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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.
2. WHERE Persons are Members of Churches by mutual confederation, or express personal consent, causeless departure from them is an evil liable unto many Aggravations.
2. WHERE Persons are Members of Churches by mutual confederation, or express personal consent, causless departure from them is an evil liable unto many Aggrevations.
3. BUT whereas the principal end of all particular Churches is Edification, there may be many just and sufficient Reasons why a Person may remove himself from the constant Communion of one Church unto that of another. And of these Reasons he himself is judge, on whom it is incumbent to take care of his own Edification above all other things. Nor ought the Church to deny unto any such Persons their Liberty desired peaceably and according unto Order.
4. IT was declared before, that where any Persons guilty ⟨p. 226⟩of, and under Admonition for any scandalous Sin, do withdraw from the Communion of any Church, their so doing, is no impediment unto a farther procedure against them.