Question 43 — Wherein doth the exercise of the authority for discipline committed unto the elders of the church consist?

Answer — a) In personal private admonition of any member or members of the church, in case of sin, error, or any miscarriage known unto themselves;  b) in public admonition in case of offences persisted in, and brought orderly to the knowledge and consideration of the church;  c) in the ejection of obstinate offenders from the society and communion of the church; d) 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.

a) Matt. xviii. 15; 1 Thess. v. 14; 1 Cor. iv. 14; Titus i. 13, ii. 15; 2 Tim. iv. 2.
b) 1 Tim. v. 19, 20; Matt. xviii. 16, 17.
c) Titus iii. 10; 1 Tim. i. 20; Matt. xviii. 17; 1 Cor. v. 5; Gal. v. 12.
d) 2 Cor. ii. 7, 8; Gal. vi. 1; 2 Thess. iii. 15.

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