The Church of England's Wish for the Restoring of Primitive Discipline: Considered, in Order to Its Being Brought to Effect : on which Occasion is Shewn the Institution, Nature, End, and Necessity of Discipline in the Church of Christ

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W. Rogers, 1703 - Penance - 285 pages

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Page 101 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 100 - 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.
Page 209 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 78 - For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
Page 32 - Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained. And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the Word of GOD, and of His Holy Sacraments; in the Name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST. Amen.
Page 105 - If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death : I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Page 202 - WILL you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the Discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this Church and Realm hath received the same...
Page 78 - To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Page 95 - I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time ; and being absent now [I write] to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare...
Page 32 - Sins thou' ** doft retain, they are retained. And be " thou a faithful Difpenfer of the Word of " God and of his Holy Sacraments ; in "the Name of the Father, and of the

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