...preface to the commiuation service, "there was a godly discipline; that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin, were put to open penance, and punish* C/prian, En. 12. ed in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord ;...

...people. "Brethren, in the primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin, were put to open penance, and punishment in this world, that their souls ®-® mother and the daughter, this sad deficiency may soon...

...no wish to see it carried further than that " Godly discipline" by which, "in the primitive church, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance." But Baxter would have called in the secular arm to punish sinners, and he blames the magistracy of...

...difficult to perceive any connection between the Binderpest and the announcement in that service, that "in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline that such persons who stood convicted of notorious siii were put to open penance and punished in this world, that their...

...commencement. " In the primitive church there was a godly discipline that at the beginning of Lent such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open peu".nce and punishment in this world, that their COMMISSION. COMMITTEE. souls might be saved in the...

...commencement. " In the primitive church there was a gorily discipline that at the beginning of Lent such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open psnsnce and punifchmaiit in this world, that their COMMISSION. souls might be saved in the day of the...

...a godly discipline," (the restoration of which is much to be wished) "that at the beginning of Lent such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance J ." So the thirty-third Article insists that an excommunicated person " ought to be taken of the whole...

...found in the Sacramentary of Gelasius. NOTE. — ' In the primitive Church at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance. The mode of inflicting penance in the twelfth century is thus described by Gratian. On Ash Wednesday,...

..." Brethren, in the "Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance." . . . . "Spare us, therefore, good LORD, spare THY people, whom THOU hast redeemed; enter not into...

...loss of the godly discipline of the Primitive Church — under which, " at the beginning of Lent, all such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance ; and that it is much to be wished that the said discipline may be restored again." But few can seriously...