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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38575	A treatise of excommunication wherein 'tis fully, learnedly, and modestly demonstrated that there is no warrant ... for excommunicating any persons ... whilst they make an outward profession of the true Christian faith / written originally in Latine by ... Thomas Erastus ... about the year 1568.; Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis utrum excommunicatio. English	Erastus, Thomas, 1524-1583.	1682 (1682)	Wing E3218; ESTC R20859	61,430	96

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't was commanded That if the Houshold were too little for the Lamb that then he and his Neighbor next unto the house should take it according to the number of the Souls to the end that the whole might be eaten The like seems to have been observed in the matter of Circumcision excepting in this particular that they were not obliged to circumcise at Jerusalem onely as they were to celebrate there the Passover for I do not remember that the presence of the Priest was requisite to Circumcision XIV John the Baptist too who was the forerunner of Christ did constantly do the same for he baptized not onely the Pharisees and Sadduces that came unto him whose behaviour and manners he very well understood when he publickly called them a Generation of Vipers but also the Publicans and all others that resorted to him to be baptized to the intent that they repenting them of their former evil life might set about the amending it and so might flee from the Wrath to come 'T is scarce probable that such a man as John was should admit of men of such profligate lives men that impiously audaciously and publickly denied the Resurrection of the Dead had he not known that the Law forbad not access to such for the Judaical Law as has been already shewn prohibited no circumcised persons but the unclean and leprous XV. Besides this Uncleanness was a Legal Ceremony not any impurity of Life or pravity of Manners for not he who had sinned or committed any wickedness was thereby unclean but the Unclean were those who touched any dead Corpse any Excrements any person that had an Issue of Bloud or the like And 't was for this cause that the Pharisees would not go into the Judgment-hall when they had delivered up Christ to Pilate to be put to death lest they should be debarred thereby from eating the Passover But surely the Mosaical uncleanness did not so typifie and represent our iniquities that as they who were thereby defiled were shut out from the Tabernale and the company of others so should it signifie that these sins were to be corrected and punisht by with-holding the Sacraments and by Exclusion from the Visible Church as appears plainly by what follows For 1. Even whilst Legal Uncleanness was in force and there were then wicked men in abundance yet were not the same punishments appointed for the wicked and for the unclean What probability is there then that these Ceremonies should typifie their punishment or in any sort signifie that Moral Delinquencies should be thus checkt and redress'd when the Ceremonies themselves should be taken away and cancel'd 2. Moses had plainly been inconsistent with himself had he in fact admitted them to the Temple and Rituals whom at the same time he by those Ceremonies signified that they were to be excluded For certain it is that no one was ever thrust out of the Tabernacle or from the Congregation for the pravity of his Manners if as the Law commanded he had neither touched any dead Body nor otherwise in that nature defiled himself At this rate therefore Moses should punish those that were but figuratively unclean and let such as were unclean in reality go unregarded I mean as to this sort of punishment 3. That Legal Impurity affected and tainted the Body alone whereas wickedness consists in the Internal actions and operations of the mind for the cause and root of all Evil is born with us and falls not under mans correction whilst it puts not forth its fruit for otherwise must the whole World be Excommunicate for we shall not get these spots out of our Soul whilst we breathe mortal air But that other Impurity which is but a bodily stain is punish'd by being debarr'd Commerce with others though there be no other fruit no farther evil springing from that uncleanness nor he that is defil'd hath done nothing against the Law but for the actions and transgressions of the unclean they were dealt with at the rate of others transgressions if the parties under that defilement did any thing against the Law and the cleanness or uncleanness of the sinner neither aggravated nor lessened the moral guilt 4. Our very Adversaries confess that not all sorts and sizes of sins are to be redressed by Excommunication whereas the Law commands that every uncleanness be punisht by Exclusion from the Tabernacle and publick Sacrifices so that those could not typifie all sorts of Iniquities 5. No man that sins unwittingly can be excommunicated but 't was usual for men unwittingly to contract uncleanness and not onely without any blame of theirs but to their great grief and trouble What fault was there in him who sleeping unvoluntarily suffered nocturnal Pollutions and where the Wife might unexpectedly fall into that condition which the Law made a Pollution to the Husband if he approach'd her or by the decease of Children Wife or Parents or the like which usually happened And now it needs not to be proved that they are onely voluntary and spontaneous Crimes for which persons may be as some men think debarr'd Access to the Sacraments 6. A far severer punishment was ordained for him that killed a man against and without any will or intention of so doing than a naked seclusion from the Sacraments for some few weeks or days If therefore an unpremeditated and involuntary offence and by consequence a sin of the lesser die underwent a more sharp and bitter chastizement than the foulest Legal Impurities 't is plain that the punishments for them are not intended to represent the punishment for Moral Iniquities 7. It often fell out that men of the greatest Sanctity and Integrity became unclean and were debarr'd both from entering into the Temple and from the use of Sacrifices whilst on the other hand men most notoriously wicked had admission to either without controul whereas if in the Church of God both ought to undergo the same punishment the latter should rather be secluded than the former 8. 'T is manifest that God did at no time or place absolutely prohibit all Legal Impurity for some were to attend the dying persons some those that were infected with an unclean disease some must bury the dead and in fine some must purifie the unclean by which means they themselves became defiled v. Numb 19. so that God would not that all Legal Impurities should be avoided But God prohibited sins of all kinds and to all men and at all times and never indulg'd the perpetrating any wicked action at any time or place whatever 9. God commands that sin should be restrain'd by Fire Sword Halters Stoning Stripes Mulcts Imprisonment and other penalties of the like nature but ordains that the legally unclean should be purified by sprinkling and washing with water and the like Numb 19. v. 17 18 19. 10. He that had contracted uncleanness according to the definitions of legal Pollutions and died in that state as for instance women in their menstruousness or men