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The glory of a true church, and its discipline displayed wherein a true gospel-church…The glory of a true church, and its discipline display'd wherein a true gospel-church…
The glory of a true church, and its discipline displayed wherein a true gospel-church is described : together with the power of the keys, and who are to be let in, and who to be shut out / by Benjamin Keach.The glory of a true church, and its discipline display'd wherein a true gospel-church is described : together with the power of the keys, and who are to be let in, and who to be shut out / by Benjamin Keach.
London : s.n., 1697
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.
Again he saith,
It is no more in the just Power of a particular Member to dissolve his Church-Relation, than in a Man to kill himself: but by his said withdrawment he doth Schismatically rend himself from his Communion, and ⟨p. 43⟩so Separate himself Sinfully.★ Quest.What is the just Act of the Church, that clothes this irregular Separation, with the Formality as it were of an Excomcommunication. He Answers. (Calling) this a mixed Excommunication i. e. Originally proceeding from, and consists in, the act of the Brother himself, and is the Formality of his Offence; upon which proceeds the just and unviolable act of the Church. The Judgment of the Church publicly declared by the Elder of the Congregation; as the Dr. words it; viz. That A. B. having so and so irregularly and sinfully withdrawn himself from the Communion of the Congregation, 2we do now adjudge him a Non-member, 3and one that is not to Communicate with the Church, in the special Ordinances of Communion, 4till due Satisfaction is given by him.
It is no more in the just Power of a particular Member to dissolve his Church-Relation, than in a Man to kill himself: but by his said withdrawment he doth Schismatically rend himself from his Communion, and ⟨p. 43⟩so Separate himself Sinfully.★ Quest.What is the just Act of the Church, that cloathes this irregular Separation, with the Formality as it were of an Excomcommunication. He Answers. (Calling) this a mixt Excommunication i. e. Originally proceeding from, and consists in, the act of the Brother himself, and is the Formality of his Offence; upon which proceeds the just and unviolable act of the Church. The Judgment of the Church publickly declared by the Elder of the Congregation; as the Dr. words it; viz. That A. B. having so and so irregularly and sinfully withdrawn himself from the Communion of the Congregation,