A86000:58
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded…
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late General Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianism, independency, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1647
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Wherefore the point to be here considered as that which is now aimed at, is this, that howsoever even under the New Testament, the uncleanness of those to whom the Word of God is preached be tolerated; yet all such, of what estate or condition soever in the Church, as are defiled with manifest and grievous scandals, and do thereby witness themselves to be without the inward and spiritual Communion with Christ and the faithful, may and are to be altogether discharged from the Communion of the Lords Supper, until they repent and change their manners.
Wherefore the point to be here considered as that which is now aimed at, is this, that howsoever even under the New Testament, the uncleannesse of those to whom the Word of God is preached be tolerated; yet all such, of what estate or condition soever in the Church, as are defiled with manifest and grievous scandals, and doe thereby witnesse themselves to be without the inward and spirituall Commnnion with Christ and the faithfull, may and are to be altogether discharged from the Communion of the Lords Supper, untill they repent and change their manners.
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Besides, even those to whom it was not permitted to go into the holy Courts of Israel, and to ingyre themselves into Ecclesiastical Communion, and who did stand between the Court of Israel and the utter wall, were not therefore to be kept back from hearing the word; for in Solomons Porch, and so in the intermurale or Court of the Gentiles the Gospel was preached both by Christ,