Communicants, not in respect of duties simply moral, or otherwise necessary, but in respect of those parts of conversation which are wont to accompany approbation and inward familiarity. Os, orare, vale, conviva, mensa, negate. With the secluded, neither confer, nor pray, Salute, nor feast, nor eat with day by day.