A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.

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Title: A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.
Author: Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M. for John Bellamy at the three Golden Lions in Cornhill, near the Royall Exchange,; M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]
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The Presbytery are Elders to the Classicall Church 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not in things proper to each Congregation, but in things common to all, or in that which is the proper object of Government; to wit, those things which rather concern the consociation of the thirty Churches, then the thirty combined Churches in particular, lib. 2. pag. 326.

The practice of the Classis opposeth this expression. For take a private offence, admonish then the offending party. 2. Upon not hearing, take one or two: 3. The offending party persisting, let him bring it to the Church.

This is proper to the Congregation: Yet by Classical principles, the particular Congregation must not admonish: For that Church, that must speak to the Offender, in case he doe not hear, that Church may cast him out. So the words, Mat. 18.17. If he will not hear the Church, let him be as an Heathen. But the Classis al∣lows not this.

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Suppose the party be admonished by the particular Congrega∣tion for this his private fault, thus persisted in, and yet shall con∣tinue to be obstinate: This obstinacy, is, Res propria, to this Church, Why may she not now cast him out without a Classis? For this pertinacy did innotescere only to the Church.

If it be said, When he is cast out, the neighbouring Churches must shun and avoid him, upon knowledge given.

I answer, so must the Churches of another Classis, of another Province; and therefore there is no more need the one should have a hand in the censure then the other.