Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

Learned men conclude, That here is an allusion to the Jewish manner of Excommunication; of which there were three sorts or degrees; The Lesser. The Middle Sort. The Greatest.

1. The Lesser, called Niddui, Put out; and in the New Testament they were called, [Greek or Hebrew], Put out of the Synagogue; and they hold that Cain was excommunicated this way.

1. The Lesser, called Niddui, Put out; and in the New Testament they were called, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Put out of the Synagogue; and they hold that Cain was excommunicated this way.

2. The second was called Cherem, or Anathema; when a scandalous sinner, with Curses out of the Law of Moses, was in the public Audience of the whole Church, without any limitation of time, excluded from the Communion of it. This thought to be the same called a delivering up unto Satan. With this sort of Excommunication was the Incestuous person censured, 1 Cor. 5.4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5. To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction ⟨p. 6⟩of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2. The second was called Cherem, or Anathema; when a scandalous sinner, with Curses out of the Law of Moses, was in the publick Audience of the whole Church, without any limitation of time, excluded from the Communion of it. This thought to be the same called a delivering up unto Satan. With this sort of Excommunication was the Incestuous person censured,