A53671:300
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.
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.
First, what is previously required thereunto; and that is,
First, that in all the members of the Church there ought to be love without dissimulation. They are to be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love, Rom. 12.9, 10. which as they are taught of God, so they are greatly exhorted thereunto; Heb. 13.1. This love is the bond of perfection the most excellent way and means of preserving Church order, and furthering the edification thereof.