A36320:33
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
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, 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.
3. The greatest of all they called Samatha; so called from Shem, a name which they put for Nomen Tetragrammaton, or Jehovah, and Atha, comes: Others derive it from Sham, There, and Mitha, Death; as if they should say, There and then shall be death to the Non-Lovers of Christ. The Syrians call it Maran-atha; by which form added to the two former, the excommunicated person as desperate and forlorn, without all hope of pardon or restitution, was left to the hands of the Lord, to receive from him an heavy doom at his coming; implying, that they summoned the Excommunicated before the dreadful Tribunal at the last coming of the Son of God. They say this sort of Excommunication the people of God used against the Amalekites.