Exceeding Sin¡amp of Sin. Spirit raved in the day of the Lord Jefus : So p y J that the delivering up to Satan was ameans ap- pointed by God to favehis foul : But to deliver upany one tothe power ofSin, is no means to favehis foul, that is a means to damn the foul, and not to fave it. So then, you fee the reafon grounded cleerly upon Scripture, That it is worfe tobe deliveredup untoany fin than tobe delivered to the Devil; forhe that was delive- red toSatan, it was for the laving of the foul ; but he that is delivered toSin, it is for the dam- ningofhis foul. This requires a little opening. 02e0. You will fay, How can the delivering up to Santanbefor thefaxingofthefold? Anf '. It will be needful for cleering ofthis, to tell youwhat this delivering up toSatan was and the truth is, this delivering up to Satan, or excommunication from the Church, this was a mof dreadful` thingwhen done in a right way it was done when theChurch was gathered to- gether by the power of Jefus Christ As cer- tainlywhere there are a companyofSaints, that at leafoutwardly foappear ; aChurch; that in a folemn manner is gathered together, through the power of Jefus Chrif, having their Elder goingbefore them, the Officer ofthe Church ; when they in a folemn manner, in the power of Chrift, (hall car out any one defervedly from Church Communion ; this is a delivering a man or woman to Satan ( this is another manner of bufinefs thanordinarily Nye were wont to have, by the Ordinary, or Commiffary, and Dean, in the
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