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The doctrine of instituted churches explained and proved from the word of God
The doctrine of instituted churches explained and proved from the word of God by Solomon Stoddard ...
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1700
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.
Such offences as are of a more Heinous Nature, don't call for Church censures, provided there be a suitable Spirit of Repentance; if the end of censures be obtained, there is no occasion for them; Persons under the sentence of Excommunication, are not only to be debarred from the Lords Supper, but also to be excluded from the familiar Society of the People of God; where there is no special Bond, we are not to have that Society with them, that we may have with Heathens, 1 Cor. 5.9,12.
Such offences as are of a more Heinous Nature, don't call for Church censures, provided there be a suteable Spirit of Repentance; if the end of censures be obtained, there is no occasion for them; Persons under the sentence of Excommunication, are not only to be debarred from the Lords Supper, but also to be exclued from the familiar Society of the People of God; where there is no special Bond, we are not to have that Society with them, that we may have with Heathens, 1 Cor. 5.9,12.
To this Act of Worship appertains Absolution, when the Person that hath offended doth manifest a Spirit of Repentance, whether he has been censured or not, he is to be acquitted.
To this Act of Worship appertains Absolution, when the Person that hath offended doth manifest a Spirit of Repentance, whether he has been censured or not, he is to be acquited.
The seventh Act of Worship is the Blessing of the Congregation; there is a Blessing of Men by way of supplication, that may be performed by any Person, and there is a Blessing by way of Confirmation, this is pronounced in the Name of God; this is either extraordinary, by way of prediction, so the Patriarchs did bless