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heathen icteteters , that they might avoid their pollutions : he is giving direction . lo them as . individuals * not a rule of discipline respecting the Lord's table to be observed by them as a church . This passage therefore is not at all to your purpose . I suppose
you will admit that Judas was an unworthy partaker of the Lord ' s supper , and that Jesus knew him to be such ; yet he did not use his authority to prevent his partaking of it at its first institution , nor direct his other apostles not to partake of it with him .
Instead of shewing that we have aright , authoritatively to exclude any one from the Lord ' s table which is what you should have done , you merely object to my reference to the parable . of the tares , and refer me to two other
passages . I admit that the field mentioned in the parable is the world ; for Jesus so explained it ; and that the parable forbids every species of persecution : but is it
not a species of persecution to exclude persons from any Christian privilege which they think them , selves qualified to enjoy , merely because you think them improper
persons to partake of such privilege ? Surely you will admit ifeafc in Christian churches , however strait their communion , some tares will grow among the wheat > this appears to have been the
c m the primitive churches : and so far the parable will be foumj applicable to churches , which are all planted in the field , the world . This will justify my
reference to and application of it to the case in hand . Matt . xviiL 1 ** - : 18 is itot at all to your pttijfasej for our Lord does not m tii **> - - passage giv <* directions
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about excluding persons from the supper which was not then instituted ; his drscrples could not understand him to" refer to * an institution of which at the time
they had not heard . The passage has no relation to matters of faith , it speaks solely of trespasses committed by one brother against another . Nor does Jesus in this
place give rules to the church respecting its proceedings as a church ; but simply to his disciples as individuals respecting the manner in which they should
proceed in order to convince those who trespass against them of the impropriety of their conduct . Nothing is said in the passage of the relation in which the offender
should be placed with respect to the church if he could not be convinced of his fault ; but it is simply said " let him be unto tkee [ the injured person ] as an heathen man and a publican .
It is clear this passage can have nothing to do with the point in hand . In 1 Cor . Chap . v . the apostle is speaking of the case of the incestuous person , one who was notoriously immoral ; of
course the language he uses is not to be applied to a case essentially different , that of a person who is supposed to be sceptical , or erroneous in judgment , for a man may . be such and not be a wicked
person . Besides , Paul does not mention the Lord ' s supper any where in the chapter , nor say any thing about putting persons from the Lord ' s supper ; but exhorts Christians not to asso
ciate with , to entertain at theftr tables ,-or'be entertained by , pro ~ fesso r * of the gospel who wev $ evidently immoral characters . It . seems to me the passages you
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/25/
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