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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ... We have another argument from 1 Thes. iii. 14, "And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed." Here the Syriac helpeth us much, "And if any man obey not these words, which are contained in this epistle, let that man be separated from you, neither have company with him, that he may be ashamed." Gualther upon the place saith, the Apostle speaks de disciplina ecclesiastica, what discipline they ought to have in the church, and the end thereof. So Calvin, Beza, Piscator, Zanchius, Diodati, the Dutch Annotations, Gomarus, also Mariana, Cajetan, Salmeron, Gorranus, Esthius, in lib. 4, sent. dist. 19, sect. 7, and divers others following Augustine, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Theophylact, Theodoret, Aquinas, all these do apply it to ecclesiastical discipline and censure. Some controversy there is whether this text reach as far as excommunication (which doth not belong to this present argument), but certainly it reacheth to a public church censure, and is more than the withdrawing of private company and fellowship, either because of personal or private injuries, or because of profaneness: For, 1. Hie offence spoken of by the Apostle is not a mat ter of civil or personal injury, but of scandal; he speaks of idle bodies that walk disorderly, not working at all; and if these must be noted and separated, how much more, saith Theophylact, those who commit crimes and wickedness? 2. Here is contumacy added to the offence, "If any man obey not our word by this epistle," intimating that upon occasion of this epistle, those that walk disorderly were to be solemnly admonished, and required to work in quietuess, and to eat their own bread; which if after admonition they would not d...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130493199
- ISBN 13 9781130493191
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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