The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…

Ergo they are not all such materials of a visible Church, (as our brethren say) even saints by calling, and a Church doth well take the charge of those, who never offered their professed subjection to Christs Ordinances, we are not to think, that these who called themselves Apostles, and yet were Liars, were visible saints approved in the sight of God to the consciences of the Church of Ephesus, and that such did offer their professed subjection to the Angel and Church of Ephesus, as you teach, ⟨p. 130⟩yet that Church took care of them, by the censures of the Church, and are commended therefore, Revel. 2. 2. Thou canst not bear them that are evil, and hast tried them, which say they are Apostles, and hast found them liars. If a false teacher shall come to a congregation, and be a hearer for some years, and at length fall to, and teach pernicious Doctrine, will not the Church censure him, labour to stop his mouth, yea and excommunicate him, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord? I think they cannot but exercise some Church censures, and that the pastors convincing of such a gain-sayer, and a stopping of his mouth, is the very pastoral charge, laid upon Titus by Paul, Tit. 1. 10, 11, 12. as is most clear v: 13. Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.

Ergo they are not all such materialls of a visible Church, (as our brethren say) even saints by calling, and a Church doth well take the charge of those, who never offered their professed subjection to Christs Ordinances, we are not to thinke, that these who called themselves Apostles, and yet were Lyers, were visible saints approved in the sight of God to the consciences of the Church of Ephesus, and that such did offer their professed subjection to the Angell and Church of Ephesus, as you teach, ⟨p. 130⟩yet that Church tooke care of them, by the censures of the Church, and are commended therefore, Revel. 2. 2. Thou canst not beare them that are evill, and hast tryed them, which say they are Apostles, and hast found them liers. If a false teacher shall come to a congregation, and be a hearer for some yeares, and at length fall to, and teach pernitious Doctrine, will not the Church censure him, labour to stop his mouth, yea and excommunicate him, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord? I thinke they cannot but exercise some Church censures, and that the pastors convincing of such a gaine-sayer, and a stopping of his mouth, is the very pastorall charge, layd upon Titus by Paul,