A86000:67
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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They therefore who with an high hand do persevere in their wickedness, after foregoing admonitions stubbornly despised or carelessly neglected, are justly by Excommunication in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ cut off and cast out from the society of the faithful, and are pronounced to be cast out from the Church, until being filled with shame, and cast down, they shall return again to a more sound mind, and by confession of their sin and amendment of their lives, they shall show tokens of their repentance, Matth. 18. 16, 17, 18. 1 Cor. 5. 13. which places are also alleged in the Confession of Bohemia, Art. 8. to prove that the Excommunication of the impenitent and stubborn, whose wickedness is known, is commanded of the Lord: But if stubborn Heretics, or unclean persons be not removed or cast out from the Church, therein do the Governors of the Church sin, and are found guilty, Rev. 2. 14, 20.
They therefore who with an high hand do persevere in their wickednesse, after foregoing admonitions stubbornly despised or carelesly neglected, are justly by Excommunication in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ cut off and cast out from the society of the faithfull, and are pronounced to be cast out from the Church, untill being filled with shame, and cast downe, they shall return again to a more sound minde, and by confession of their sinne and amendment of their lives, they shall shew tokens of their repentance,