Chap.i$. accerdin3toStMAT TH a VV. 469 comntanicatarna vexirit, excomarunicatm shire: erm atf érre habeat axtiquerum caxoxuss axthorirar, And in theyear t a6o. Leopard anEnglifhDoor anfwered the Popes Legat, whoplea- lac Revia. dcd thatall Churches were the Popes, that they werehis indeed RV. Pow (fo it went then for currant, but) tuition, non fr,.iriarte,.defenfo pas. 'r 3 ne, noxdiffipatione. If he fhould cart out yoga and keep Chan, in the Ark, they would decline and difclaimhis cenfures. Let bim be into time a an Heathen andapublican ] i.e. Nei- thermeddle, nor make wich him : have thou neither facrednor ci- B Hatton vil fociety with him. The Jews hated the pretence, the fire, the Md "b' fafhion, the books of an Heathen : As now a PapiOmaynot jQyn, sandy his spe- with a Procettant in any holy aftion, no not in faying over the ruure Errropm. Lords prayer, or Paying Grace at table. Howbeit ofold a Jew might eat at the fame table with an Heathen, Levit.8: and come to the fameTemple with Publicans, fo they wereProfrly,tes,Lult; i 8. But theymight do neither of theft to anobftinate excommu- nicate, no more may we. Rebellion is as witchcraft, and oufti- nacy as bad as idolatry, i Saar. i 5 23 . Verle t8. What(iever ye bind] Let no mandcfpife your cenfure, for I will ratifie it. Whatever you binde, i.e. forbid, pro. hibit,&c. As whatever ye loofe, that is, command, permit, that! be feconded and fettled by me in heaven, fo that your word (hall Purely ftand. Further, to binde taith Cameros, is Co pronounces thingprophane ; to loofe is to pronounce it lawfull : as when the Jews fay that David and Ezekiel boundnothing, that wxs no bound in the Law. Verle 19. If two ofyou fhal! agree] Howmuchmore then a whole Church full of you : Great is the power ofjoync prayer, 411.12.12. Dan. 2.18. Thofe in the Revelation whole prayers w went up as a pillar of incenfe and came before the.,Lord as O.; found of many waters s the thundring legion, the .Chri'.tiansi.e Tertulians time, that came, an armyof them, notmure.to.befeechl then tobefiegeGod by their prayers.. This made.Henrp,the third, P¢tan in Da- Kingof France forbid the Proteftant- houfholders in his domini- mitt ons topray with their families t.Anda great Queen tail, that the sp,beai fmtr feared more the prayers of , ?obi; . Knox, andhis,complices then an armyofthirty thou(and men, .41.1.4._ the houfe _ (hook where the Ditciples were praying. Thedevil was forced to throw in the ob- ligation co Lather and.forneoothers that were praying for a young A and Mop.. manathathadyeelOedhim elfbodyandfoulto the devil. forsnony, 788. and
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