Madan on Article XXXIII: Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided
Martin Madan, 1772
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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 Church, is rightly cut off from the Unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken, ef the whole Multitude of the Faithful, as an * Heathen and Publican, until he be openly 3 reconciled by Penance, * and received into the Church by a Juage that halb Authority thereunto,
- 1 Cor. v. 4,5. In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, with the Power of our Lord Jesus Christ. To deliver such an one unto Satan for the Destruc- tion of the Flesh, that the Spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus. |
Hatt. xviii. 17. If he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church; but if he neglect ta hear the Church, let him be unto thee as an Heathen and a Publican.
3 2 Cor. il. 6, 7, 8. Sufficient to such a Man is this Punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch Sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you, that ye would confirm your Love towards him, —-
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