A26886:962
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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2. But if all this were unproved, yet still it is sufficient to our purpose in hand, that the Church-Guides are at present bound to Excommunicate them. And sure they cannot at one and the same time be bound to cast out him and take in his child upon his Right into the number of Christians.
Its Objected, The Excommunicate are members under cure. Ans. Those that are but pro tempore suspended from some particular acts or parts of communion, are so; and those that are only cast out of an Incorporated Church, and not the Universal, or from among Christians as Christians. But for the rest that are so cast ⟨p. 294⟩out, the case is otherwise. Many different acts of the Church, and cases of the persons, are usually confounded under this one word [Excommunication.]
Its Objected, The Excommunicate are members under cure. Ans. Those that are but pro tempore suspended from some particular acts or parts of communion, are so; and those that are only cast out of an Incor•orated Church, and not the Universal, or from among Christians as Christians. But for the rest that are so cast ⟨p. 294⟩out, the case is otherwise. Many different acts of the Church, and cases of the persons, are usually confounded under this one word [Excommunication.]
Object. Austin complains of one that had Excommunicated one Classicanus, and with him his whole Family; which he dislikes, because the son must not suffer for the fathers sin.