A41330:717
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
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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.
Panis igitur fractio est unitatis, & dilectionis symbolum. 1Paraeus in loc. who quotes Chrysostom, and the practise of the old Christian Churches, how Christians in this Ordinance did manifest their unity and love.
- 1Virtute hujus Sacramenti, con a lescimus, in unum corpus invicem & cum Christo. Par. in loc.
A Christians love (I speak to the business in hand) is twofold.
1. There is a Christian love common to all.