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A59660	The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between Himself and the faithfull ... cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author ... / by Thomas Shepard ...	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.	1663 (1663)	Wing S3108; ESTC R14745	40,639	50

suffering that woman Iezebel verse 20. 3. Because this notion of Felo de se takes away the use of a Ministerial Judge in the Church in case of the offences and Scandals of this or that particular Member of the Church to determine of the same Supposing a person could ecclesiastically cut himself off from the Church by his very act of sin there would then he no room left for a competent Judg to enquire into the crime whereof he is accused and to make particular application of the Rule to the case of the s●nning brother and pass sentence according to the true desert and nature of the offence That God hath ordained a ministerial judge is plain M●tth 18.17 if he neglect to hear the Church the Church is to be heard the phrase of our Saviour Christ implies judicial superiority on the Churches part and the inferiority and subjection of a part or member to that whole c. but now this Felonie denieth this order which Christ hath established Though a person deserve excommunication perhaps yet it must appear that he do deserve it neither doth his wickedness for which he deserves excōmunication render him a non-Member till he be excommunicated and hence in this case is very considerable what is asserted by that deservedly famous divine Mr. Cotton in his book intituled the keyes of the kingdom of heaven viz. Though the Iury have given up their judgment and verdict yet the Malefactor is not thereupon legally condemned much less executed but upon the sentence of the judge in l●ke sort here saith he though the Brethren of the Church do with one accord give up their vote and judgment for the censure of an offender yet he is not thereby censured till upon the Sentence of the Presbyterie 4. Because the binding and loosing mentioned Mat. 16.19 the opening and shutting of the doors of the Church by the keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven belong to the same power or subject hence therefore as none may intrude himselfe or can regularly be admitted or let into this or that particular Church without a church-Church-act intervening so none can be shut out and deprived of that Membership therein as abovesaid without an act of the same power intervening Ejusdem potestatis est ligare solvere claudere aperire Mr. Cottons keyes cap. 7. pag. 45. 5. Taken from Mat. 18.15 16 17 18. Which command and institution leaves Churches under a solemn obligation of duty that when this offending Brother or Church-Member deserveth excommunication that censure be duly inflicted on him so as that thereby viz. the sentence or censure past against him in case he will not hear the Church he must be to the Church as an He then Man and a Publican so that it is not a matter of ind●fferency to be observed or not to be observed but after the steps taken mentioned in verses 15 16. and the brother remain obstinate 't is Christ's Charge that then that publick process verse 17. be attended whereby the offender become's ecclesiastically bound according to verse 18. Christ therefore requires a Church-act to intervene as abovesaid and so the offender is not felo de se. 6. Because a scandalous Member of a Church by virtue of Christs Institution Mat. 18.17 is to be accounted not as an Heathen and Publican but stil a Church-Brother if he will hear the Church this is clearly intimated in those words If he neglect to hear the Church runing conditionally which suppose that if he will hear he is not to be as an Heathen i. e. his Membership shall not cease notwithstanding the Scandalous sin Committed Therefore by his wickedness and offence he is not felo de se. 7. Because this felonie objected tend's to render that Ordinance of Church-Censure and Adm●nition laid down Mat. 18.15 c. vain and useless for the felo de s● by his sin becomeing a non-Member and so no Church-Brother hence let a private Member of the Church go to tell him his fault in the sence of the text which is in order to more solemn Church-proceeding and Iudicature in case he will not hear or let the Church require him in th● name of Christ to hear in such a Church-way as is there spoken of he may tell them that he is no Brother of the Church for he hath by his offence cut off himselfe and therefore they have nothing to do with him that that rule of Christ concernes only the Brother or the Church-Member not one that is out of the Church as he is being felo de se and therefore may say according to 1 Cor. 5.12 what have you to do to Iudge me that am without If his sin be not yet great enough to render him felo de se he suspect that therefore the Church may have power over him is going about to bind him on earth so that being thereupon also bound in heaven he shall become bound from an orderly entrance in at the doores of other Sister-Churches without Repentance first held forth to the acceptance of the Church which he offended 't is then but to commit another fault whereby he may be sure he shall be felo de se and so he is beyond the Churches reach and this frustrates Church-discipline and renders vain that ordinance of Christ above mentioned 8. To deny the intervening of this Church-act of Excommunication is to deny unto and withold from a person deserving to be cast out of the Church an ordinance and meanes which may be for the saving of his soul 1 Cor 5.4 5. It is not enough to say that the felo de se makes himself no member and so the Church is freed from his communion which would pollute it as fully as if he were excōmunicated for God's meanes are not empty or vain meanes and to think to reach the full end but not in Gods way and by observing his meanes ordained is neither Christian wisdome nor Gospel policy yea to deny the application of this ordināce of excōmunication to the offending Brother is to deny a means for the Salvation of his Soule and to deny a remedy for his Repentance and the healing and gaining of our Brother again 9. Because the Holy Ghost command's the Church to Iudge them that are within 1 Cor. 5.12 Do you not judge them that are within All that are within are subject to Ecclesiasticall judicature and therefore cannot by Scripture-Warrant be felones de se. 10. Because this notion of felones de se evacuate's that power given of Rebukeing before all 1 Tim. 5.20 which is to be done without partiality whether they be young or old rich or poor c. ver 21 and so likewise takes away that Authority given of reproving with all long-suffering 2 Tim. 4.2 leaves no room for obedience to that command 2 Thes. 3.15 of Admonishing the offender as a Brother c. add thereto that this notion of the felo de se supposeth some disobedience in a Church-member of