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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.
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.
2. WHEN persons are under this Sentence, the Church is in a state of expecting of their Recovery and Return; and therefore are not to prohibit them any Means thereof, such as is preaching of the Word.