DESCRIPTION: They that are regularly and justly excommunicated, they are bound in heaven; the wrath of God abides upon them. While they justly stand excommunicated, they ordinarily stand bound to damnation. I say ordinarily, because it is possible that the case may be so, that they may desire to do what is proper to be restored, and may not have opportunity. For we may take that, Matthew 16:19, "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven," etc. as an implicit declaration of Christ, that he never will suffer a truly godly man by his obstinacy justly to bring such a censure upon him, and that he never will give an excommunicate person repentance, except it be in that way of his using proper means to be restored. So that excommunication does as much mark out men as being in a damnable condition, as if it made them so. - WJE 13:527

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Term Set A: excommunicate excommunication excommunicable excommunicating excommunicating

Term Set B: restore restored damnation damned church

Max Distance Between Terms = 6

Reference List A/B

WJEO 9:413 - A History of the Work of Redemption
WJEO 15:358 - Notes on Scripture

Reference List B/A

WJEO 9:425 - A History of the Work of Redemption
WJEO 13:527 - The "Miscellanies," a-500
WJEO 15:358 - Notes on Scripture
WJEO 20:343 - The "Miscellanies," 833-1152
WJEO 22:69 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742
WJEO 22:71 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742
WJEO 22:74 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742
WJEO 22:76 - Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742

Term Set A: excommunicable, excommunicate, excommunicating, excommunication

Term Set B: church, damnation, damned, restore, restored

Reference List: 9:413 , 9:425 , 13:527 , 15:358 , 20:343 , 22:69 , 22:71 , 22:74 , 22:76