"all they that continue in their evill wayes. . . . must
depart: how far? first, they must be avoided, Declinate,
saith S. Paul, I beseech you brethren, marke them diligently which cause
division and offences, and avoid them. And
this corrects our desire in running after such men, as come with their owne
inventions, Schismaticall Separatists, Declinate, avoid them; if hee be
no such, but amongst our selves, a brother, but yet a worker of iniquity, If
any one that is called a brother, be a Fornicator, or covetous, with such a one
eate not. If we cannot starve him
out, wee must thrust him out; Put away from among you, that wicked man. No conversation at all is allowed to us, with
such a man, as is obstinate in his sin, and incorrigible; no not to bid him God
speed, For he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evill deeds. In this divorce, both the generality, and the
distance is best exprest by Christ himselfe, If thine eye, thine hand, thy
foote offend thee, amputandi & projiciendi, with what anguish or
remorse soever it be done, they must bee cut off, and being cut off, cast
away; it is a divorce and no super-induction, it is a separating, and no
redintegration. Though thou couldest be
content to goe to Heaven with both eyes, (thy selfe, and thy companion) yet
better to goe into Heaven with one, thy selfe alone, then to endanger thy selfe
to be left out for thy companions sake."Monday, September 3, 2018
"'if your right hand causes you to sin'"
"all they that continue in their evill wayes. . . . must
depart: how far? first, they must be avoided, Declinate,
saith S. Paul, I beseech you brethren, marke them diligently which cause
division and offences, and avoid them. And
this corrects our desire in running after such men, as come with their owne
inventions, Schismaticall Separatists, Declinate, avoid them; if hee be
no such, but amongst our selves, a brother, but yet a worker of iniquity, If
any one that is called a brother, be a Fornicator, or covetous, with such a one
eate not. If we cannot starve him
out, wee must thrust him out; Put away from among you, that wicked man. No conversation at all is allowed to us, with
such a man, as is obstinate in his sin, and incorrigible; no not to bid him God
speed, For he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evill deeds. In this divorce, both the generality, and the
distance is best exprest by Christ himselfe, If thine eye, thine hand, thy
foote offend thee, amputandi & projiciendi, with what anguish or
remorse soever it be done, they must bee cut off, and being cut off, cast
away; it is a divorce and no super-induction, it is a separating, and no
redintegration. Though thou couldest be
content to goe to Heaven with both eyes, (thy selfe, and thy companion) yet
better to goe into Heaven with one, thy selfe alone, then to endanger thy selfe
to be left out for thy companions sake."
"a firm and certain knowledge"
"As attention exercises, [Donne's poems] are aimed at allowing the speaker to think a religious doctrine with a certainty that is subjective and existential. In other words, they are meant to create a very specific kind of knowledge: faith."David Marno, Death be not proud: the art of holy attention, Class 200: new studies in religion (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016), 33. The headline comes from Calvin (whom, by the way, Marno has just quoted on p. 25).
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