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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.
4. WITH respect unto such Opinions, if Men will, as is usual, wrangle and contend to the disturbance of the peace of the Church, or hinder it in any Duty, with respect unto its own Edification, and will neither peaceably abide in the Church, ⟨p. 229⟩nor peaceably depart from it, they may and ought to be proceeded against with Censures of the Church.
VIII. WHETHER persons Excommunicated out of any Church may be admitted unto the hearing of the Word in the Assemblies of that Church?
Answ. 1. THEY may be so; as also to be present at all Duties of Moral Worship; for so many Heathens and Unbelievers, 1 Cor. 14.23, 24.
Answ. 1. THEY may be so; as also to be present at all Duties of Moral Worship; for so many Heathens and Vnbelievers, 1 Cor. 14.23, 24.