A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

A. 1. From the fellowship the true Members of the church have with Christ, 1 Joh. 1.4. therefore when you see a spirit of with-drawing from the fellowship of the church, they depart from the Apostles Doctrine, and if from them, then from Christ, for surely our fellowship is with God, and with the Son, therefore to prevent that denying of Christ, he gives them charge that they do not forsake assembling themselves, &c. Heb. 10.25. to 29. A finger cut off from the hand, is not only cut off from the hand but from the head too; so if men fall off from the Members, they will also fall off from Christ the Head.

A. 1. From the fellowship the true Members of the church have with Christ, 1 Joh. 1.4. therefore when you see a spirit of with-drawing from the fellowship of the church, they depart from the Apostles Doctrine, and if from them, then from Christ, for surely our fellowship is with God, and with the Son, therefore to prevent that denying of Christ, he gives them charge that they doe not forsake assembling themselves, &c. Heb. 10.25. to 29. A finger cut off from the hand, is not only cut off from the hand but from the head too; so if men fall off from the Members, they will also fall off from Christ the Head.

Use 1. Seems to inform our judgements what to think in case of separation, for this place is much abused; The Papists they build on this place that they that separate from their church are Antichrists. That company, say they that break off from the fellowship of the church is Antichristian▪ as it is plain here; now what were Calvin and Luther, but such as brake off from the fellowship of the church, therefore they were of Antichrists spirit, and fore-runners of him.