A53671:339
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.
(1.) The gaining of the party offending, by bringing him to repentance, humiliation, and acknowledgement of his offence, 2 Cor. 2.6, 7. 2 Cor. 13.10.
(2.) The warning of others not to do so presumptuously.
(3.) The preserving of the Church in its purity and order, 1 Cor. 5.6, 7. all to the glory of Jesus Christ.
Fourthly, The causes of it or the grounds and reasons on which the Church may proceed unto sentence ⟨p. 205⟩against any offending persons. Now these are no other but such as they judge according to the Gospel, that the Lord Christ will proceed upon in his final judgement at the last day. For the Church judgeth in the name and authority of Christ, and are to exclude none from its communion, but those whom they find by the rule, that he himself excludes from his Kingdom; and so that which they bind on earth, is bound by him in Heaven,