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A80160 Responsoria bipartita, sive vindiciæ suspensionis ecclesiasticæ ut et presbyterii evangelici. A double reply, containing a vindication of the antient practice of the Church (according to the rule of the word) suspending the ignorant and scandalous from the Lords Supper. As also of ecclesiastical presbyteries ... The first in answer to one M. Boatmans challenge of all the ministers on earth to make suspension of any but Turks, Jews, pagans and excommunicate persons from the Lords Supper, appear from Scriptures. In answer to whom the said censure is justified by several arguments from Scripture, and the universal practice of the Church, the magisterial vanity also of his sermon, Decem. 13. and March 28. in Peters Church in Norwich is discovered, ... In which answer also some objections of Erastus, Mr. Prin, and Mr. Humfry, are coilaterally considered, and answered. The second part in answer to Theophilus Brabourn, who hath talked something in a little pamphlet against the Lord Jesus Christ ... / By John Collings, B.D. and pastor of the church of Christ in Stephens parish in Norwich. Collinges, John, 1623-1690. 1655 (1655) Wing C5333; Thomason E832_2; ESTC R207514 201,020 319

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confirm_v thesi_fw-la p._n 258._o l._n 3._o c._n 8._o vind_z p._n 83.84_o mr_n prins_n vind_z of_o 4_o serious_a question_n p._n 9_o so_o mr_n prin_fw-mi so_o mr_n humphrey_n to_o this_o two_o thing_n have_v be_v already_o answer_v and_o except_o i_o see_v need_n i_o shall_v add_v little_a of_o my_o own_o 1._o that_o it_o can_v never_o be_v prove_v that_o it_o be_v not_o mean_v of_o sacramental_a eat_n but_o of_o civil_a eat_n 2._o that_o there_o be_v ground_n for_o the_o contrary_a opinion_n 3._o that_o admit_v it_o yet_o the_o argument_n stand_v strong_a first_o i_o desire_v to_o know_v a_o reason_n why_o our_o adversary_n will_v needs_o restrain_v that_o text_n to_o a_o civil_a communion_n erastus_n give_v these_o reason_n 1._o the_o apostle_n precept_n concern_v deny_v communion_n must_v not_o be_v so_o interpret_v as_o to_o contradict_v christ_n precept_n but_o christ_n command_v all_o to_o receive_v beza_n grant_v both_o 70._o beza_n de_fw-fr presh_n &_o excom_n p._n 70._o and_o answer_n that_o christ_n may_v command_v his_o apostle_n to_o do_v that_o which_o consider_v the_o time_n he_o do_v not_o but_o although_o i_o reverence_v beza_n yet_o i_o think_v he_o have_v grant_v too_o much_o and_o beside_o that_o his_o answer_n be_v not_o to_o the_o objection_n which_o be_v found_v not_o on_o christ_n practice_n but_o his_o precept_n i_o deny_v the_o assumption_n therefore_o and_o demand_v of_o erastus_n and_o all_o his_o follower_n 28._o erast_n thesis_n thesi_fw-la 26.27_o 28._o where_o christ_n command_v to_o give_v the_o sacrament_n to_o all_o erastus_n tell_v we_o he_o have_v prove_v it_o but_o where_o none_o know_v all_o that_o i_o find_v in_o he_o look_v that_o way_n be_v but_o a_o negative_a argument_n christ_n do_v not_o forbid_v any_o nor_o do_v we_o find_v that_o he_o leave_v his_o disciple_n any_o such_o order_n nor_o ever_o reprove_v any_o that_o they_o do_v come_v to_o the_o sacrament_n all_o which_o come_v short_a of_o this_o that_o christ_n do_v 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