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The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and…
The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and the Lords prayer, and, II, more largely in a profession taken out of the Holy Scriptures, containing 1, the articles of the Christian belief, 2, our consent to the gospel covenant, 3, the sum of Christian duty, according to the primitive simplicity, purity, and practice, fitted to the right instruction of the ignorant, the promoting of holiness, and the charitable concord of all true believers ... / by Richard Baxter.
London : s.n., 1660
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63. Those persons that by more private means will not be brought to necessary ⟨p. 65⟩Repentance and Reformation, must by the Pastor be publicly reproved and admonished before the Church, and there called to Repentance by the opening of their sin, and the judgements of the Lord, and pleading with them those Gospel mercies and motives that should melt them into contrition. And if the success do not appear, it is ordinarily meet that the Church should join in prayer for the offender, that God would give him repentance unto life.
63. Those persons that by more private means will not be brought to necessary ⟨p. 65⟩Repentance and Reformation, must by the Pastor be publikely reproved and admonished before the Church, and there called to Repentance by the opening of their sin, and the judgements of the Lord, and pleading with them those Gospel mercies and motives that should melt them into contrition. And if the success do not appear, it is ordinarily meet that the Church should joyn in prayer for the offender, that God would give him repentance unto life.
64. If after sufficient waiting in the use of these means, the offender still remain impenitent, it is the duty of the Church to reject him out of their communion. Wherein the Pastors must compassionately declare his offence and his Impenitency, and the Judgements that God hath threatened to such, and the Laws of Christ commanding the Church to put such from among them, and avoid them, and have no company with them, that they may be ashamed, or to take them as Heathen men or Publicans: and must accordingly declare the person offending to be unmeet for Christian Communion, and charge the people to avoid him, and have no fellowship with him, and himself to forbear the Communion of Christians, binding him over to answer it at the bar of ⟨p. 66⟩