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A84062	The nullity of church-censures: or A dispute written by that illustrious philosopher, expert physician, and pious divine Dr Thomas Erastus, publick professor in the University of Heidelbertge, and Basil. Wherein is proved by the holy Scriptures, and sound reason; that excommunication, and church-senates or members, exercising the same, are not of divine institution; but a meere humane invention.	Erastus, Thomas, 1542-1583.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3217; Thomason E1783_2; ESTC R209663	63,863	128

A Humane Invention The I. Position THe word Excommunication seemeth to be taken out of the tenth Chapter of the 1 Corinthians And to signifie a removall from that Commiunion which in that place is called the Body of Christ And indeed at this time Excommunication is defined by almost all to be An exclusion from the fellowship and Communion of Believers II. There is a twofold fellowship of Believers The one is internall and spirituall The other externall or visible and politick The third sort of which some of the late Romish-Catholicks do mention is neither fitly feigned nor belongeth at all to our present purpose III. And the difference betwixt these two is so great that he which is comprehended within either of them is not likewise necessarily included in the other For as that man may be a Member of Christ that is unjustly thrust out of a visible Congregation or is compelled to live and lurke amongst Infidels So all they that are of a visible Congregation are not also the lively Members of Christ whence it follows that these matters may be different which tye us to the one and not to the other and which divide us from the one and not from the other IV. And indeed we are made Members of Christ that is we are joyned to the internall and spirituall society of Christ and of the faithfull by Faith alone which worketh in Charity and we fall from this fellowship only by Infidelity Therefore none can ingraff us in or loppe us off from this except only he that can give us living Faith and can take again the same from us V. But we are made Consorts of the externall and visible Church by the profession of the same Faith by the consent we give to the same Doctrine and by the using of the same Sacraments In whatsomever Person these three are found he is so long as they are found in him accompted for a Member of the externall Congregation of Believers although he never attaine to the inward Communion of the spirit and mind VI. Therefore he that is thrown out of the externall Communion of the Church that is He that is excommunicated Is debarr'd either of all these three or of two of them or only of one But not any ought to be debar'd of the two former that is from professing of the Faith and approving the Doctrine under which the hearing of the Word or Doctrine is comprehended of Christians but rather all men are to be invited and by all meanes possible are to be induced thereto Wherefore it remaineth That he that is Excommunicated is debar'd from the sole of the foresaid three participation of the Sacrament we will consider afterwards whither the deniall of private converse doth inseperably adhere unto this or may be seperate therefro But this is certain that not any other punishment belongeth to the essence of Excommunication for the same may be inflicted upon Persons that are not excommunicate and may not be inflicted upon the Excommunicate VII Therefore Roman Catholicks have not rightly besides this Excommunication which they call the lesser and have most properly defined it to be only a deniall of the Sacrnments added moreover an other which they term the greater Excommunication and Anathema And have against the clear sense of Scripture defined it to be an interdiction of Churches private Commerce and all other lawfull converse because the Apostle in the 1 Corinth 14. openly sheweth that neither the Heathen nor any other Persons whatsomever were forbidden from the hearing of the Divine Word from the Readings Thanksgivings and Prayers of the Christians VIII It appeareth from what hath been said that Excommunication is nothing else then a solemne and publick interdiction of the Sacraments and chiefly of the Lords Supper which the Apostle especially calleth a Communion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as was said in the beginning The Elders taking notice and voycing the same before whereby they that sin may repent and again be admitted to the Sacraments IX Here then ariseth a Question Whither any man for committing of a sin or living in filthiness should be removed from the use and participation of the Sacraments he being desirous to receive the same with other Christians The Question here is moved concerning him that professeth the same Faith with us that hath entred the same Church by Baptism and doth not dissent therefrom in Doctrine as we laid it down in the fifth but erreth only in life and manners This then is demanded Whither in the holy Scriptures there is extant either any Precept or example whereby it is commanded or taught that such should be removed from the Sacraments X. Our Answer is that there is not any such extant But rather that contrary both Examples and Precepts are to be found every where in the Bible For we find it written by Moses Exod. 12.23 24. Numb 9. Deut. 16. That every Circumcis'd Male should appear thrice every year before the Lord To wit in the Feast of unleavened Bread in the Feast of Weeks and that of Tabernacles For that Law commandeth strangers also if they be Circumcis'd to celebrate the Passover together with the Jews And likewise it is commanded that the unclean and they that are travelling should upon the same day of the second Moneth and after the same manner eate the Passover with the Jews And it is moreover added that he shall be put to death that shall neglect the Celebration of the Passover viz. he that neither travelleth nor is unclean Wherefore God hath willed and commanded all the Circumcis'd to Celebrate the Passover Neither hath he excluded any from this Sacrament or from other Rites Ceremonies or Sacrifices except uncleane Persons XI In Leviticus there are diverse Sacrifices commanded for diverse sins whither they be committed by ignorance or error or willingly and wilfully by which these sins should be expiate by them that have committed them Likewise God commandeth Deut. 14. That all without excepting of the wicked should at Jerusalem eate their Tenths before the Lord and he addeth the cause that so they might learn to fear their Lord Jehovah all the daies of their lives Therefore the Sacraments were Incitements to Piety and therefore none were debarr'd therefrom but all so much the more invited thereto XII Verily we do not read that any Person at any time amongst the Jews was for the foresaid cause forbid by the Priests Levites Prophets Scribes or Pharisees to come to the Sacrifices Ceremonies or Sacraments The High-Priests and Pharisees esteemed Christ and his Apostles to be most wicked Persons But we do not find during Christs Life or after his death that ever they went about to debarre them of the Sacraments and Sacrifices instituted of God yea neither did they chase any Publican Jew or any other Circumcis'd Person that liv'd impurely from the Temple or Ceremonies for they were not ignorant that the Law permitted them not to do it They reprehended indeed Christ Mat. 9. that he did

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