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The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
Part 3 › Chapter 11: Admonition is necessary, and how to be performed.
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The fourth thing and that which followeth fruitless1 admonition, is rejection, Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an heretic, reject. This rejection is the same with Excommunication or delivering to Satan, 1 Tim. 1. 20. Concerning which these things are clear,
The fourth thing and that which followeth fruitlesse1 admonition, is rejection, Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an heretick, reject. This rejection is the same with Excommunication or delivering to Satan, 1 Tim. 1. 20. Concerning which these things are clear,
- 1That rejecting of an obstinate Heretic, is to Church-officers a necessary duty, & a mean to be made use of for the Churches edification.That rejecting of an obstinat Heretick, is to Church-officers a necessary duty, & a mean to be made use of for the Churches edification.
1. That a man, continuing an Heretic, may and ought to be rejected and excommunicated as well as for any other gross Scandal: For, 1. the precept is plain in the place cited, A man that is an Heretic, reject; which must be a casting of him out from Church-communion, and a giving of him over in respect of the use of any further means for his edification, which is in effect, to account him as an Heathen man and a Publican, which is called, 1 Cor. 5. 13. a putting ⟨p. 234⟩