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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
§. 43. What this Discipline is, is opened before: It is described by Christ in Matth. 18. If thy brother trespass against thee, tell him his fault between thee and him, If he hear thee thou hast won thy brother. If he hear thee not, take with thee two or three: If he hear not them, tell the Church: If he hear not the Church, let him be to thee as a Heathen or a publican] Serious convincing admonition must be used (with due patience) to bring a sinner to repentance. And more public admonition after private; And the person sentenced unfit for Christian Communion, when refusing all he showeth himself utterly impenitent. And he must be reconciled, absolved and received when he giveth the Church just proof of his true repentance.
§. 43. What this Discipline is, is opened before: It is described by Christ in Matth. 18. If thy brother trespass against thee, tell him his fault between thee and him, If he hear thee thou hast won thy brother. If he hear thee not, take with thee two or three: If he hear not them, tell the Church: If he hear not the Church, let him be to thee as a Heathen or a publican] Serious convincing admonition must be used (with due patience) to bring a sinner to repentance. And more publick admonition after private; And the person sentenced unfit for Christian Communion, when refusing all he sheweth himself utterly impenitent. And he must be reconciled, absolved and received when he giveth the Church just proof of his true repentance.
§. 44. 1. It is a great corruption of this Discipline, when it is exercised by Lay-Chancellors or other Lay-men, to whom the Keys of the Church-Government were never committed by Christ.
§. 44. 1. It is a great corruption of this Discipline, when it is exercised by Lay-Chancellors or other Lay-men, to whom the Keyes of the Church-Government were never committed by Christ.