A39521:10
Questions preparatory to the better, free, and more Christian administration of the Lords Supper
Questions preparatory to the better, free, and more Christian administration of the Lords Supper by E.F., Esq.
London: printed for Edw. Blackmore, 1655
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.
Whether the power of binding and loosing was not §IIIgiven to the Church, cand not to any particular person or Church-Officer? And, whether Suspension from the ⟨p. 2⟩Sacrament be not a branch of that power? And if so; Then whether it be not a sinful usurpation and an high presumption for any man under the fictitious Title of Church-Officer (of which Title we read not in the Scripture) to take upon him the Churches Authority of binding and loosing?
Whether the power of binding and loosing was not §IIIgiven to the Church, cand not to any particular person or Church-Officer? And, whether Suspension from the ⟨p. 2⟩Sacrament be not a branch of that power? And if so; Then whether it be not a sinfull usurpation and an high presumption for any man under the fictitious Title of Church-Officer (of which Title we reade not in the Scripture) to take upon him the Churches Authority of binding and loosing?
- cMatth. 16. v. 18, 19. compared with ch. 18. v. 17. 18.
Whether this be a good consequence; Because the §IVChurch of Corinth, the Church of Ephesus, and other Churches did Excommunicate and cast out of their Churches notorious scandalous Offenders and Heretics;