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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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Answ. 1. By this principle the Minister shall become no way guilty, if he deliver the Sacrament to an Heathen, to an excommunicated person, for the same reason will have place in that case as much as in this, viz. God may at the very instant ⟨p. 487⟩before or in the act of receiving change the heart and life of such a Heathen or excommunicate person. 2. A scandalous profane person his unworthy receiving, is casual and contingent in sensu diviso, but not in sensu composite, that is, peradventure God will give him repentance and change his heart and his life, which done, he shall come worthily, and receive worthily: but while he is yet scandalous and neither heart nor life yet changed, his receiving in that estate will certainly be an unworthy receiving: for it implies a contradiction and impossibility, to say that a mans life can be changed while it is not changed, in sensu composite, or that a man can be worthy while he is unworthy. 3. It is a most sinful tempting of the Almighty to ca•l his word behind us, and then expect the working of Omnipotency for that whereof we have neither promise nor example in the word.
Answ. 1. By this principle the Minister shall become no way guilty, if he deliver the Sacrament to an Heathen, to an excommunicated person, for the same reason will have place in that case as much as in this, viz. God may at the very instant ⟨p. 487⟩before or in the act of receiving change the heart and life of such a Heathen or excommunicate person. 2. A scandalous prophane person his unworthy receiving, is casuall and contingent in sensu diviso, but not in sensu composit•, that is, peradventure God will give him repentance and change his heart and his life, which done, he shall come worthily, and receive worthily: but while he is yet scandalous and neither heart nor life yet changed, his receiving in that estate will certainly be an unworthy receiving: for it implies a contradiction and impossibility, to say that a mans life can be changed while it is not changed, in sensu composit•, or that a man can be worthy while he is unworthy. 3. It is a most sinfull tempting of the Almighty to ca•l his word behind us, and then expect the working of Omnpotency for that whereof we have neither promise nor example in the word.