1 Corinthians 5

1. A privative part, Mortification, which lies in the purging out of sin. Sin is compared to leaven, which sours, and to leprosy, which defiles: Sanctification does purge out the old leaven (1 Corinthians 5:7). Though it takes not away the life, yet the love of sin.

This has made many they could not reach heaven, because of their over-reaching. 13. If you would not miss of the Kingdom of Heaven, take heed of evil company; there is a necessary commerce with men in buying and selling, else, as the Apostle says, we must go out of the world (1…

Thus Abraham was instructed in the nature of the Covenant of Grace by circumcision (Genesis 17:10), which is often explained in the Old Testament, by applying it in particular to the grace of conversion, called the circumcision of the heart (Deuteronomy 10:16; chapter 30:6; Jere…

And as the Apostles in their writings, do ascribe to all the Churches, and the members of them a participation in this effectual vocation, affirming that they are saints called, sanctified, justified and accepted with God in Christ (Romans 1:5, 6; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthian…

Hereunto also diligence and watchfulness are to be added, without which ability and power will never obtain their proper end in a due manner (Romans 12:6, 7, 8). Fourthly, The end of this discipline is continuance, increase, and preservation of the Church, according to the rule…

Quest. 42. To whom is the power and administration of this Discipline committed by Jesus Christ? Answ. As to the authority to be exerted in it in the things wherein the whole Church is concerned, to the Elders; as to trial, judgment and consent in, and to its exercise to the who…

(4) In exhorting, comforting, and restoring to the enjoyment and exercise of Church privileges such as are recovered from the error of their ways; all according to the laws, rules, and directions of the Gospel. (1) (Matthew 18:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Titus…

Q. If the matter of particular churches for the quality of it ought to be true believers in Christ, what ought to be the quantity thereof? Q. No more in number in the days of the new Testament, but only so many as may ordinarily meet together in one congregation (Acts 2:46; 5:12…

Q. What persons are subject to Church censures? A. All and only they that are members of the Church (Matthew 18:15; 1 Corinthians 5:12; Psalms 149:4). Q. In what way, and by what steps and degrees must an offending brother be dealt withal?

God would have a public satisfaction given. So when the incestuous person had committed that sin (1 Corinthians 5:1, 9), for which at that time he was not humbled — for afterward in 2 Corinthians 2:7, when he was humbled indeed, Paul bids them comfort him — yet until his humilia…

Even as on the contrary, the special work of baptism (which admits into the church), to such as were adult believers already, was by joy in the Holy Ghost to seal up their adoption and regeneration to them, as to the eunuch (Acts 8:39). This we may see in the excommunication of…

seeing properly the Passover is nothing else, but the act of the Angel passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he smote the firstborn in every house of the Egyptians. Answer. The phrase is improper: yet it must not seem strange, because it is usual in Scripture, treating…

Their last objection is, If a sinner be righteous by Christ's righteousness, then Christ is a sinner by his sins: for there is the same reason of both. But Christ is no sinner, but the holy of holiest: and Saint Paul says, He knew no sin, 1 Corinthians 5. And himself for himself…

1. The introduction of the assertion is by the particles [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], But now; [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], now, is a note of time, of the present time. But there are instances where these adverbial particles thus conjoined, do not seem to denote any time or seas…

These assemblies were of two sorts. (1.) Stated on the Lord's Day, or first day of the week (1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 20:7). (2.) Occasional, as the duties or occasions of the church did require (1 Corinthians 5:4). The end of these assemblies were twofold.

To the second argument, to prove children when adult subject to church-discipline; namely, Because they are within the church, or members thereof, and therefore subject to church-judicature (1 Corinthians 5:12). The answer that is given, is, that the argument is to be denied, an…

The act of covenanting on our part, whereby we are brought into the Church, is but an efficient (yes, but an instrumental efficient: the book calls it a Precrean: cause, pag. 37. that is still but an efficient: yet consider it in contradistinction to Divine Institution, it can b…

Before God sends his judgments on Jerusalem, an angel is sent to mark them in the foreheads that mourn for the abominations of the people (Ezekiel 9:4). And this privilege none can have but he whose heart is sprinkled with the blood of Christ (Exodus 12:23 with 1 Corinthians 5:7…

That God has proper places where the creatures shall perform their duty and enjoy their happiness, as the Angels had Heaven which was [in non-Latin alphabet], their proper place, so Adam had Paradise, and the Saints the Church. 'Tis misery enough to be thrown out of that place w…

And 1 Corinthians 10:4: The rock was Christ. 1 Corinthians 5:7: The Passover was Christ. The like phrase is to be found in the institution of this sacrament concerning the cup, which the Papists themselves confess to be figurative — when it is said in Luke 22: This cup is the ne…

Now we command you brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly (2 Thessalonians 3:6). I have written to you, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, o…

But let us hear what he has said concerning some Scriptures (for he names but two of them) upon which the acts of spiritual or ecclesiastical government have been grounded. That place, 1 Corinthians 5, takes not hold (says he) on my conscience for excommunication, and I admire t…

If all Churches, officers, and members, have power in the Lord over all their members, then joining in Covenant is necessary to make a man a member of a Church, but the former is true, therefore the latter is true also. The assumption in this argument, that all Churches have pow…

It is answered that this evill proceedeth from another, namely that there is too much sloth and oversight in the admission of such as are to be members of a Congregation, and that they would be fit enough to doe their duty, if they were all Saints, they meane appearantly, and in…

5. Papists by their implicit faith believe whatever the Church believes, because they think the Church cannot err, but our Churches conceive not only their particular Elderships, but ecumenical councils to be subject to error. Come we now to his third general reason: whereby he…

The use is, after all temptations to receive comfort and relief by them (Psalm 51:9). Of one correction, for the rest, as of excommunication: the preparation is by the authority and majesty of Christ, the action a fearful sentence with majesty, justly pronounced, the use for the…

Christ's yoke is easy, he has not cords and bands to cut the necks of those that follow him. Answer. 1. Indeed but this rod is a rod of love, only used that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus (1 Corinthians 5:5), for the gaining of the soul (Matthew 18:15), for…

And it is the same that you read (Isaiah 1:16-18), to show you that if men do begin to learn to be better, if they cease to do evil, and learn to do well, if they acknowledge their sins in the sight of God, God will so sprinkle the blood of Christ upon them, as that their great…

Fourthly, neither must I behold my brother's failings with a wanton eye, that is, when a man is not humbled for his brother's faults, but partly puffed up with it, and prides himself with beholding another man's failings, and thinks every man's fall is a refreshing to himself; h…

If the faults of the Church be in manners, and these faults appear both in the lives of ministers and people, so long as true religion is taught, it is a church, and so to be esteemed; and the ministers must be heard (Matthew 23:1). Yet may we separate from the private company o…

The example of one incestuous man was sufficient to corrupt all Corinth. Therefore Paul says, Purge out the old leaven (1 Corinthians 5:6). The law of God is, that blasphemers, murderers, adulterers, etc. shall be put to death: the reason is, that evil may be taken away out of I…

(Matthew 23:8) One is your Doctor, to wit, Christ, and all you are brethren. (1 Corinthians 5:11) If any that is called a brother be a fornicator, with such a one eat not. To these we may add a fifth sense: for all those that are confederate, or otherwise joined together, by the…

By this similitude then he threatens, that nothing shall remain in good condition to the Assyrians, who are now destined to destruction, because they shall perish, both soul and flesh: not that men's souls are mortal, but because God will openly show his vengeance upon them. Sur…

Here we perceive also what Paul tells us, that some are delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, (1 Corinthians 5:5.) And the length of time points out to us that, though the Lord does not immediately relieve…

and when Paul says, that a little leaven leavens the whole lump, (1 Corinthians 5:6.) But here the term must be understood simply as applying to the present subject.

There are restless men, on the other hand, who have endeavored in various ways to corrupt sound doctrine, and, in guarding also against such impostures, believers must maintain a strict watch, that they may keep a perpetual Passover With the unleavened bread of sincerity and tru…

It is asked, what does he mean by the term Church? For Paul orders (1 Corinthians 5:5) that the incestuous Corinthian shall be excommunicated, not by a certain chosen number, but by the whole assembly of the godly; and therefore it might appear to be probable that the power of j…

Such is the import of what Paul says, that Christ our passover is sacrificed for us, (1 Corinthians 5:7.) 19. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them.

And so also is it called a New Creature. He that is in Christ is a new Creature, 1 Cor. 5. 17. It is something, that by an almighty creating Act of the Power of God by his Spirit, that has the Nature of a living Creature, is produced in the Souls of all that are in Christ Jesus.

Then he was offered up to God as a lamb without blemish, and without spot. Then especially did he appear to be the antitype of the lamb of the Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7). And yet in that act, he did in an especial manner appear as the Lion of the tribe of Judah; yes, in this a…

Separation generally hears ill in the world; and yet there is a separation suitable to the mind of God: he that will not separate from the world, and false worship, is a separate from Christ. Now the separation here commanded from any persons, is not in respect of natural affect…

The Greeks retain the name, but corrupt it into [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], and are followed by the Latines, who call it Pascha. Hence after the Apostle had applied this Feast and Sacrifice to the Lord Christ (1 Corinthians 5:7), and Christians began to celebrate the commemoratio…

But it is from the sanctification of it by the death of Christ. Hereby that which was God's ordinance for the infliction of judgment, becomes an effectual means for the communication of mercy (1 Corinthians 5:22; chap. 15:54). It is by virtue of the death of Christ alone, that t…

And they have amongst them the broad seal of Heaven; To Gods people that are together in a Church-fellowship, the seals are committed; now this is a mighty priviledge. And besides, they have the power of Christ with them, 1 Cor. 5:4 the power of Christ is committed to them. And…

The Lord would have his people shun the society of such, as a pest. Not to eat with them, 1 Corinthians 5:11. Indeed, the Scripture brands them with Atheism; they are such as have lost the sense and expectation of the Day of Judgment; mind not another world, nor do they look for…

What are my Lusts, (says Fuller's Medone) but so many Toads spitting of Venome, tations, p 11. and spawning of Poison; croaking in my Judgment, creeping in my Will, and crawling into my Affecttions? The Apostle in 1 Corinthians 5:1. tells us of a sin, Not to be named; so monstro…

3. One beyond those degrees of consanguinity and affinity which are forbidden by the law of God: these degrees are expressed by Moses (Leviticus 18:6-7, etc.) and explained in a table of the degrees of consanguinity and affinity within which none may marry, appointed to be hung…

Some begin to grow negligent, careless, worldly, wanton; they break the ice toward pleasing the flesh; at first others blame and judge them, but before long their love also waxes cold and they conform to the same mold. A little leaven leavens the whole lump — Paul repeats this t…

It is the greatest judgment which can be laid upon any creature, that he may have his own will. A man may be given up to Satan, yet recover (1 Corinthians 5:5): Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesu…

Were not separations made, if not from that church, yet in that church as well as divisions? Let the Scripture determine (1 Corinthians 1:11; 1 Corinthians 5:3). I am a disciple of Paul said one, and I a disciple of Apollo said another: in our language; I am a member of such a m…