Book 1The first Booke. Of the Jewish Church-government.
Chapter 1CHAP. I. That if the Erastians could prove what they alledge concerning the Iewish Church Government, yet…
Chapter 2CHAP. II. That the Iewish Church was formally distinct from the Iewish State or Common-wealth.
Chapter 3CHAP. III. That the Iewes had an Ecclesiasticall Sanhedrin and Government distinct from the Civill.
Chapter 4CHAP. IV. That there was an Ecclesiasticall Excommunication among the Iewes: and what it was.
Chapter 5CHAP. V. Of the cutting off from among the people of God, frequently mentioned in the Law.
Chapter 6CHAP. VI. Of the casting out of the Synagogue.
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. Other Scripturall Arguments to prove an Excommucation in the Iewish Church.
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Of the Iewish Exomologesis, or publike Declaration of Repentance by confession of sinne.
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. Whether in the Iewish Church, there was any Suspension or exclusion of prophane, scandalous,…
Chapter 10CHAP. X. A debate with Master Prynne, concerning the exclusion of prophane scandalous persons from the…
Chapter 11CHAP. XI. A Confutation of the strongest arguments of Erastus, namely, those drawn from the Law of Moses.
Chapter 12CHAP. XII. Fourteen Arguments, to prove that scandalous and presumptuous Offenders against the morall Law…
Chapter 13CHAP. XIII. Master Prynnes Argument from 1 Cor. 10. (which he takes to be unanswerable) discussed and…
AppendixAN APPENDIX To the First Booke: Containing an additionall debate concerning the Jewish Church-Government…
14 objectionsBook 2The second Book OF THE CHRISTIAN Church-Goverment.
Chapter 1CHAP. I. Of the Rise, Growth, Decay, and Reviving of Erastianisme.
Chapter 2CHAP. II. Some Postulata or common Principles to be presupposed.
Chapter 3CHAP. III. What the Erastians yeeld unto Vs, and what We yeeld unto them.
Chapter 4CHAP. IV. Of the agreements and differences between the nature of the Civil and of the Ecclesiastical…
Chapter 5CHAP. V. Of a twofold Kingdom of Iesus Christ: a general Kingdom, as he is the eternal Son of God, the Head…
Chapter 6CHAP. VI. Whether Jesus Christ, as Mediator and head of the Church, hath laced the Christian Magistrate to…
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. Arguments for the Negative of that Question formerly propounded.
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Of the Power and Priviledge of the Magistrate in things and causes Ecclesiastical; what it is…
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. That by the Word of God there ought to be another Government beside Magistracy …r Civil…
Chapter 10CHAP. X. Some Objections m…de against Ecclesiastical Government a…d Discipline answered.
Chapter 11CHAP. XI. The necessity of a distinct Church-Government under Christian as well as under Heathen Magistrates.
AppendixAn Appendix to the second Book, containing a Collection of some Testimonies not cited before; And first a…
1 excerptsBook 3THE THIRD BOOKE. OF Excommunication from the CHURCH. AND, Of Suspension from the LORDS TABLE.
Chapter 1CHAP. I. An opening of the true state of the question, and of Master Prynnes many mistakes and…
Chapter 2CHAP. II. Whether Matth. 18. 15, 16, 17. prove Excommunication.
Chapter 3CHAP. III. A further demonstration that these words, Let him be to thee as an Heathen man and a Publican,…
Chapter 4CHAP. IV. A confutation of Erastus and Bilson their Interpretation of Math. 18. 15, 16, 17. as likewise of…
Chapter 5CHAP. V. That Tell it to the Church hath more in it, then, Tell it unto a greater number.
Chapter 6CHAP. VI. Of the power of binding and loosing Matth. 18. 18.
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. That 1 Cor. 5. proveth Excommunication and (by a necessary consequence even from the Erastian…
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Whether Judas received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. Whether Judas received the Sacrament of the Passeover that night in which our Lord was betrayed.
Chapter 10CHAP. X. That if it could be proved that Judas received the Lords Supper, it maketh nothing against the…
Chapter 11CHAP. XI. Whether it he a full discharge of duty to admonish a scandalous person of the danger of unworthy…
Chapter 12CHAP. XII. Whether the Sacrament of the Lords Supper be a converting or regenerating Ordinance.
Chapter 13CHAP. XIII. Twenty A…guments to prove that the Lords Supper is not a converting Ordinance.
Chapter 14CHAP. XIIII. Mr. Prynne his twelve Arguments brought to prove that the Lords Supper is a converting…
Chapter 15CHAP. XV. Whether the admission of scandalous and notorious sinners to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper,…
Chapter 16CHAP. XVI. An Argument of Erastus (drawn from the Baptism of John) …gainst the excluding of scandalous…
Chapter 17CHAP. XVII. Antiquity for the suspension of all scandalous persons from the Sacrament, even such as were…
Chapter 18CHAP. XVIII. A Discovery of the instability and loosenesse of Mr. Prynn his Principles, even to the…
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