A75287:1956
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The…
Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and public, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.
London: printed by John Field for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1649London: printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, 1649
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2. If that prevail not, to suspend them, 1 Cor. 5.11. 2 Thess. 3.6, 14, 15.
3. If that prevail not, then to Excommunicate them by the lesser Excommunication, Matth. 18.17. 1 Cor. 5.4, 5. 2 Cor. 2.6.
4. If that prevail not, then (in some cases) to Excommunicate them by the greater Excommunication, 1 Cor. 16.22. Gal. 1.8, 9. 1 John 5.16. This is only when a man is visibly irrecoverable, ⟨p. 262⟩or hath committed the sin against the holy Ghost; the case of Julian the Apostate, whom the Church would not pray for, but prayed against.
4. If that prevail not, then (in some cases) to Excommunicate them by the greater Excommunication,