Ellis on Article XXXIII: Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided
John Ellis, 1700
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Article XXXIII. Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided
That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
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Obj. 1. Christ has said, Mat. 13. 39. Let both grow together until the Harvest ; which 5 to be understood of the Good and the Bad : heres fore the Wicked ought not to be Excommunicated,
Answ. Christ speaks there concerning Hy- pocrites, that cannot be dilcerned from those thar are sincerely Good : Or elle he 1s distin» gvishing rhe Duty of Ministers from thar of a Magistrate : Lee them grow, i.e. do nar kill them.
Obj. 2. In the O!d Test ament God comm :::ded that All should krep the Passover, Num. 5. 10,
Answ. God commanded all that wer” Mcem-
bers of his People ro keep rhe Passovery {xo9. | 12. 43. ’ There was a Command concerning
the Presumpruous, rhat rhcy should be cut off from-among his People ‘..m, 15. yo. and those that were defiled wr kepr back, Na.g.6. Now uader the Ceremonial Uiciooanch rhe Moral was typiticd and figured, Obj
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Thirty Nine Articles. 75 Obj. 3- John Baptized a Generation of Vi- pers, Luke 3. 7. Answ. Altho’ they were a Generation of Vipers, whom Fohn Baptized ; yer they were no longer Vipers, when they were once Baptt- zed, at least not so in Profession. Obj. 4. Ir seems not to be mm the Power of
. Men to exclude any One from the Kingdom of
God, and to thrust Others down to Hell.
Answv. The Church condemns no Man, bur aprees with, and execures the Judgment of God, by declaring it according to’ express Command ; and it delivers Men over to Sa- ran, not by its own Authority, but in the Name of Christ, 1 Cor. 5. 4.
Obj. 5. Sr. Paul says of him that world by m means obey his Word, that such an one should be esteemed, not as an Enemy, but admonished as a Brother, 2 Thesl. 3. 14. 15. Whereas @ Brother ws not to be lock’d npon as a Heathen op a Publican.
Answ, The Excommunicated are called
Brethren, partly by Profession, and because
they were Brethren, 1 Cor. 5; 11. partly by Hope ; because upon Repentance, he may be- come a Brother again ; and partly by Love, and a Desire and Study ro save him, which
| ought ro be the End of Excommunicarion :
Besides, the Apostle did nor say, Account him aS a Brother, bur admoni{h him as such.
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