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Now, the Church binds him whom she excommunicates, not by plunging him into eternal ruin and despair, but condemning his life and manners, and admonishing him, that, unless he repents, he is condemned. She looses him whom she receives into communion, because she makes him a partaker of the unity, which she has in Christ Jesus. Let no one, therefore, contumaciously despise the judgment of the Church, or account it a small matter that he is condemned by the suffrages of the faithful. The Lord testifies that such judgment of the faithful is nothing else than the promulgation of His own sentence, and that what they do on Earth is ratified in Heaven. For they have the Word of God, by which they condemn the perverse; they have the Word by which they take back the penitent into favor.
The Holy Catholic Church (Book 4 of the Institutes) - John Calvin
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