A53671:319
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.
Eighthly, In case the persons offending, be not humbled nor reformed, nor do give satisfaction unto them by whom they are admonished, then hath our Lord ordained a second degree of this private exercise of discipline; that the persons who being offended, have discharged the foregoing duty themselves according unto rule, shall take unto them others, two or three, as the occasion may seem to require, to join with them in the same work and duty, to be performed in the same manner for the same ends, with that before described, Matth. 18, 15, 16, 17. And it is the duty of these persons so called in for assistance;
Eighthly, In case the persons offending, be not humbled nor reformed, nor do give satisfaction unto them by whom they are admonished, then hath our Lord ordained a second degree of this private exercise of discipline; that the persons who being offended, have discharged the foregoing duty themselves according unto rule, shall take unto them others, two or three, as the occasion may seem to require, to joyn with them in the same work and duty, to be performed in the same manner for the same ends, with that before described, Matth. 18, 15, 16, 17. And it is the duty of these persons so called in for assistance;
First, To judge of the crime, fault, or offence reported to them; and not to proceed unless they find it to consist in something expressly contrary to the rule of the Gospel, and attested in such manner, and with such evidence, as their mutual love doth require in them, with ⟨p. 199⟩respect unto their Brethren. And they are to judge of the testimony that is given concerning the truth of the offence communicated unto them, that they may not seem either lightly to take up a report against their Brother, or to discredit the testimony of others.
First, To judge of the crime, fault, or offence reported to them; and not to proceed unless they find it to consist in something expresly contrary to the rule of the Gospel, and attested in such manner, and with such evidence, as their mutual love doth require in them, with