The nullity of church-censures: or A dispute written by that illustrious philosopher, expert physician, and pious divine Dr Thomas Erastus, publick professor in the University of Heidelbertge, and Basil. Wherein is proved by the holy Scriptures, and sound reason; that excommunication, and church-senates or members, exercising the same, are not of divine institution; but a meere humane invention.

Title

The nullity of church-censures: or A dispute written by that illustrious philosopher, expert physician, and pious divine Dr Thomas Erastus, publick professor in the University of Heidelbertge, and Basil. Wherein is proved by the holy Scriptures, and sound reason; that excommunication, and church-senates or members, exercising the same, are not of divine institution; but a meere humane invention.

Author

Erastus, Thomas, 1542-1583.

Publication

London :: Printed for G.L. and are to be sold at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard, neare the west end.,

1659.

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Subject terms

Excommunication -- Early works to 1800.

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"The nullity of church-censures: or A dispute written by that illustrious philosopher, expert physician, and pious divine Dr Thomas Erastus, publick professor in the University of Heidelbertge, and Basil. Wherein is proved by the holy Scriptures, and sound reason; that excommunication, and church-senates or members, exercising the same, are not of divine institution; but a meere humane invention." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A84062.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• For the most excellent Medico Chyrurgion John Troutbeck of Hope, late Chyrurgion-Generall in the Northern Army, his much ho∣noured Master and Patron.
• TO THE READER.
• To the Reader that is pious, and desirous of Truth.
• The Life of that Pious and Learned Philosopher, Physician, and Divine, THOMAS ERASTUS.
• AN EXPLICATION Of that most weighty QUESTION, Whither Excommunication; (as it debarreth Men that know and imbrace Religion, from the use of the Sacraments, for their Delinquencies,) Be of Divine Institution OR A Humane Invention?
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• Courteu Reader The ooks following, are Printed, for, or, Sold by Simon Miller, at the Starre in St. Paul Church-yard.
  • Sall Folio.
  • In Quarto large.
  • Quarto Small.
  • Large Octavo.
  • Small Octavo.
  • Vigerius Preceptes of Idiotismes. Grotij Poemata.
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