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Show _._8'_4_,..---w-h-o-fe·- C-f-.,,:-:.t~-:-,,,e--_.1-;b-.s-v-·e-r-:ig:-~-;-J~---t:-:--o-;CB-;h::aa_p-tpi:f m4t.~· . h ccnull Counfell ot God, Come are members not nlholly,butlll t ec asP ..1ul be(oro his c:unverli<>n· . ~ud appeJr,;llce, as hypo- 2, C:ome are me1nbers on ely Ill ~;nv I bodv ~ l I . 'l ed to tlC ) • crites, which arc.''s,wooJ, e_n <g~ t.t . ~hril! by fjich, to the brc- 3· Some arcb>·e;ymemlms, kmt to thren by the fpidt ot love. . h he belon • to Gods Somc~rcdec.qerlmanbers,wh;chthou..; t Y f r, El:lcion, & are truly ing,·~tfed into Chrill Jefi,s,_y2:~';{'et:;~-em have no livd t lcnie of the powu and vcrtue ot '' . t '- c ~Ie 1., 1 . rmc to a m m that h3th a de.1d pal fey, wh1ch lhKe toha' ")!1_\C ~~c·' t·o,· ·t t'lt;l" ~i,ho~t feeling and nouriflnnent,yn. t oug It rcm.tll · · - . J b l being joyned to the body, it m.ty be r~covere Y_ t 1e vc1 cue ot £0me !hong medicine, amlnu_dc whole as rh:_ ot!1ei. ". . . . Of chis {o;t arc Excom:nuniC.ttd perftms,tor 111 _re,.ud. ~fchw ingr.1ffi11g,they are uue members, 1nd c.wnot be qu·te cut oil from thebocly-uf Chri:r, Juh. w. ~~ - And thoug~ t~~y be huld,cn as cnt offt'rum .the holy Comrnun:o_n of t.l:£· &:chtllll by the Chw· h 11i1re · as alfo becaufC Chnllr~tlh<th m hcHcn, \\hJt the c cs CCI ' .1 ·r. b r · h r 1 Church hath done on eJrth; a: d hn:cwae ccamc_ m t e!l;•: vcs. they w~nt the fre~ p.dfJ!lC of the life and vertu·~ oJ: the l[•lrrt at gr~cc,till c_hey b.e to:1c~1ed with repf;nta_nce; yet they arc: not ~h~lly cut offtrom the !oCietic of the f~tchtull, becaufe the ieed. ot (uch rcnuineth in them, and that lmmeth the bond·of conJunl.hon with Chrill-. Anfw. Thofc godly learned Divines, who <l<>; thus.Jrgue, wee doc fo highly eflwnc, and Co deeply reverence tn the Lord, thJt were thccauleour owne,and not the Lords,wce!hould rJthoc let. it £111, then defend ir, by oppofition to the grave judgeme1.1ts ol ft1ch holy S.tims. But heaulc we€ may not accept perfons Ill t~e things ofChrill, wee ~ re furccd to ~xcule onr [elves from fu~nut· ting'co their judocments in this caule, which yet generally m o· thers wee yeeld t~tO them; Our anfwertherefor~ is, that how~oever fiJ<;h excommunicate perfons a~ arc truly f.mhfu/I ( notwnh·. fiandin<> the ccofure of excommunication) becaufe the ~ced ot faith re~inech in them; yet to the fo=ietie of the faitbfuU, )Oyn~ 1n a p3 rticul.Jr viftble Churcb, they arc not knit, bu~ wholly ~E 0, from their Communion: for it is not the feed of faith, nor /&llh lt :!Clf~ thatkcitt~:t.h a ~n to tbif .OJ.' tb;t partioular vijib!e Cb~~tch, .. ' · · . · b.ut. Se~--~ . whofe Children have rigbt tQ Baptif~e~ but an holy 1""Fiffo" of ;b< f•irb, and profelfed fi1bj~Cti-;;;~~ cl;'------ 9.~hfpfuelllofGhrt!!m t_hw Comn~union. Which prote!liun, when a , 1a1 . ~an hath vwlated by lome notorious 1cand.1lous crime or by fwiltull ob!lill:lcy_, in ftandi~g out in any oficnce a);':,1in([ th~ l'Ule O the Gofpd, he IS now Jehvc1ed llllto Saran, aud ·therefore wholly cut offf,·o·n th: Co~zmrm!on_ofrhe Ch,mh,aud conlcquemly fron_1 the (e,;l:s thereof: lumfelte from the Lo•dJ ub!e, his feed . ( wh1ch are hts members )_from B3prrf.m: he i5 not now as a dead palfey mem~er, cut ~ff trom the boJy; Nc p ~rs fncuo~ ti'AJJII/t ; the Lord Jeius ?uy fill~ l.ty huld n;x>1~ him by his Svirit, whm yet ~e cannot 111 .my lively m~nn;:r tor the time ].,y hold upon Chrt!! ; and Co. he m.ty llJH rcm.une a member of che inviJ1b!.: Clm;ch of th: ~cll·b:ll'~•c, when y_et he ,h.tth neither p.trt, nul' poruon, nor tdtowihip In the pJmcubr huck and vitiblc Chu:ch ofChrilt Jdi",lmz u a<~" He•tbm, or oJ P,.b/ic.m. Now becAule the S.tcr.uncms Me not given to the invi!~b!o <:hurch,uor to the memb_ers th~ .·eof, "' Jit:b, but to the vil<blc par~ tlcular Churches of Chni1 Jeius, a1hl to the members thereof· fuch therefore as arc cut off ti·mn their mcmbc,Jike Cnmmunio1; with the vif;ble Chtirch, are cat of!' aile> from the fc.tles of due Communion, B.1ptilinc, and tho Lods Supper. As therefore woe doe not receive an Hwbm to the fellow!hip of the Supper nm· their fced to B.lpti :rne, fo neither <IJre wee receive all Excnm:,unicate perfun (who is to us as an H~~cl1cn) unto. the Lords Supper nor his children to BJptiG11c. . ' Objef1. It is objeB:"d ag.line in the behalfe of t~e children ofExwmmunicatc perfons, that it is not in the power of nun to cut them off from Chrill, thou~h they b~ excommunicate: the perfC>.~ nail fin of the P.uent, nuy not keepe the bleffing from the childe, and . therefore not depri vc it of the lib~rcie of the ordin.mce of God. All[w. The fame power of Chrill: dut ratifieth the Cenfure of the Church agJin It the Excommunicate p.trent, though it doc noc CUt off the childe from Chrijl, (no more- then the Father ) yet il C~ts him off [rom tbeoumnrd fruition of the Col)en:znt ofChri!l whh hrs Church,and from the (<.Ju thereof: For as Chrill gave the childe no right unto Baptifme, but by the Fathers right unto the C!>vrn~nt~ an>l Communion pf tl:l~ . C!J,grch _; Co if he taketh a-way |