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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.
2. They are to bind and loose, to inflict Ecclesiastical censures, or to take them off; the supreme Ecclesiastical Authority must have Power of Judgment, that so there may no public guilt lye upon the Church; if they have not Power of Judgment, Particular Persons may be oppressed by the rigour of Presbyteries, and many irregularities committed by the Church, whereby the Country doth become guilty, and there would be no sufficient way to deliver the Land from guilt. Synods have Power to Admonish, to Excommunicate, and deliver from those censures, and every Man must stand to the Judgment of the National Synod, Deut. 17.12.
2. They are to bind and loose, to inflict Ecclesiastical censures, or to take them off; the supream Ecclesiastical Authority must have Power of Judgment, that so there may no publick guilt lye upon the Church; if they have not Power of Judgment, Particular Persons may be oppressed by the rigour of Presbyteries, and many irregularities committed by the Church, whereby the Country doth become guilty, and there would be no sufficient way to deliver the Land from guilt. Synods have Power to Admonish, to Excommunicate, and deliver from those censures, and every Man must stand to the Judgment of the National Synod, Deut. 17.12.
They are to Judge in case of Complaint; when any Person Judges himself wronged by the Judgment of a particular Church, and complains to a Synod, they are to hear the case, and upon the hearing of it, not to advise the Church either to confirm the sentence, or to take it off; but if there be occasion, they are to take off the sentence and restore the Man unto his privilege.
They are to Judge in case of Complaint; when any Person Judges himself wronged by the Judgment of a particular Church, and complains to a Synod, they are to hear the case, and upon the hearing of it, not to advise the Church either to confim the sentence, or to take it off; but if there be occasion, they are to take off the sentence and restore the Man unto his priviledge.