There lieth excommunication for injustice: as ( Matt. 18), “If thy brother offend thee, tell it him privately”; then with witnesses; lastly, tell the Church; and then if he obey not, “Let him be to thee as an heathen man and a publican.” And there lieth excommunication for a scandalous life, as (1 Cor. 5:11), “If any man that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one ye are not to eat.” But to excommunicate a man that held this foundation, that “Jesus was the Christ,” for difference of opinion in other points, by which that foundation was not destroyed, there appeareth no authority in the Scripture, nor example in the apostles. There is indeed in St. Paul (Titus 3:10), a text that seemeth to be to the contrary: “A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.” For an “heretic” is he that being a member of the Church, teacheth nevertheless some private opinion, which the Church has forbidden; and such a one, St.