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Another essay for investigation of the truth, in answer to two questions, concerning I.…
Another essay for investigation of the truth, in answer to two questions, concerning I. The subject of baptism. II. The consociation of churches. / By John Davenport B. of D. and Pastor of the Church of Christ, at New-Haven, in New-England. ; [Twenty-four lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663
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.
R••ly. The Argument is to be denied, in their sense; nor doth the text prove it: for that text speaketh of men that are members in full communion. Such an one was that […] […], till he was taken away from among them by Excommunication, 1 Cor. 5. 1,2,5. and such were they who were afterward spoken of in ver. 11. who were called Brethren, in respect of their full communion with the Church, before they were put, by the just censure of the Church, into that state, wherein the members are […] to eat with them. And of that Church-judicature he speaks in v••. 12. saying, Do not […] them that […]. in full membership, as well of all other Ordinances, as of Censures. And indeed, seeing Excommunication is the casting ou• from communion▪ How can any be […] excommunicated, who were never in communion and so within the Church? Now themselves deny such communion to the adult persons, […] they call […] members, to distinguish them […] ⟨p. 13⟩members in full communion: therefore not subject to Judicature of the Church, according to the meaning of that text.
R••ly. The Argument is to be denied, in their sense; nor doth the text prove it: for that text speaketh of men that are members in full communion. Such an one was that 〈…〉 〈…〉, till he was taken away from among them by Excommunication, 1 Cor. 5. 1,2,5. and such were they who were afterward spoken of in ver. 11. who were called Brethren, in respect of their full communion with the Church, before they were put, by the just censure of the Church, into that state, wherein the members are 〈…〉 to eat with them. And of that Church-judicature he speaks in v••. 12. saying, Do not 〈…〉 them that 〈…〉. in full membership, as well of all other Ordinances, as of Censures. And indeed, seeing Excommunication is the casting ou from communion How can any be excommunicated, who were never in communion and so within the Church? Now themselves deny such communion to the adult persons, they call members, to distinguish them