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A91314	A vindication of foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspention from the sacrament of the Lords Supper, from some misprisions and unjust exceptions lately taken against them; both in the pulpit, by a reverend brother of Scotland, in a sermon at Margarets Church in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at a publike fast there held for Scotland, on the 5th of September last: and in the presse, by three new-printed pamphlets, by way of answer to, and censure of them. Wherein some scripture texts, (commonly reproduced for excommunication, and bare suspention from the Lords Supper onely,) are cleared from false glosses, inferences, conclusions wrested from them; ... / By William Prynne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4124; Thomason E265_5; ESTC R212424	79,558	71

Jewes Church though they were execrable to the Jewes by reason of the●r Tax-gathering and Oppressions yet we never read in Scripture that they w●re excommunicated or cast out of their Sinagogues but contrarily that they went up into the Temple to pray as well as the Pharises and were more acceptable to Christ himselfe who never excommunicated but received and conversed with them then the proud Pharises were Luke 18. 11. to 15. ch. 3. 12. chap. 7. 29. chap. 5. 27. 28 29. chap. 15. 1 2. chap. 19. 2 c. Mark 9. 11 12. Matth. 10. 3. Marke 2. 15 16. Therefore these expressions can no wayes warrant or imply any excommnnication or suspension from the Sacrament Fifthly the words runne onely let him be TO THEE as a heathe● man and a Publican not to the whole Church and all others professing Religion which might have intimated something in behalfe of the Opposites and therefore ●o ground excommunication from the Church or suspension from the Sacrament on this Text which the Papists and others have very much abused is to extract water out of a flint and palpably to wrest the Scripture from its genuine sense Object And whereas some object that the n●xt ensuing words verse 18. Verily I say unto you what soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven c. doe necessarily infer the preceding words to relate to Ecclesiasticall censures and the power of the Keyes as they phrase it Answ. I answer first that these words have no coherence with or dependence on the former but are a distinct sentence of themselves because spoken onely to and of Christs Disciples as is evident by the Parall●l Text of John 20. 23. not of the Jewish Church much lesse of their Councell or Sanhedrim meant onely by the Church in the former verse as is already cleared Secondly the this binding and loosing is not meant of excommunication or suspension from the Sacrament as some would fancy it but onely of binding and loosing mens finnes by preaching the Gospell and denouncing pardon or remission of sinnes and salvation to penitent and beleeving sinners but judgement and damnation to obstinate impenitent sinners as is evident by comparing it with Matth. 16. 19. Marke 16. 16. John 3. 16 17 18 36. chap. 12. 48. Luke 13. 3. 5. Rom. 2. 16. Acts 2. 38. chap. 3. 19. Therefore some clearer Text then this must be produced to found excommunication or suspension from the Sacrament and Ecclesiasticall Discipline upon by those who contend for it Jure divin● Thirdly whether 1 Cor. 5. 5. To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus and 1 Tim. 1. 20. whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheame be properly meant of excommunication or suspension from the Sacrament Some of our Opposites peremptorily affirme it but produce no shadow of proofe for it others speak dubiously of these Texts as needing a large debate and therefore prudently wave them with a rhetoricall preterition as the late Reverend Preacher did I for my part humbly conceive that to deliver to Satan is a thing somewhat different from excommunication and suspension from the Lords Table My reasons are these First if to deliver a man to Satan be the self-same thing with excommunication or suspension from the Sacrament as some affirme then every excommunicated or suspended person should during his excommunication or suspension either in a literall or sprituall sense at least be in their judgement in the actual power of Satan though a true child of God whom e Christ himself hath rescued out of the jawes and pawes of Satan since such a one may be actually excommunicated suspended from the Lords Table for a season not onely injuriously but upon just grounds and yet not inthe Devils actuall power or possession but in Christs John 10. 28 29. Secondly if to deliver unto satan were the same with excommunication then it would have some proportion and coincidency with other Scripture phrases produced for proofe of excommunication as put away from among you that wicked person and the like forecited with which it hath no 〈◊〉 Thirdly our Opposites generally grant f that Excommunication belongs onely to the Presbytery or whole Congregation not to any one particular person be he Bishop Minister or other whereas Paul himselfe deliv●●ed Hymeneus and Phyletus unto Satan as the words whom I have delivered c. import without the concurrence of any other Fourthly many members of the visible Church are spiritually under the g ●ower of satan and taken captives of him at his will though still within the Church and not actually excommunicated therefore to deliver men over thus to satan and no more cannot be properly tearmed excommunication Fifthly nor can it be meant meerly of suspending people from the Sacrament for then children and others debarred from the Sacrament by reason of their nonage or any other naturall dis-abilities should be as much delivered over to Satan as any scandalous persons What this delivering of men over to satan is hath been much controverted among Divines Many who take it to be meant of excommunication and an act of discipline established then in the Church for all future ages interpret it to be not onely a casting of a man out of the Church h wherein Christ reigns into the world of ungodly men among whom satan rules but likewise to give a man over to be guided in his spirit by the word spirit of satan as the Church and those within it are led guided by the word and spirit of God explaining it by Ephes. 2. 2 3. 2 Tim. 2. 26. John 14. 30. John 8. 44 1 John 3. 8. But this exposition seems to me both false and improper First because these scandalous sinners even whiles they were in the Church were i led and acted by the spiret of satan in committing those scandalous sinnes for which they were excommunicated and therefore their excommunication cannot thus deliver them over unto satan who tooke them captive at his will but leaves them in his hands in the same condition as before Secondly such a delivery unto satan as this to be guided acted in their spirits by him and no more tends nothing at all to the destruction of the flesh but rather to the pampering of it much lesse to the reforming of the life or the saving of the spirit in the day of the Lord Jesus but rather to aggravate and encrease mens sinnes Thirdly it 's confessed that a godly man may for some notorious sinnes or scandals be actually excommunicated as well as other wicked persons now such a one God never k gives over to be led and ruled by the unclean spirit of satan but he always leads them by his own holy spirit which ever dwels and rules within their soules and is never dis-possessed by the Devill Fourthly all accord that the end