A26897:159
Church concord
Church concord containing I. a dissuasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.Church concord containing I. a disswasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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Obj. 1. Cor. 5, 4, 13. The Church is commanded to deliver the Incestuous person to Satan, and to put away the wicked person from among them.] Ans. 1. That was but Executively, Paul having himself most solemnly past the Sentence, v. 3, 4. [For I verily as absent in Body, but present in Spirit, have judged already as though I were present concerning him that hath so done this deed, (Paul you see doth judge: And that) in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, (What then doth he decree to do?) with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one to Satan, &c.] which with the Excommunication, it is most probable contained a Corporal miraculous penalty (as Elimas was struck blind, and Ananias and Sapphira dead, &c.) so that [to deliver] is the act that Paul himself resolved to perform, at their meeting: The Text [[Greek or Hebrew]] is not [I have judged concerning him,] but [I have judged him] even [[Greek or Hebrew], &c.] [to deliver such a one.] But if any will rather take [delivering] here to be the Churches act than Pauls, yet it is plain that it is after his Judgment or Sentence, or [Condemnation] as the Syriac hath it; and therefore that it is but, 1. The solemn declaration. 2. And Execution of the sentence already past.
Obj. 1. Cor. 5, 4, 13. The Church is commanded to deliver the Incestuous person to Satan, and to put away the wicked person from among them.] Ans. 1. That was but Executively, Paul having himself most solemnly past the Sentence, v. 3, 4. [For I verily as absent in Body, but present in Spirit, have judged already as though I were present concerning him that hath so done this deed, (Paul you see doth judge: And that) in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, (What then doth he decree to do?) with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one to Satan, &c.] which with the Excommunication, it is most probable contained a Corporal miraculous penalty (as Elimas was struck blind, and Ananias and Saphira dead, &c.) so that [to deliver] is the act that Paul himself resolved to perform, at their meeting: The Text [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] is not [I have judged concerning him,] but [I have judged him] even [〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c.] [to deliver such a one.] But if any will rather take [delivering] here to be the Churches act than Pauls, yet it is plain that it is after his Judgment or Sentence, or [Condemnation] as the Syriack hath it; and therefore that it is but, 1. The solemn declaration. 2. And Execution of the sentence already past.