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Show - - 1"'' If: ,.. - Reformation oft he Churches in Eng 1a n d• Chap. 7· them Ch~trcbu, which were non~ befm•.e , but to reduce and re. ltore hem to their Primitive Injluwwn. II.! . k owledgeth, That 111 the t Second! y' The pub lick,_ S ervzce-bodj" "oiCci pline; That ~otorious " Pmnitiu Clmrrb, there was a go Y d punifhed in tlus world; "finners were put W 0 Pen p. enanbec e(' and in the day o f t I1 e Lo 1·d ' "th It both their foules nught . ave pie miv-ht be the more " an.d others admom· n1 e_d bY cdhle trD eixfcaimpl ine,' is a ot hing ( C,u t h _t he ' ' ati·;tid to offend. Wluch go Y 1 • •1.,ht be refiorcd agame. " ,Booke) muc I1 to be d e( i 1· ed ' •t 1a t. It m ,..i, lljljinncr .r. I r 1· s t 1le re-f h C mmuuttons .1ga . E I d Sec the begi<wing o t e 0 • Jhce oithe Churches ot "f ~" ' tore ,tcknow!edged by th_eCv~t y l. difcipline, is t1or pcrfct1:,butde-th 1t the ;-rdcnt efface_ ot llltpc ~- ·11·vcgod/u dijcipline. · d · · t ·om the >lml "' ; r; • • d fet1:ive, ·"' Jwervmg, '. /, 1' b.·./. before the C.ttecln;mc,Jtts or c- Thirdly, In the p~tultc"--- '" '""-- res ofclilcrction, and h.lVe "red, That when children c?~d f0°.~~~min B.rptijinc, theyfhould " huned what others promt e 1 u h and with their own con" then themfel ve> with thea· owth mo . fi '~nd confirme the Clmc : " lent openly before the Clmlrc ran ef God they will evermore "Alld' alto prom.a rc , t h a t _b y. lt 1. c grace o ' h' 11 - b!erve and keep li1ch t mgs "~ncle.tvut~r h (-]ves bttl!u Yt o 0 ' rr d t em c ' h and confeffton they have auente to. "as by thea· own mout. fi ·ds after acknowledgcth to Which courfe the Booke 111 af ~w ~~:trch of times part, That chilbe agreeable with the u!Jge 0 ~ c_ been infirut1:ed in Chri ftian drcn coming to perfet1: ag~~teffi:v~,h~ir own faith, and promife to Religion, fhould ope_nly ptG d Which direttion (if it were as be obedient to th~ \~Ill of-{] 0 ~rdered) doth plainly hold fonh, duly obferved, as It IS ex/ptcdy( h y· call it) doth not acknow-that h Ch h Of Enff an as t e d {' h. to t e urc "d . b . fthc Church, an OUJ1 t ledge any to be confitmc men:ll c~ o have exprefly confeffed their partake of the Lords Supper, tth t a~~ romifed obedience to ~he taith openly befo~e t?f~ ~htre~dufly d~ne, and not pcrfunt1:only, will of God. Wh1ch 1 It e . . . of members into the . {( hat oflike nature wtth our rece!Vlng , IS omew . . h b Covenant. Church, and )oynm~ t em Y. bifin·e the Commu1lion,the Minificr Fourthly, In the &chortatwl e . e That if any of them be "isdireacdtodenounceunrothepeopl '{] d ·ofhis Word, "a blafphemer o f God ' ar;> hinderer- or a· n erct 1 other grievous "an adulterer, or be in mahce, or envte, or 111 .u Y "crime, sea, 2. 113 '' ct'ime, th~y ihould bewaile t~elt fint\es, arid rlot cdn\e to that «holy T!ble, Iefr atttr the taking bfthat SacrarheHt; the Devi!I c6 emer into thctn, as he entered into ]11dar, &c.· Which plainly :irgueth, they Would allow t10 fcandalous perfon td p.trcake in the Cortln\tinion of the Lord~ Table: All thefc thirtgs preft1rJpofed, really performed, art:I letioo!Jv attended to,rhight bpeh a drldre to fui!P.r'J paffi.(iet'.-of :1 ttiot~ full ;m~ perfet\: Reformation. s E c T. I I. re~:Jering certain PropofitiONS tenchng to tbe Reformati' on of tht ' fftur1he9 in England. Propdf. 1 ·w· Here gedly_, Minifiers be _a·lrea_dy planted in any · Congte~auons, let them ( wnh due encourage< rt1ent fr0m tile SWt) t:all die people to fdlenme humifiatien before the Lotd for theit own fins_;& thofe of t-lieir fathers they h;tve imitateH, So did E:tr.~, and Neimhiab,'with the Li!vitcs and P!·iells1 artd upGI!! (he like tidion~,. lV.Wem.p.2.2,~,4· & Ezr" 10. 1,· 2. 9, io. For ~hougH the PM!iament,-& the whole KingdorlJI:' liav'e protejled, at~d Citvoun-ted ft!!fimnatioti fo•' .:h(! time to Eome~_ ye~ they have ca'Ufetall6 to be h!ir'J'tblcd' and that fhr'dtighly f'?f the tlme palt. ~- l.et fucli of the' pcople',ls arc_ofgoo<i'k1row'lec;lge hi·ilie wayes 0-fGdtl,.:tnd Ofapproved-converfatiun;· pke up di·;ic' eoifrle which theSc'rvlce-book( as hath-l5cen facid) giveth-an hint 0f; Rin'!< tbe7r CI1Vount fin-nurly m zdc in BJptijine ,. 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