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Aaron's rod blossoming, or, The divine ordinance of church-government vindicated so as the present…Aarons rod blossoming, or, The divine ordinance of church-government vindicated so as the present…
Aaron's rod blossoming, or, The divine ordinance of church-government vindicated so as the present Erastian controversy concerning the distinction of civill and ecclesiastical government, excommunication, and suspension, is fully debated and discussed, from the holy scripture, from the Jewish and Christian antiquities, from the consent of latter writers, from the true nature and rights of magistracy, and from the groundlessness of the chief objections made against the Presbyterial government in point of a domineering arbitrary unlimited power / by George Gillespie ...Aarons rod blossoming, or, The divine ordinance of church-government vindicated so as the present Erastian controversie concerning the distinction of civill and ecclesiasticall government, excommunication, and suspension, is fully debated and discussed, from the holy scripture, from the Jewish and Christian antiquities, from the consent of latter writers, from the true nature and rights of magistracy, and from the groundlesnesse of the chief objections made against the Presbyteriall government in point of a domineering arbitrary unlimited power / by George Gillespie ...
London: printed by E.G. for Richard Whitaker, 1646
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Mr Prynnes fourth reason is, because the Minister administers the Sacrament to that scandalous unexcommunicated person, as to a person outwardly fitted and prepared, the inward preparation of whose heart for ought he knows may be sincere towards God, and really changed from what it was before. I appeal to every godly Minister, whether this can pacify or secure his conscience, that a scandalous unexcommunicated person living in known profaneness and wickedness, is or may be esteemed a person outwardly fitted and prepared for the Sacrament, yea that the inward preparation of his heart, while he is living in gross scandalous sins, may be sincere towards God and really changed from what it was before: and that therefore he (the Minister) in delivering the Sacrament to a scandalous unexcommunicated person who after admonition of the danger, doth earnestly desire to receive it, as conceiving himself in his own• heart and conscience meet to participate of it, becomes no way guilty, &c? The Lord save me from that Divinity which holds that a scandalous person in the Church may be admitted to the Lords Supper as a person outwardly fitted and prepared for that Sacrament.
Mr Prynnes fourth reason is, because the Minister administers the Sacrament to that scandalous unexcommunicated person, as to a person outwardly fitted and prepared, the inward preparation of whose heart for ought he knows may be sincere towards God, and really changed from what it was before. I appeale to every godly Minister, whether this can pacifie or secure his conscience, that a scandalous unexcommunicated person living in known prophannesse and wickednesse, is or may be esteemed a person outwardly fitted and prepared for the Sacrament, yea that the inward preparation of his heart, while he is living in grosse scandalous sinnes, may be sincere towards God and really changed from what it was before: and that therefore he (the Minister) in delivering the Sacrament to a scandalous unexcommunicated person who after admonition of the danger, doth earnestly desire to receive it, as conceiving himselfe in his own• heart and conscience meet to participate of it, becomes no way guilty, &c? The Lord save me from that Divinity which holds that a scandalous person in the Church may be admitted to the Lords Supper as a person outwardly fitt•d and prepared for that Sacrament.