Jackson on Article XXXIII: Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided
Bernard C. Jackson, 1900
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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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The power to excommunicate and absolve offenders was given to the Church by our Lord (See Matt. xviii., 15-18) and was exercised in™ Apostolic days (See 1 Cor. v., 3-5, and 2 Cor. ii., 6 and 7). This Article lays down four principles tc be followed. First, both the denunciation and the reconciliation of the offenders is to be open, or public. Second, the sentence of excommuni- cation is to be pronounced or remitted by ‘‘a judge that hath authority thereto.’’ Third, the: judgment is to be recognised and fulfilled by the corporate attitude of the Church toward the offen- der.’ Fourth, the condition and method of restora- tion is ‘‘ by penance ’’ (per poenitentiam). The chief provision for the exercise of discipline in our Church is in the rubrics at the beginning of the Communion Office. The Address‘in the Com- mination Service should be carefully studied. It reveals the mind of the Church on the subject of the exercise of ‘‘ godly discipline.”’
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