Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…

and such as you find to be grossly ignorant or scandalous, advise them to stay till they are prepared, offering them your help, because else you must do that in a way of Discipline, that they are unfit to bear. 5. All that disown their own standing and Church-membership, or present Right to Privileges, and withdraw into the order of Catechumens, as being ignorant in what they did before, you may safely teach them as Catechumens, and are not bound to enrage them by Church-Discipline, which they consent not to, and are not capable of. 6. All those that you find tolerable, that have owned their Churchmembership, and not withdrawn themselves, ⟨p. 281⟩you ought to keep their names, in a Church Book for memory, and to call them solemnly (at some day of humiliation, or other fit season) to own their Relation publicly, their names being-read, that all may know with whom they are to hold Communion. And if there be need, you may justly require them there openly to renew their Profession and Covenant with God. 7. Your flock being then Reformed and known, you need not call them again, to examination before particular Sacraments, or other parts of Church-communion. 8. When any members are after added, they should, if unconfirmed, and such as never did Communicate, be received solemnly by Prayer and Benediction; and if they be such as have been admitted to Communion, let them be only Approved upon renewing their Profession. For the one sort are Confirmed in their Relation to both Catholic and particular Church; but the other, only enter then into the particular Church, being solemnly received into the Catholic Church before, and perhaps into some other particular Church, or into that from which they departed.

and such as you find to be grosly ignorant or scandalous, advise them to stay till they are prepared, offering them your help, because else you must do that in a way of Discipline, that they are unfit to beare. 5. All that disown their own standing and Church-membership, or present Right to Priviledges, and withdraw into the order of Catechumens, as being ignorant in what they did before, you may safely teach them as Catechumens, and are not bound to enrage them by Church-Discipline, which they consent not to, and are not capable of. 6. All those that you find tolerable, that have owned their Churchmembership, and not withdrawne themselves, ⟨p. 281⟩you ought to keep their names, in a Church Book for memory, and to call them solemnly (at some day of humiliation, or other fit season) to own their Relation publikly, their names being-read, that all may know with whom they are to hold Communion. And if there be need, you may justly require them there openly to renew their Profession and Covenant with God. 7. Your flock being then Reformed and known, you need not call them againe, to examination before particular Sacraments, or other parts of Church-communion. 8. When any members are after added, they should, if unconfirmed, and such as never did Communicate, be received solemnly by Prayer and Benediction; and if they be such as have been admitted to Communion, let them be only Approved upon renewing their Profession. For the one sort are Confirmed in their Relation to both Catholike and particular Church; but the other, only enter then into the particular Church, being solemnly received into the Catholick Church before, and perhaps into some other particular Church, or into that from which they departed.