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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
Of dealing with Heretics and Blasphemers.Of dealing with Hereticks and Blasphemers.
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.
Answ. When an offending Brother rejecting private Admonition by one, or by two or three Persons; the complaint being brought to the Church by the Elder, the offending Member is rebuked and exhorted in the Name of the Lord Jesus to due Repentance; and if convicted, and he repents, the Church forgives him, otherwise casts him out, as I before showed.
Answ. When an offending Brother rejecting private Admonition by one, or by two or three Persons; the complaint being brought to the Church by the Elder, the offending Member is rebuked and exhorted in the Name of the Lord Jesus to due Repentance; and if convicted, and he repents, the Church forgives him, otherwise casts him out, as I before shewed.
Quest. May a Church admit a Member of another Congregation to have Communion with them, without an orderly receiving him as a Member?
Answ. If the Person is well known by some of the Church, and ⟨p. 36⟩that he is an orderly Member of […] Church of the same Faith, he being occasionally cast among them▪ they may admit him to transie•• Communion for that time; but i• he abides in that Town or City remote to the Church to whom he belongs, he ought to have his regular dismission, and so be delivered up to the care and watch of the Church where he desires to communicate.
Answ. If the Person is well known by some of the Church, and ⟨p. 36⟩that he is an orderly Member of Church of the same Faith, he being occasionally cast among them they may admit him to transie Communion for that time; but i he abides in that Town or City remote to the Church to whom he belongs, he ought to have his regular dismission, and so be delivered up to the care and watch of the Church where he desires to communicate.