The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

2ly, IT is to be accompanied with Lamentation or Mourning. So the Apostle reproving the Church of Corinth for the omission of it when it was necessary, tells them, That they had not mourned; that the offender might be taken away from among them, 1 Cor. 5.2. It is not to be done without mourning: And himself calls the Execution of this Sentence from this Adjunct, his bewailing of them. I shall bewail many that have sinned already, 2 Cor. 12.2. Compassion for the person offending, with respect unto that dangerous condition whereinto he hath cast himself; the Excision of a Member of the same Body with whom they have had Communion in the most holy Mysteries of Divine Worship, and sate down at the Table of the Lord, with a due sense of the Dishonour of the Gospel by his fall, ought to ingenerate this Mourning or Lamentation in the Minds of them who are concerned in the Execution of the Sentence. Nor is it advisable for any Church to proceed thereunto, before they are so affected.

2ly, IT is to be accompanied with Lamentation or Mourning. So the Apostle reproving the Church of Corinth for the omission of it when it was necessary, tells them, That they had not mourned; that the offender might be taken away from among them, 1 Cor. 5.2. It is not to be done without mourning: And himself calls the Execution of this Sentence from this Adjunct, his bewailing of them. I shall bewail many that have sinned already, 2 Cor. 12.2. Compassion for the person offending, with respect unto that dangerous condition whereinto he hath cast himself; the Excision of a Member of the same Body with whom they have had Communion in the most holy Mysteries of Divine Worship, and sate down at the Table of the Lord, with a due sense of the Dishonour of the Gospel by his fall, ought to ingenerate this Mourning or Lamentation in the Minds of them who are concern'd in the Execution of the Sentence. Nor is it advisable for any Church to proceed thereunto, before they are so affected.