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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25460	Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3218; ESTC R36639	391,570	601

is a sin not supposed only but really and in its own nature he ought to take the admonition 1 As from God 1 Sam. 25.31 32. 2 Meekly as from thy Brother 3 Thankfully as from both SECT VII Quest. 1 Whether a Heathen may not be admonished Quest. 2 Whether Admonition be alike to be given to all Quest 1 Whether a Heathen may not be admonished In re●ard that the Scripture calls upon us to admonish a Brother we are not altogether to neglect any of whom we have h●pes of b●●●ering of what professio● soever he be For 1 By nature all men are our Brethen we are all of one sto●k and kind as through that relation may admonish him when he doth offend 2 By providence the Heathen Turke or Jew may be our neighbour and upon that relation he may be admonished at least as to civil crimes and as far as you can do good in spiritual but if he will not hear never bring it before the Church since she judgeth none that are without 1 Corinth 5.12 13. 3 By Law he may be our kinsman and this will lay a more particular engagment upon us to give him our best advice in things that may conduc● unto his good b●t for the making of any judiciall processe for reclaiming of him in an Ecclesiastical way it is not to be done the Church leaving such wholly to the judgment of God When the Scripture calls upon us to reprove a Brother it holds out that above all others we should most heed a Christian not that altogether we should neglect any in whom we see the least hope of good Quest. 2. Whether admonition be alike to be given to all Though admonition be to be dispenced and given to all without exceptions yet it is not to be given without respect of persons we shall lay down several distinctions and so close this chapter 1 Betwixt age and age we ought to have a respect to gray hairs and reverence the hoary head 2 Betwixt person and person some are of a more bashfull and good nature then others 3 Betwixt calling and calling some are Ministers of the Gospel some not We ought to behold him as a Father 4 Betwixt sin and sin there are degrees of sin and there are degrees of temptation which the wife reprover is to observe CHAP. 14. Of Excommunication This is the effect of rejected Admonition so desirous is God of mens good that if they will not amend by wholesome reproof they should be corrected with the sharper censure of Excommunication the last refuge of an offended brother is the Officers of the Church and if their reproof be not accepted it ends in this severe correction which is either the lesser or the greater 1. The lesser excommunication is a keeping back the offending Brother from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper untill that satisfaction be given to the Church-Officer for the sin committed which is an acknowledgement of his sin before the Church in general or the Churches-Officer and the party offended in particular 2. The greater Excommunication is not only a keeping him back that is obstinate against the Churches admonition from that Sacrament of the Lords Suppet but a judicial cutting of him off from the body of the Church which is the Body of Christ and leaving him as a heathen to be judged at the Lords coming down to judgment Of this greater excommunication we shall speak of these following heads 1 The nature of it 2 The ends of it 3 The form of it 4 Resolve some Questions SECT I. The nature of this greater Excommunication will not be unknown to him that considers this description It is a judicial casting out of r● factory stubborne and obstinate offenders from the Church of Christ and delivering the n over un●o Sathan for the preservation of the Churches peace and honour 1 It is a judicial casting out It is not to be done out of rash and furious passion but according to the Law and Rule of God and that not by every one but those to whom the power of binding is given and he not by his own authority but by the advice or at least the knowledge and consent of the most worthy Members of that Church from which the party is to be cast 1 Cor. 5.45 2. Of stubborn c. this is to be done after all admoni●ions counsels and reproofs of the Church are slighted and contemned It ought to be the last Act of the offended Church and all means are to be tryed to reclaim an offended brother before this be put in execution and practise an obsti●ate offender is properly the Subject of Excommunication The offence is not necessary alwayes to be in matters of fact Drunkenness Swearing Sabbath-breaking Perjury Bl●sphemy but it will and ought to be extended to matters of another kind as Teachers of false Doctrine Disturbers of the Churches peace and Infringers or Contemners of her Laws 1 Tim. 19.20 Tit. 3.10 2 Thes. 3.6 3. From the Church of Christ Not to speak of those kinds of Excommunication which were used against Offenders in the Church of the Iews proportionable to these now used in the Church of the Christians It is affirmed that the party so judicially cast out is not a member of the Church of Christ nor was not before that is since his refusal to hear the Church in her admonitions at that time he began to be a Heathen and a Publican and these are not of the Church of Christ then he began to be as a Dog and a Swine unto whom holy things are not to be given Mat. 7.6 The Church therefore doth but pronounce the sinner to be what indeed he is that is not a member of the Church by which sentence the Church looks upon him as cast out or cut off from their body 4. And delivering them over unto Sathan this is the fearfull issue of Excommunication and yet no other then the Lords mind against that Corinthian for his sin of incest 1 Cor. 5.7 And Pauls practise for the Apostacy of Alexander 1 Tim. 1.20 Out of the Church is to be out of Christ and to be cut off from Christs body is to be thrown among the branches to be burned As a Judge by his sentence by vertue of that Commission given him from the supream Magistrate gives the Prisoner over unto execution being dead before in Law as soon as his fact was committed so the Church-Officer by vertue of that Commission given him of Christ Iohn 20.23 assisted by the Church-Members as Justices gives the sinner over unto Satan whose he was as soon as obstinacy appeared in him 4. For the preservation of the Churches peace and honour the end of the Church in this act is not the sinners damnation but his salvation Christs honour and her own peace but these things fall more properly under the next Section SECT II. The Church in this her Discipline hath before her eye and in this judicial sentence proposeth to herself