A53671:334
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.
(5.) An Exhortation unto humiliation and repentance and acknowledgement.
Eleventhly, In case the offender despise this admonition of the Church, and come not upon it unto repentance, it is the will and appointment of our Lord Jesus Christ that he be cut off from all the privileges of the Church, and cast out from the society thereof, or be excommunicated wherein consists the last act of the discipline of the Church for the correction of offenders; and herein may be considered,
Eleventhly, In case the offender despise this admonition of the Church, and come not upon it unto repentance, it is the will and appointment of our Lord Jesus Christ that he be cut off from all the priviledges of the Church, and cast out from the society thereof, or be excommunicated wherein consists the last act of the discipline of the Church for the correction of offenders; and herein may be considered,
First, The nature of it, that it is an authoritative act and so principally belongs unto the Elders of the Church, who therein exert the power that they have received from the Lord Christ, by and with the consent of the Church according to his appointment, Matth. 16.19. John 20.23. Matth. 18.18. 1 Cor. 5.4. Titus 3.10.