A53671:298
A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of…
A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.
London : s.n., 1667
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.
Explication.
In these questions an enquiry is made after the exercise of discipline in the Church, as to that part of it which belongs unto the reproof and correction of miscarriages according to the distribution of right, power, and privilege, before explained.
In these questions an enquirie is made after the exercise of discipline in the Church, as to that part of it which belongs unto the reproof and correction of miscarriages according to the distribution of right, power, and priviledge, before explained.
The first act hereof consists in private admonition; for so hath our Lord ordained, that in case any Brother, or member of the Church, do in any ⟨p. 192⟩thing walk disorderly, and not according to the rule of the Gospel, that he, or they, unto whom it is observed, and who are thereby offended, may and ought to admonish the person or persons so offending of their miscarriage and offence, concerning which is to be observed.
The first act hereof consists in private admonition; for so hath our Lord ordained, that in case any Brother, or member of the Church, do in any ⟨p. 192⟩thing w•lk disorderly, and not according to the rule of the Gospel, that he, or they, unto whom it is observed, and who are thereby offended, may and ought to admonish the person or persons so offending of their miscarriage and offence, concerning which is to be observed.