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Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…
Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in the churches of New-England. : With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches. : [Seven lines from Ezekiel]
Boston: printed for S. Gerrish, 1726
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But now the Apostle without staying for their Consent, by his own Authority says, I have decreed in the Name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, to deliver such an one to Satan. In which Decree of his, he demands of them to rest Satisfied, when they should be gathered together. Hence the Primitive Churches did abstain from this Form of Excommunication, when they darted the Thunderbolt with never so many other terrible Circumstances. Nothing perhaps would be more terrible, than the Excommunication, wherewith Andronicus, the Prefect of Ptolema•s, was Anathematized by Synesius, for his Cruelties and Blasphemies. The Terms were; Let no Temple of GOD be open unto Andronicus, and his Accomplices: Let every Holy Place be shut upon them. We admonish every Person, whether public or private, that they neither Lodge ⟨p. 154⟩with them, nor Eat with them. And especially, let the Ministers of GOD, neither speak to them while they Live, nor be at their Funeral when they Dye. Of any Delivering to Satan, there was ΟΥΔΕ ΓΡΥ. And for this Cause, the renowned National Synod of the French Protestant Churches met at Alez, forbade this Form of Excommunication, to be used among them.
But now the Apostle without staying for their Consent, by his own Authority says, I have decreed in the Name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, to deliver such an one to Satan. In which Decree of his, he demands of them to rest Satisfied, when they should be gathered together. Hence the Primitive Churches did abstain from this Form of Excommunication, when they darted the Thunderbolt with never so many other terrible Circumstances. Nothing perhaps would be more terrible, than the Excommunication, wherewith Andronicus, the Praefect of Ptolema•s, was Anathematized by Synesius, for his Cruelties and Blasphemies. The Terms were; Let no Temple of GOD be open unto Andronicus, and his Accomplices: Let every Holy Place be shut upon them. We admonish every Person, whether publick or private, that they neither Lodge ⟨p. 154⟩with them, nor Eat with them. And especially, let the Ministers of GOD, neither speak to them while they Live, nor be at their Funeral when they Dye. Of any Delivering to Satan, there was ΟΥΔΕ ΓΡΥ. And for this Cause, the renowned National Synod of the French Protestant Churches met at Alez, forbad this Form of Excommunication, to be used among them.