I speake of ye publike discipline of ye church, not of priuate admonition & reprehen∣sion, which may be called by ye name of Discipline, but neither are they properly, nor vsually so called, except you wil also say ye publike preaching & reading of ye scriptures is discipline: these be things annexed to discipline, but vnproperly termed by ye name* 1.1 of discipline. Your partition of discipline into those three parts, in my poore iudgemēt, is very vnskilful: for discipline cōsisteth in punishing & correcting of vice: neither yet is the deciding of controuersies in matters doubtfull, properly called discipline, for dis∣cipline is exercised in punishing & correcting ye persons, not decioing ye causes. Wher∣fore I thinke you haue forgottē your self, & in steade of ye part, haue deuided ye whole, that is, you haue made a diuision of gouernment, wheras you tooke vpon you to deuide discipline, which is but a part of ecclesiasticall pollicie or gouernment.
Reade the generall confession, of ye Christian churches in Heluetia, & tell me what it differeth from any thing ye I haue said. Call to your remēbrance that which your selfe* 1.2 haue spoken, pag. 14. where you call other censures of the church, but forerunners to excommu∣nication, but this is a contention only about words, & therfore inough is said of it.