Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...

Quest. 2. Whether excommunication debarres from all society of the Church

In regard that we are exacted to withdraw our selves from such, and not so much as to eare with them, thi•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 on is not to be passed over, It is said then that ex••o••mu∣nication hinders not.

• 1 The practise of those dut••s that are grounded on the Laws of nature; as the duties of Husbands and Wives, Fa∣thers and Children, Masters and Servants, Princes and People.
• 2 Nor the practise of those dutys that are grounded on the law of nations, as traffique and commerce. An Excommuni∣cated person must be to us as an Heathen, and with these we may have trade.
• 3 Nor the practise of such that are grounded upon the law of Common charity. For we are bound to feed the hungry, cloath the naked, though they be, or should be, as Heathens.
• 4 It debars not but in some cases from the hearing of the word. Unlesse they be scoffers (it being the meanes for conver∣ting of very heathens) they are admitted to it and ought to be exorted to it, but in no other ordinance do they enjoy any so∣ciety with the Church, and in no familiar or unnecessary deal∣ing have we any thing to do with them, but are bound to avoyd them, that they may be ashamed and returne to the Church by repentance, from which they were cast out through ob∣stinacy.