A26914:117
The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…
The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom & magistracy under the name of a church & church-government usurped by the Pope, or liberally given him by popish princes opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
38. When a single member falleth into notorious scandal, the Pastor must admonish him, and call him to repentance: and if he remain impenitent and obstinate after due admonition, and public exhortation and patience, he must [as Christs Steward of his Word and Family, pronounce him a person unfit for Church communion, and require or command him in the name of Christ to forbear it, and the Church to forbear his communion, declaring him also unpardoned by Christ till he repent, and binding him over to his judgement.] So that Excommunication is a Sentence of the person as uncapable of Church communion ⟨p. 35⟩according to Christs Laws, and a fore-judging him as unpardoned and condemnable by Christs judgement, unless he repent, and a command to the sinner to forbear the communion and privileges of the Church, and to the Church to avoid him, 1 Cor. 5. Titus 3. 10, &c.
38. When a single member falleth into notorious scandal, the Pastor must admonish him, and call him to repentance: and if he remain impenit•nt and obstinate after due admonition, and publick exhortation and patience, he must [as Christs Steward of his Word and Family, pronounce him a person unfit for Church communion, and require or command him in the name of Christ to forbear it, and the Church to forbear his communion, declaring him also unpardoned by Christ till he rep•nt, and binding him over to his judgement.] So that Excommunication is a Sentence of the person as uncapable of Church communion ⟨p. 35⟩according to Christs Laws, and a fore-judging him as unpardoned and condemnable by Christs judgement, unless he repent, and a command to the sinner to forbear the communion and priviledges of the Church, and to the Church to avoid him, 1 Cor. 5. Titus 3. 10, &c.