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II.
Reverend
Mr.
Il
ithard
Baxter.
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§
3z;.
2.
And
as
to
the fecond
Ot
eftion,
[What
thra Difcspline
n
?l
It
is
confide
-
rable, r.
Asto the
Matter
;
z. As
to the
Perron;
3.
As
to the.
Place
;
4.
As
to the
Manner
;
and
5.
As
to
the
Endt
1.
As
to
the
Matter
;
We
are agreed
that it conffteth in
receiving
°
Per-
foes
into the Church
;
in
preferving and healing thofe
that
are
in the
Church
,
and in calling
out
thofè from
the Communion
of
the
Church which
are
unfit for
it
,
and in Abfolving and Reftoring
the Excommunicate when
they are penitent. And therefore
it
is
called,
The Power
and
Exercife
of
the Keys:
By
thefe Keys,
the Door
is.
first
opened to
Believers
and their
Seed,
and the Bi.
Ihops-judge who are
fit
to-be let in
by Baptifpr.
When
any
are lapfed
into
fcan-
dalous
fin,
they are to
be
proceeded with'as
Chrift
hathdire
&ed,
Matth. 18.15,16,
17
We muft
firft
tell
men privately
of their
private Faults,and
if
they hear
us
not,
we muff take with
us
two
or
three
;
if
they hear
not
them, we mutt
tell
the
Church
;
-and
finally,
if
they hear not
the'
Church,
they mull
be
to
us as
Heathens
and Publicans. And whatfoever
is
thus bou
rd
on
Earth
!hall
be bound
in Hea-
ven, and whatfoever
is
looted
on
Earth hull
be looled
'in
Heaven
'verf.-
t8.:
The
Church
is
the
Body
of
thrift,
his Spou(è, his
Family,
his
Gat den
;
It
is
a
'Com-
munion of
Saints
which
is
to
be held
in
it
t
It
is
commanded to put
away
wicked
Perfons from among th'etn; and not
to keep company,
If
any
that
is
called
a
Bro-
ther
be
a fornicator,
or covetous,
or
an idolater
¡or
4t
railer,-
or
,a
drunkards
or
an extorri
aner,
with
fisch
a
one no
not to
eat, t
Cor.
5.
t
1,
s3.
And,
we are
to withdraw our
felves
-from every Brother
that
walketh
dsfor
rly"and.ta
note them,
and
to
have
no
eoln-
pan, with
them,
that
they
Mal
be
afhamed,
z
Theft-
3.
6,
14.
If-
any"
comae
to us;and
bring
not
fiend
Do
&rine-,"`we muff
noreceave
him into
our ho,ofei, nor
bid
'him
good
feed,-lefb
we
be
partakers of
.hie
eehihdeeds,
a
John rd.
a
r
A
Man
that
is
an
Here
-'
tick, mutt, after the
fitll
and fecond
Admonition ,'he
avoided,= asPSelf
condemned,'
7sr.
3.
sour.
And
the penitent mull be'reftored and
re-
admitted.
All
this
is
a
greed
on.
3z4. z.
And
as
to-the
Perfons
who
are
Parties
ip-
this
Tranfaétion,we are
Agreed'
s. 'Thar
it
is
filch
Perlons
as
defire
Communion with
us,
that
ire to
be
admitted,
(
being fit),
and
Hach
as
havingCoinmunibn
with
us,
become unmeet for it
'that
are to
be
caft out, &c.
fo
that
it
is
to
be exercifed
on Perlons, fó far
as
they
are to
have Communion with
us,
and
not on thofe
that
are uncapable
of
that
Commrí
-"'
nion. z.
That
fententially
it mutt
be
done
by
the
Pallor
or
Goveriour
of that
particular Church,
which the
Perron
is
to
he
admitted into, or call out
oft
'And
by
the
judgment
of
the Parlors
of
other neighbour Churches,
when
they
-alto,
-as
..
Neighbours,
are
to
refaié'Communion with
him.
3.
That
executively
it
is
to be
done
by
every one in their
places,
the Pallors giving or denying
the
Sacraments,
the, and the People holding or
refufing'Communion or
Coíiïpany with Men ac-
cording
as
they are judged by'
the
Church..I think
there
is
no'
Contloverfie among
us
about
there.
§
-3
zç.
3.
And therefore the
Work
will refolve as
of
the
pláee I.
viz.
That theEx.
ecatson
mutt'
be
in
that place where he had or defiled
Communion,
or
was
capable,
of
it
e
And therefore that
the
yargment Ihould
be
by thofethat
being
upon
thoptaee,
have
fullelt
opportunity
to know the Perlons and
the
Cafe:
Even
by
thotel'aftors
wba
labour aniongff
the People that
are over them
si,theLord,
s
Theft
5.
iz,
r3. who
have
the rule over them,
and
preach to them the
Word
of
God,
Hebr,
13.
7,
17, 24:
and
not
by
ehoit
that
are
grangers to them.
f 326.
ç.
And
as
to
the
Manner, all
Divines are agreed,
That
it
is
not
to
be
like
the
proceedings of
a
Civil
Court,
where
there
is
no
more to
be done,
but examine
the
Cauee afid pats
the Sentence, and execute it by
Corporal
Penalties and Mul&s:
But,
r. That
it
is
to
be
managed by grave Divines, the Phyticians of
Souls
for
the
faring of
the Sinner,
if
it
may be, with great
ferioufnefs,
and light,
and weight
of
Scripture Argument, convincing the
Erroneous,
terrifying the
Secure
with the
ter
-
roars of the
Lord, reproving and admonilhing and -perfwading
the penitent
Offen-
der,
and
all
this
with Love
and Compaflton and
due
Patience;-
and
reftoring the
Penitent
with
Tendernefs and Confolation
and neceffary
Caution. Prom
all
which
it
is
evident,
That
one
liagle
Perfoo
thus
dealt
with in
cafe
of
Herehe,
may
hold
the Parlor or
Bifhop many days
time, andone
grofs
Sinner may hold him many
hours
time,
before
this
Work can
be
done
as
the Nature and
Ends of it do require.
z.
And
it
is
to
be
done by the
meer Keys of
the Kingdom of Chrilb,
by managing
God's Word by particular Application to
the
Cafe and Confcience
of
the Sinner,
and not
by
outward Force
or
Penalties.
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