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but to wait upon Christ, in the further proceeding of the Church.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"27.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/27.5","segments":[{"text":"Churches, for their mutual Edification and the due Performance of that publick Worship, which he requireth of them in the World.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15, 20"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"27.7","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/27.7","segments":[{"text":"To each of these Churches thus gathered according to his Mind, declared in his Word, he hath given all that Power and Authority, which is any way needful for their carrying on that Order in Worship and Discipline, which he hath instituted for them to observe, with Commands and Rules, for the due and right exerting and executing of that Power.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–18"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"27.13","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/27.13","segments":[{"text":"No Church-members, upon any Offence taken by them, having performed their Duty required of them towards the Person they are offended at, ought to disturb any Church Order, or absent themselves from the Assemblies of the Church, or Administration of any Ordinances, upon the Account of such Offence at any of their Fellow-members, but to wait upon Christ, in further Proceeding of the Church.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"33.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/33.1","segments":[{"text":"Ordinances, commanded by Christ their head and King.","proofs":["Matthew 18:19–20"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"42.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/42.1","segments":[{"text":"Christ has likewise given power to his whole Church to receive in and cast out, by way of Excommunication, any member; and this power is given to every particular Congregation, and not one particular person, either member or Officer, but the whole.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"43.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/43.1","segments":[{"text":"And every particular member of each Church, how excellent, great, or learned soever, ought to be subject to this censure and judgement of Christ; and the Church ought with great care and tendernesse, with due advice to proceed against her members.","proofs":["Matthew 18:16–18"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"46.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/46.1","segments":[{"text":"Thus being rightly gathered, established, and still proceeding in Christian communion, and obedience of the Gospel of Christ, none ought to separate for faults and corruptions, which may, and as long as the Church consists of men subject to failings, will fall out and arise amongst them, even in true constituted Churches, untill they have in due order sought redresse thereof.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"33.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/33.1","segments":[{"text":"being baptized into that faith, and joyned to the Lord, and each to other, by mutuall agreement in the","proofs":["Matthew 18:19–20"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"42.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/42.1","segments":[{"text":"Christ hath likewise given power to his Church to receive in, and cast out, any member that deserves it; and this power is given to every Congregation, and not to one particular person, either member or officer, but in relation to the whole body, in reference to their faith and fellowship.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"43.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/43.1","segments":[{"text":"And every particular member of each Church, how excellent, great, or learned soever, is subject to this censure and judgement; & that the Church ought not without great care and tendernesse, and due advice, but by the rule of faith to proceed against her members.","proofs":["Matthew 18:16–18"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"20.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/20.4","segments":[{"text":"And, for their publishing of such Opinions, or maintaining of such Practises, as are contrary to the light of Nature, or to the known Principles of Christianity, whether concerning Faith, Worship, or Conversation; or, to the Power of Godlinesse; or, such erroneous Opinions or Practises, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the externall Peace and Order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the Censures of the Church,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"23.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/23.3","segments":[{"text":"The Civil Magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven:","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"30.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/30.2","segments":[{"text":"To these Officers, the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed: by vertue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that Kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word, and Censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the Ministry of the Gospel, and by Absolution from Censures, as occasion shall require.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–18"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"30.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/30.4","segments":[{"text":"For the better attaining of these ends, the Officers of the Church are to proceed by Admonition; suspension from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper for a season; and, by Excommunication from the Church; according to the nature of the crime, and demerit of the person.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"31.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/31.3","segments":[{"text":"It belongeth to Synods and Councels, ministerially to determine Controversies of Faith, and cases of Conscience, to set down Rules and Directions for the better Ordering of the publique Worship of God, and Government of his Church; to receive Complaints, in cases of Male-administration, and, authoritatively to Determine the same: which Decrees, and Determinations, if consonant to the word of God, are to be received with reverence, and submission; not only, for their agreement with the Word, but also for the Power, whereby they are made, as being an Ordinance of God appointed thereunto in his Word.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–20"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"20.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/20.4","segments":[{"text":"And, for their publishing of such Opinions, or maintaining of such Practices, as are contrary to the light of Nature, or to the known Principles of Christianity, whether concerning Faith, Worship, or Conversation; or, to the Power of Godliness; or, such erroneous Opinions or Practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external Peace and Order which Christ has established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the Censures of the Church,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"23.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/23.3","segments":[{"text":"The Civil Magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven:","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"30.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/30.2","segments":[{"text":"To these Officers, the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed: by virtue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; 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and if he shall not hear him, to take one or two more; if he will not hear him then, to tell it unto the Church.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]},{"text":"tendering an admonition of Repentance to him with Gravity, Love, and Authority, and all this without Hypocrisie, or Partiality; praying for the Sinner, that his Soul may be saved in the Day of the Lord. And under this second degree, of Withdrawing, or Excommunication, to account him as a Heathen, or Publican,","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"39.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/39.1","segments":[{"text":"in the Name of Christ; It being of Divine Authority;","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]},{"text":"And to such a Meeting, or Assembly, Appeals ought to be made, in case any Injustice be done, or Heresie, and Schism countenanced, in any particular Congregation of Christ; and the Decisive Voice in such General Assemblies is the Major part, and such General Assemblies have lawful power to Hear, and Determine, as also to Excommunicate.","proofs":["Matthew 18:18–20"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"40.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/40.1","segments":[{"text":"nor is this Worshipping of God now under the Gospel, tied to any place, or made more acceptable by one place than another.","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"44.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/44.1","segments":[{"text":"and so being made Members of the Invisible Church, shall injoy Life everlasting;","proofs":["Matthew 18:2–4"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/92","segments":[{"text":"Preaching of the Gospel and Ecclesiastical Discipline, by which Heaven is opened to the Believers, and","proofs":["Matthew 18:18"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/94","segments":[{"text":"themselves Aliens from Christ, after they have been some time admonished, will not depart from their Error, Heresies, or Wickedness, are made known unto the Church; and if neither then they obey the Churches Admonition, are by the same Church kept from the Sacrament, and shut out by Authority received from Christ, from the Congregation","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"123","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/123","segments":[{"text":"kill my Neighbour, either by my self, or by another, but cast away","proofs":["Matthew 18:35"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680-modernized","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680-modernized/questions/92","segments":[{"text":"Preaching of the Gospel and Ecclesiastical Discipline, by which Heaven is opened to the Believers, and","proofs":["Matthew 18:18"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680-modernized","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680-modernized/questions/94","segments":[{"text":"themselves Aliens from Christ, after they have been some time admonished, will not depart from their Error, Heresies, or Wickedness, are made known unto the Church; and if neither then they obey the Churches Admonition, are by the same Church kept from the Sacrament, and shut out by Authority received from Christ, from the Congregation","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680-modernized","id":"123","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680-modernized/questions/123","segments":[{"text":"kill my Neighbor, either by my self, or by another, but cast away","proofs":["Matthew 18:35"]}]},{"document":"bc1695","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695/questions/112","segments":[{"text":"which we are the rather encouraged to ask because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.","proofs":["Matthew 18:35"]}]},{"document":"bc1695-modernized","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695-modernized/questions/112","segments":[{"text":"which we are the rather encouraged to ask because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.","proofs":["Matthew 18:35"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/82","segments":[{"text":"therefore it is the duty of the Christian church, according to the appointment of Christ and his apostles, to exclude such persons, by the keys of the kingdom of heaven, till they show amendment of life.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–18"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/83","segments":[{"text":"and Christian discipline, or excommunication out of the Christian church: by these two, the kingdom of heaven is opened to believers, and shut against unbelievers.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–18"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"85","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/85","segments":[{"text":"Thus: when according to the command of Christ,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15"]},{"text":"and will not, after having been often brotherly admonished, renounce their errors and wicked course of life, are complained of to the church,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–18"]},{"text":"and if they despise their admonition, are by them forbid the use of the sacraments; whereby they are excluded from the Christian church, and by God himself from the kingdom of Christ;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"45","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/45","segments":[{"text":"and censures, by which he visibly governs them;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–18"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"108","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/108","segments":[{"text":"church government and discipline;","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"151","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/151","segments":[{"text":"against any of the saints,","proofs":["Matthew 18:6"]},{"text":"scandalize others,","proofs":["Matthew 18:7"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"192","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/192","segments":[{"text":"as the angels do in heaven.","proofs":["Matthew 18:10"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"194","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/194","segments":[{"text":"acknowledging, that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual sin, and thereby become debtors to the justice of God; and that neither we, nor any other creature, can make the least satisfaction for that debt:","proofs":["Matthew 18:24–25"]},{"text":"which we are the rather emboldened to ask, and encouraged to expect, when we have this testimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offenses.","proofs":["18:35"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"45","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/45","segments":[{"text":"and censures, by which he visibly governs them;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–18"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"108","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/108","segments":[{"text":"church government and discipline;","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"151","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/151","segments":[{"text":"against any of the saints,","proofs":["Matthew 18:6"]},{"text":"scandalize others,","proofs":["Matthew 18:7"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"192","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/192","segments":[{"text":"as the angels do in heaven.","proofs":["Matthew 18:10"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"194","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/194","segments":[{"text":"acknowledging, that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual sin, and thereby become debtors to the justice of God; 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Positively, by the blessing of Christ,","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"And to discharge our Duties privately and faithfully in order to their recovery,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Not as to the quantity and perfection of forgiveness, but as to the sincerity and quality thereof,","proofs":["Matthew 18"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"That if we live in hatred when we pray the Lords Prayer, we pray for our own damnation,","proofs":["Matthew 18:22"]},{"text":"Iesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven.","proofs":["Matthew 18:35"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Omnipresence, Where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the midst of them.","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"50","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/50","segments":[{"text":"12. Exercise of Church Discipline, If thy Brother trespass against thee, go and tell him of his fault between him and thee alone; if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more: and if he neglect to hear them tell it unto the Church: But if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as an Heathen man and Publican.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"4. Rigorous requiring what is owed to us without compassion or forbearance. But the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants, which ought him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.","proofs":["Matthew 18:28–30"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"4. By reproving them before others only when there is need, and that with a respect unto their condition, and remembrance of what is praise worthy in them. If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, &c.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"91","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/91","segments":[{"text":"The Sacraments Positively are effectual means of Salvation. 1. By the Blessing and presence of Christ which doth accompany the Sacraments and other Ordinances of his own Institution, When two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whosoever shall receive one such little Child in my Name, receiveth me,","proofs":["Matthew 18:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"103","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/103","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they always behold the Face of our Father,","proofs":["Matthew 18:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"105","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/105","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ten Thousand Talents,","proofs":["Matthew 18:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"105","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/105","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou should’st have had Compassion on thy Fellow-servant, as I had Pity on thee,","proofs":["Matthew 18:33"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I,","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"For in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established,","proofs":["Matthew 18:16"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, for it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, than to be cast into everlasting fire,","proofs":["Matthew 18:8"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Tell him between him and thee alone,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"110","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/110","segments":[{"text":"They always behold the face of our Father,","proofs":["Matthew 18:10"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/112","segments":[{"text":"It is ten thousand talents,","proofs":["Matthew 18:24"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/112","segments":[{"text":"Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all,","proofs":["Matthew 18:29"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/112","segments":[{"text":"Thou shouldst have had compassion, even as I had pity on thee,","proofs":["Matthew 18:23"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/112","segments":[{"text":"’We must from the heart forgive every one his brother’s trespasses,","proofs":["Matthew 18:35"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/112","segments":[{"text":"Not only till seven times, but till seventy times seven,","proofs":["Matthew 18:22"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"(8) Because, all the Elect, (among which are infants;)","proofs":["Matthew 18:6"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"(2) Because, for a Heathen, and Publican (that is one casten out from the communion of the Church) he only is to be esteemed, who neglecteth to hear the Church;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, the keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, are for this end delivered to the Ministers of the Church, that with Censures, they may pursue Scandalous, and offending Persons, who will not obey admonition;","proofs":["Matthew 18:15, 17–18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"The promise of the power of the keyes, which promise was not limited to the Apostles, as Apostles, but was given to the Apostles, as Ministers of the Gospel, as is evident from","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, Christ hath given no such power to Magistrates: as evidently appears, from all those places of Scripture, where mention is made of the keyes. There is not in them, one syllabe, of the Civil Magistrate;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(10) Because, the Lord commands, that we forsake not the assembling of our selves together: and hath promised to bless after a special manner, any that are gathered together in his name, any where, but our assembling for hearing the word of God, is done in the name of Christ;","proofs":["Matthew 18:20"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, the Protestant Religion, as it is contained in the Harmony of Confessions, especially in the Confession of Faith, recorded in the first Parliament of King James the sixth, laitly ratified, and confirmed, doth not acknowledge any Supream Head, or Governor in the Church, neither Angel, Man, Pope, Prince, nor Potentate, save the Lord Christ, from whom alone, all subordinate power and authority is derived, to the officers, of his own Church. (2) Because, if the Supream Magistrate be a church officer he must derive his power from Christ, and must be a Spiritual, and Ecclesiastick head and Governour, and not a civil only. And if such then Christ hath devolved his own place and office upon him, which is without Scripture proof. (3) Because, if the Supream Magistrate be head of the church, he must have a right to this Title, either by humane Law, or by a divine warrant. Laws of a Nation, cannot make him head of the church, because such laws cannot make him an Ecclesiastick, and Spiritual officer. There is no divine warrant, or commission from Christ, as is clear from","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, Infants that are predestinated unto life, though they die in their mothers belly, yet they cannot perish;","proofs":["Matthew 18:14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"(8) Because, ignorant, prophane, and godless persons, ought to be esteemed as Heathens, and Publicans;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(4) The end of the Church Government is spiritual namely the gaining of mens souls to Christ. But nothing that’s meerly of humane authority, can reach this end;","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]},{"text":"Publick reading of the Word, Preching, and Expounding the same;","proofs":["Matthew 18:19–20"]},{"text":"Fourthly, Admonition and publick Rebuking of those who have offended;","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]},{"text":"Fifthly, The excommunicating of those who are contumacious, and ungodly, and who are convicted of manifest crimes, and scandals;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, Christ hath committed the keyes of the kingdom of Heaven to the Officers of his Church which are Governours distinct from the civil Magistrate;","proofs":["18:19"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, the power of the keyes, is given to the Ministers of the church, wherewith not only by the preaching of the Word, but also by church censures, they open and shut the kingdom of heaven; as will appear by comparing these places of Scripture together;","proofs":["18:17"]},{"text":"(2) Because, he that offends publickly, and after Admonition, persists pertinaciously in his sin, should be esteemed as a Publican and Heathen;","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17–20"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Seing therefore, dangers and difficulties for the preventing, and healing of which, the Lord hath appointed and set up, in that church such a government, may be as great, if not greater in his church, under the New Testament than was then: and seeing the Lord has no less consulted the good of his church now, than he did of old; it follows, that there must be councils, no less under the New Testament than under the old, to which, particular churches ought to be subordinate. (6) From the Light of Nature, and right Reason: for the Law of Nature directs to a diversity of courts; namely, where there is any Rule or Government in a city or common-wealth, and orders the inferiour courts to be subordinate to the superiour, the lesser to the greater, and Appeals to be made from them to the greater. And in bodies both Natural and Politick the parts ought to be subject to the whole, for the good of both. Besides there are, and will be very many Ecclesiastick affairs which will concern many Congregations equally and alike, which cannot be determined by any one. (2) Because, the Pastors and Presbyters of particular Congregations will stand in need each one of anothers help, and assistance mutually. (3) Because, cases and difficulties may occur, more intangled, and intricate, than can be settled and composed by the Governours of any one Congregation. (4) Seing particular Congregations which ly nigh one to another, ought to shun divisions, and differences, and to live in peace and unity, it follows manifestly, that there ought to be Synods or Councils, consisting of the Presbyters of many particular congregations, which ought to be subordinate, to these Councils, and Synods. (5) From Christs own precept, and command, Tell the Church;","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"bastingius1591","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/bastingius1591/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"The preaching of the Gospell, and Ecclesiastical discipline, whereby heauen is opened to them that beleeue, and shut against vnbeleeuers.","proofs":["18:18"]}]},{"document":"bastingius1591","id":"85","url":"/api/v1/documents/bastingius1591/entries/85","segments":[{"text":"members of Christ and of the Church.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"bastingius1591","id":"105","url":"/api/v1/documents/bastingius1591/entries/105","segments":[{"text":"cast away all desire of reuenge. Moreouer that I","proofs":["18:35"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"8","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/8","segments":[{"text":"Pardoned of all their sinnes,","proofs":["Matthew 18:23"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"and of the debter.","proofs":["Matthew 18:26"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"the Eies, which doe offend,","proofs":["Matthew 18:9"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Tell the Church saith our Sauiour","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"1. Who are to excommunicate, namely such as haue authoritie in the Church.","proofs":["Matthew 18:17"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"3. The manner of proceeding in Excommunication, namely first by gentle admonition, and that once, or twice giuen,","proofs":["Matthew 18:15"]},{"text":"and to denounce him an Heathen, and a Publican,","proofs":["Matthew 18:16"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Preaching of the Gospell, and Ecclesiasticall Discipline: by which heauen is opened to the beleeuers, and is shutte against the vnbeleeuers.","proofs":["18:18"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"receiued as members of Christ and his Church.","proofs":["Matthew 18:15–17"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"157","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/157","segments":[{"text":"cast away al desire of reuenge. Furthermore, that I hurt not my selfe, or cast my selfe wittinglie into anie daunger. Wherefore also, that murthers might not be committed,","proofs":["18:35"]}]}]}