William Roye's Dialoijue betwoon a cliriBtian Fatlipr aiul Ins stubborn Son. 4i)0 



a pulilican. and thertore Clirist sayth, let hym be vnto ma. xvüj 

 the as an open synner. He sayth not, vnto tlie hole chiirche. 

 Flye thou hym with compassion, and lett the eongregacion do 

 tliat thynge whiche accordynge to love and charite, is con- 

 formable vnto tlie doctrjn of their hed. Son. Byndeth this 

 coursse the soule also ? Fa. Yt is not ordened to destroy, but 

 rather to edify the cong-regacion with all. iSo. Wherefore then 

 sayth the lorde, what soever ye bynde on erthe, it shalbe bounde in 

 heven? Fa. The power of byndynge, in christis churche ma. xvüj. 

 or congregacion, is alonly with the word of god, declared in the 

 lawe and pophettes ' (which is the kayes of the kyngdom of 

 god, to shitt and to open with all) maiiyfestly to pupblisshe 

 and shewe a synner, yf he repent and beleve the promeses of 

 god through Christ and his gospell, to be delivered from the 

 coursse of the lawe, and consequent- [fol. 31"'.] ly to be losed 

 out of the bondes of death and captiuite of hell. Contrary 

 wyse, yf he go aboute to iustify hym silfe, and to repute euy 

 creature nedfull, or of more value, for his sahiacion, then is 

 tlie bloudde of Christ, with this goddis worde strayghtly, to 

 condempne and declare hym to be the chylde of dampnacion, and 

 presoner of hell. F'or by this meanes is a manne, knowne other 

 to 1)0 of Christis menbers, and parte taker of his kyngdom or 

 not. Son. I perceave nowe that for this intent Paul j. Cor. v. 

 openl}^ did exeommunicate hym which amonge the Corrinthians 

 kepte his mother elawe-. Fa. He which openly synneth, openly 

 ought to be corrected. Ye and yf he will not mekly soffre their 

 correccion beforo all men to be declared as an infect schepe 

 and rotten member, with this coursse worthy to be cutt from 

 the boddy of Christen luen. after that (as longe as he con- 

 tinueth in his maliciousnes) never to eate of the lordes bred, 

 nor yet to drinke of his cuppe with the congregacion. Notwith 

 stondinge where as he schulde nede ayde or socoure, in eny 

 thinge concerninge neghbourhode, we are bonnde by the com- 

 maundemcnt of charite to do oure best for liyiii. and by all 

 meanes possible to seke howe to wynne hym agayne. So. Christen 

 men [fol. o"i".| then of duty are bownde to warne and admo- 

 nisshe one another, and to flye theym whiche are sclaunderous 



prophetes. - mnt.her en Inwe = .stepniother, Stiefmutter. 



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