bread for ſeven days. As the Paſſer prefigured Chriſt, who is | [os Paſchal Lamb,whoſe fleſh we eat, —_ whoſ: blood _ hrinkby T 34 believing, and Sacramentally in the Lord's Supper ; fo the Jewiſh ' ſubſequent Feaſt of Unleavened bread prefigured all the days of a 3th Chriſtians Life, which are to be ſpeat, £ not with the old 1:20; | i \ my the leawen of malice and wicksaneſs, but with the unleavened breas If | of ſincerity and truth : which may be either underſtood of thoſe i | eviland good habirs which they fignifie, and let us to know the ih 9 duty of every particular Chriſtian, to take heed wickedneſs, or elſe (which ſeemeth moſt proper to this place) the f abſtra& is put for the concrete, malice and wickednsſ; for wicked and malicious men, and ſincerity and truth for perſons that are true and ) lincere. So that we are from hence taughr, borh the dury of eve- 4 ry particular Chriſtian, conſidering that Chriſt hath died as a Sa- $|crifice for his lin, to live up to the rule which he hath given us ; abhorring malice and all wickedneſs, and afting truth and fince- F rity, and alſo the duty of every true Church of Chriſt, to keep _f cheir Communion pure from the ſociety of wicked and malicious "RY men, and made up of men of truth and ſincerity. The latter ſce- WP 4 meth to be principally intended. | 9 I wrote unto you in an epiltle *, not to company * 2 Cor.s, with fornicators «. . # It ſhould ſeem that Pax! had wrote ſo in ſome former Epiſtle ©? b.5.11. which he had directed tothis Church, which is loſt ; for we muſt ? ; think that Pau! wrote more Epiſtles to the ſeveral Churches, than 3: 7+: thoſe lefr us upon Record in hoÞpWric (yer fo, as not to under-. See ver. 2. : mine the perfeC&tion of the Holy Scriptures, )By Fornicators are meant 7* f any ſorts of unclean perſons known rothem; and the keeping com- : pany with them, whichthe Apoſtle had prohibited to the Corinthians, was not a meer fellowſhip with them in their works of darkneſs, but any intimacy of communion with any ſuch perſons. 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world w, or with the covetous, or extortioners, of
with idolators x: for then muſt ye needs go our of the world y. |
w I did not intend that admonition as to ſach perſons as were no Chriſtians, no members of the Church. (So this rerm world is uſed, Joh. 15.19. & 17.14. and fo it is to be interpreted here) x he extendeth this admonition to other ſcandalous ſinners, ſuch as Lp coverous perſons, by which he underſtandeth ſuch as by any open
and ſcandalous atts diſcover their too great love of money, whe. Wei. ther by oppreſſion,or by cheating and defrauding,o&c.or Exrortioners, ſuch as exa&t more than their due;or with. /dolaters by which he un«
derſtanderh ſuch as worſhipped Jmeges, and under theſe ſew ſpecies
of ſcandalous ſinners here mentioned, the Apoſtle underſtands al]
others alike ſcandalous. » For (faith he) you could have no com.
merce not trading with men in the world, if you might keep L; no company with ſuch as theſe. Which is true at this day, | when the world is much more Chriſtianized, than it was at that
time.
1: But now I have written unto you, not to kee
company *. it any man that is called a brother be a for- * Mar. :8. nicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a 17. drunkard, or an extortioner, with fuch a one no not Rom 16: oO cat SL, of PRE z Of late there have been ſome diſputes what eating is here *9® RY "HF intended, whether at the Lord's Table, or at our common Tables. In. ' why” timacy of communion,is that which undoubtedly is here ſignified
by Eating ; and the Apoſtles meaning is, that the Member of this
Church ſhould forbear any unneceſlary fellowſhip and communion
with any perſonthat went under the name of Chriftians, and yer
indulged themſelves in any notorious and ſcandalous courſes of | life ; of which he reckoneth up ſeveral forts. 1. Unclean perſons A 5k noted for any kind of uncleanneſs. 2 Covetows perſons, by which he
underſtands all ſuch as our of their too great love of money, either
ſcandalonſly ſought to add to their heap, or to detain what was F: others juſt due. 3. dolaters, by which heunderſtands ſuch as our | $f of fear, or to gain favour with the Heathen amongſt whom they | lived, would frequent and perform Divine Worſhip in the Idols
Temple. 4 Railers, ſuch as uſed their tongues intemperately and
ſcandalouſly to the prejudice of others reputation: 5. Drunkaras,
under which notion he comprehends all ſuch as drank hot liquors F intemperately, whether they had ſuch an effe& upon chem, as to I. deprive them of the uſe of their reaſon orno. ' 6. Extortioners, wiz. | ſuch as being in any place exatted more than was their due of | thoſe that were under their power. But yet by this interpretation |
che argument is not loſt againſt Eating with ſuch at the Table of | 4 the Lord, which is no mere neceſſary Communion with them, $510 than civil Eating i ; for neither hath God ſpread that Table for | bi any ſuch, neither ought any Church to endure any ſuch perſons in
its Communion : nor are any Chriſtians bound for ever to abide
in the Communion of that Church, which ſhall wilfully negle& the
purging out of ſuch old leaven. ' Admitring this precept prohibi- irik tive of a civil intimacy with ſcandalous perſons,though they be cal-
led Brethren, it holds 4 for:iori, as a ſtrongerargument againſt Re.
ligious Communion with ſuch in Ordinances, to whichapparently
they have no proximate right.
12 For what have 1 todo tojudge * them alſs that are* ynzt. 4.
without ? 2 donot ye judge thoſe that are within? 6 17. |
4 My Jurifdition extendeth not to Heathens,God hath berruſted Col. 4. 4. - 134
to me not the Government of the World, but rhe Government of 1 Thi. his Church. 6 Nor would I have you concern your felves further, 4- 12. _ than in judging your own Members, thoſe that are within the pale 1 T 111. x F of your Church, and who by a voluntary joyning with you bave 7: | given you 2 power over them.
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