...with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you, not to keep company,...an extortioner ; with such an one, no not to eat." In the words of the text we may observe, 1. The duty enjoined; including the behaviour required, negatively...

...may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." 2 Thes. iii. 14, 15. " -I have written unto you, not to keep company, if...an extortioner, with such an one, no not to eat." 1 Cor. v. 11. Two things are here evident: first — We are expressly commanded, to withdraw from all...

...supplies the defects and the remissiiess of law ; and is expressly authorized by St Paul (1 Cor. v. 11.) : ' But now I have written unto you not to keep...an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.' The use of this association against vice continues to be experienced in one remarkable instance, and...

...acquaintance of honest men. This sort of discipline is what St Paul authorises, and even enjoins ; ' I have written unto you not to keep company, if any...an extortioner ; with such an one, no not to eat.' But what we do on this score is easily distinguished from what we do out of revenge, by this mark ;...

...with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters : for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you, not to keep company,...railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such a one, no not to eat," chap, v, 9-11. This wholly relates to them that are members of the same Christian...

...a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven Now I have written to you not to keep company ; if any man that is called...or an extortioner, with such an one no not to eat therefore put away from among yourselves the wicked person ;" 1 Cor. v. " Now we command you, brethren,...

...forever." God grant that but few persons of this class may be found in our Lutheran Zion ! Again, " I have written unto you, not to keep company, if any...an extortioner, with such an one, no not to eat.'" 1 Cor. v, 11. In this apostolic injunction all intimate and voluntary intercourse with an1 expelled...

...they had committed iniquity? yea, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Jer. vi. 15. I have written unto you not to keep company, if any...or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 1 Cor. v. 11. Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the...

...from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.' ' Now have I written unto you, not to keep company, if any man,...or an extortioner, with such an one no not to eat!' Let us not be wearied and outraged, when we produce these scripture authorities, by idle tales of the...

...profession whilst we are upon earth, and will bring us at length to the fruition of God in heaven. I) I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with...or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat. Here our apostle tells them, that he had written to them in this, or some other epistle, before he...