A41330:714
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 External bands are the Sacraments or Seals of the New Covenant; whether Government be any thing, I shall touch afterwards.
But for the Sacraments, they are the bands of this visible body; they belong only to the members of this body; one Baptism, Ephes. 4.5. belong only to that one body, v. 4.
1 Cor. 11.17. We being many, are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Hence Excommunication, in which men are cut off the Body, and rendered, durante hoc statu, as Heathens and Publicans, not visible members of Christ, is by casting them out of Communion with their Body in these Ordinances. In these Ordinances the visible members of the body declare that unity and internal band of love one to another.