Acts 13;38, 39.—Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.—Acts 10;43.—Mark 2;3-5.—John 6;37.—Ezek. 33;11.
John 8;24.—If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sin.—Acts 8;21.—Matt. 3;7, 8.—Matt. 18;3.
Rom. 2;16.—God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.—2 Cor. 2;15, 16.—2 Tim. 4;2.—Gal. 5;21.
85. How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by Christian discipline?
Thus: when, according to the command of Christ, those who, under the name of Christians, maintain doctrines or practices inconsistent therewith, will not, after having been brotherly admonished, renounce their errors and wicked course of life, are complained of to the Church, or to those who are thereunto appointed by the Church (1 Cor. 5;11); and if they despise their admonition, are, by them, forbid the use of the sacraments; whereby they are excluded from the Christian Church, and by God himself from the kingdom of Christ (1 Cor. 5;13): and when they promise and show real amendment, are again received as members of Christ and his Church (2 Cor. 2;6-8).
1 Cor. 5;11.—If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no not to eat.—Matt. 18;15-17.
