A Reply to his fifteenth Chapter touching the admonition and rejection of an Heretic.A Reply to his fifteenth Chapter touching the admonition and rejection of an Heretick.
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CHAP. 15. A Reply to his fifteenth Chapter touching the admonition and rejection of an Heretic.
CHAP. 15. A Reply to his fifteenth Chapter touching the admonition and rejection of an Heretick.
The first and second Admonitions in the place of Titus were not Civill or corporal punishments on mens persons, or purses: But they were the reprehensions, convictions, exhortations, and persuasions of the word of the Eternal God, charged home to the Conscience, in the Name and Presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of his Church. Which being despised, and not hearkened unto, in the last place followeth rejection, which is not a cutting off by heading, hanging, burning, nor an expelling out of the Country, and coasts: but the dreadful cutting off from the visible head and body, Christ Jesus, and his Church—Spiritual cutting off by Excommunication.
THe first and second Admonitions in the place of Titus were not Civill or corporall punishments on mens persons, or purses: But they were the reprehensions, convictions, exhortations, and perswasions of the word of the Eternall God, charged home to the Conscience, in the Name and Presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of his Church. Which being despised, and not hearkened unto, in the last place followeth rejection, which is not a cutting off by heading, hanging, burning, nor an expelling out of the Countrey, and coasts: but the dreadfull cutting off from the visible head and body, Christ Jesus, and his Church—Spirituall cutting off by Excommunication.
Defender.
All this, & the proofs of this, in this Chapter, I willingly consent and subscribe unto: nor doth this touch any conclusion of mine at all, much less Discuss, or shake it. For though I said indeed, that for an erroneous and blind Conscience (even in Fundamental and weighty Points) It is not lawful to persecute any, till after Admonition once or twice, according to