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8. But perhaps it is the rigour of their Church discipline that maketh you offended with those that you count too pure and precise: because they will not let other men alone, but are reproving them, and bringing them to open penitence and confession of their open sins, and casting those out of the Communion of the Church, which do refuse it. Answ. But do they do this of themselves, or doth God command it them? Do you think that the Communion of Saints, is to be turned into a rabble of impiety? and the Church into a swine-sty? Do you not know that the Canons of the ancient Churches for many hundred years after Christ, are stricter in this Discipline by far, then those that now offend you by their strictness? And hear what he Holy-Ghost •aith. Lev. 19. 17. [Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy […]: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and […].] Matth. 18. 15. 16, 17. [If thy broth•• […] t•ll him his fault between thee and […] gained thy brother. But if […] thee one or two more, that […] every word may be established: And if […] unto the Church; but if he neglect […] the Church, let […] be unto thee as an Heathen mar or a […].] • Cor. 5. For I verily at absent in body but present in ••irit, have judged already as though I were present concerning him that hath done this deed, that in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus—Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven—Now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, ⟨p. 95⟩or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one no •ot to eat—therefore put away from among your selves the wicked person.]