Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his…

1. That we un-Church not a Church, when that is not to be found upon it; for which the Lord hath declared they are un-Churched; nor before he doth un-Church them. Some Errors in doctrine, formality, luke-warmness, departure from first-love, doth not un-Church a Church rightly Constituted. These things were found in the Churches of Corinth, Ephesus, Laodicea, &c. yet at the same time true Churches of Christ: The latter are owned, writ to by Christ as such, as the former was by the Apostle of the Gentiles, when yet these evils were found amongst them, 1 Cor. 1. 2 Cor. 2. Rev. ch. 23.

1. That we un-Church not a Church, when that is not to be found upon it; for which the Lord hath declared they are un-Churched; nor before he doth un-Church them. Some Errors in doctrine, formallity, luke-warmness, departure from first-love, doth not un-Church a Church rightly Constituted. These things were found in the Churches of Corinth, Ephesus, Laodicea, &c. yet at the same time true Churches of Christ: The latter are own'd, writ to by Christ as such, as the former was by the Apostle of the Gentiles, when yet these evils were found amongst them, 1 Cor. 1. 2 Cor. 2. Rev. ch. 23.

2. That 'tis the Duty of particular Believers, upon the un-Churching a Church, to join themselves to some other Church; or if a number sufficient of themselves so to do, to form themselves into a body, or Church of Christ; for otherwise they disobey, and offer an open affront to the authority of Christ in that great Gospel-appointment of his, and ⟨p. 11⟩so indeed lift up themselves against his Kingly Sovereignty over them.