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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He clear• it in that chapter thus, the Sacraments are like seals appended to writs, which of themselves are nothing, if the paper or parchment to which they are appended be blank. Again, they are like pillars to a house which cannot be a foundation, but a strengthening of a house that hath a foundation; We are built upon the Word, the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. Again, Sacraments are to us from God, that which messengers are which bring good news from men, they declare what is, but do not so much as instrumentally make it to be. These are Calvins similes.
He clear• it in that chapter thus, the Sacraments are like seals appended to writs, which of themselves are nothing, if the paper or parchment to which they are appended be blank. Again, they are like pillars to a house which cannot be a foundation, but a strengthening of a house that hath a foundation; We are built upon the Word, the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. Again, Sacraments are to us from God, that which messengers are which bring good newes from men, they declare what is, but do not so much as instrumentally make it to be. These are Calvins similes.
cB•llinger confuteth the Popish doctrine concerning the Sacraments conferring of grace, by this principle, that the Saints are justified and sanctified before they are sealed and confirmed by the Sacraments.
- cDecad. 5. Serm. 7. Docuit vulgus Sacerdotum & Monachorum Sacramenta novae legis non tantum esse signa gratiae, sed simul etiam gratiae causos, hoc est qu• habeant virtu•m conferendi gra•iam. And after. Sancti & electi Dei non tum primum gratia Dei donisque coelestibus participant, cum Sacramenta percipiunt. Etenim rebus prius quam fignis particpant. And after. Pronde in Coena […] non primum accipiuntur divia […], sed pro acceptis aguntur gratia. Effec his opinor, eviciqu […] […] […] […].