Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
In case of undue exclusion from Church Ordinances, of such as Christ would not have excluded. Our Lord Jesus hath foretold, that the power of the keys should fall (sometimes) into such hands, as would so diametrically pervert the use of them, as that oft-times none should be excluded, but whom Christ would have admitted; nor admitted, but such as Christ would have shut out.
They shall put You out of their Synagogues, i. e. Excommunicate you: You, my Disciples; you, my Friends. Hard measure! I, but here is comfort; the time is coming, wherein all the Elect shall be Congregated into one universal Assembly, never to suffer exclusion or ejectment any more to all Eternity. And then their unrighteous Excommunicators shall be righteously Excommunicated. ...
For more, see Thomas Case on Christ’s excommunication of unrighteous excommunicators.
They shall put You out of their Synagogues, i. e. Excommunicate you: You, my Disciples; you, my Friends. Hard measure! I, but here is comfort; the time is coming, wherein all the Elect shall be Congregated into one universal Assembly, never to suffer exclusion or ejectment any more to all Eternity. And then their unrighteous Excommunicators shall be righteously Excommunicated. ...
For more, see Thomas Case on Christ’s excommunication of unrighteous excommunicators.
