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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
5
Of Church Censures
Church censures are necessary, for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren, for deterring of …
Of Church Censures
The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the …
Of Church Censures
For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper for …
Of Church Censures
… remit sins; to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the ministry of the Gospel, and …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
… are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of …
WLC
Westminster Larger Catechism
1
What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?
… against means, mercies, judgments, light of nature, conviction of conscience, public or private admonition, censures of the church, civil punishments; and our prayers, purposes, promises, vows, covenants, and engagements …
BCO
Book of Church Order (PCA)
28
30-4
30-4. Excommunication is the excision of an offender from the communion of the Church. This censure is to be inflicted only on account of gross crime or heresy …
36-2
36-2. Church censures and the modes of administering them should be suited to the nature of …
24-7
… accept his resignation and dissolve the official relationship which exists between him and the church. The ruling elder or deacon, though chargeable with neither heresy nor immorality, may become …
30-1
30-1. The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, …
12-5
12-5. The church Session is charged with maintaining the spiritual government of the church, for which purpose …
35-14
35-14. An officer or private member of the church refusing to testify may be censured for contumacy.
37-1
… have now fulfilled the time of your censure, we, of the __________________ Presbytery (or Church Session) do hereby, in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus …
37-9
37-9. In the case of the removal of censures from, or the restoration of, a minister, jurisdiction shall be as follows: a. If …
Preliminary Principles
II. PRELIMINARY PRINCIPLES The Presbyterian Church in America, in setting forth the form of government founded upon and agreeable to …
36-6
… brother, and of the decision to cut him off from the communion of the church. He shall then show from Matthew 18:15-18 and 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 the authority of …