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The true nature of a Gospel church and its government
The true nature of a Gospel church and its government ... by the late pious and learned minister of the Gospel, John Owen ...
London: printed for William Marshall, 1689
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 10: Of EXCOMMUNICATION.Chapter 10: Of EXCOMMVNICATION.
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.
3ly, IT is to be accompanied with a due sense of the future Judgment of Christ. For we herein Judge for Christ, in the matters of his House and Kingdom. And woe to them who dare pronounce this Sentence without a persuasion on good grounds, that it is the Sentence of Christ himself. And there is a Representation also in it of the future Judgment, when Christ will Eternally cut off and separate from himself all Hypocrites and impenitent Sinners. This is well expressed by ⟨p. 216⟩Tertullian, Ibidem etiam Exhortationes, Castigationes & Censura Divina (speaking of the Assemblies of the Church) nam & judicatur magno cum pondere, ut apud certos de Dei conspectu; summumque futuri judicii praejudicium est, si quis ita d liquerit ut a Communicatione Orationis & Conventus, & omnis sancti commercii relegetur, Apol. cap. 39. Were this Duty observed, it would be a preservative against that inter-mixture of corrupt Affections, and corrupt Ends, which often impose themselves on the Minds of Men, in the exercise of this Power.
3ly, IT is to be accompanied with a due sence of the future Judgment of Christ. For we herein Judge for Christ, in the matters of his House and Kingdom. And woe to them who dare pronounce this Sentence without a perswasion on good grounds, that it is the Sentence of Christ himself. And there is a Representation also in it of the future Judgment, when Christ will Eternally cut off and separate from himself all Hypocrites and impenitent Sinners. This is well expressed by ⟨p. 216⟩Tertullian, Ibidem etiam Exhortationes, Castigationes & Censura Divina (speaking of the Assemblies of the Church) nam & judicatur magno cum pondere, ut apud certos de Dei conspectu; summumque futuri judicii praejudicium est, si quis ita d liquerit ut a Communicatione Orationis & Conventus, & omnis sancti commercii relegetur, Apol. cap. 39. Were this Duty observed, it would be a preservative against that inter-mixture of corrupt Affections, and corrupt Ends, which often impose themselves on the Minds of Men, in the exercise of this Power.