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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.
Wolfangus Musculus in his ecommon places saith thus, Who seeth not what manner of persons we must be when we approach to this mystical Table of the Lord, to wit, not such as do therein first of all seek the fruition of the body and blood of the Lord, as if we were yet destitute thereof; but such as being already before partakers thereof by faith, do desire to corroborate more and more in our hearts, the grace once received by the Sacramental communication of the body and blood of the Lord, and by the remembrance of his death, and to give thanks to our Redeemer.
Wolfangus Musculus in his ecommon places saith thus, Who seeth not what manner of persons we must be when we approach to this mystical Table of the Lord, to wit, not such as do therein first of all seek the fruition of the body and blood of the Lord, as if we were yet destitute thereof; but such as being already before partakers thereof by faith, do desire to corroborate more and more in our hearts, the grace once received by the Sacramental communication of the body and blood of the Lord, and by the remembrance of his death, and to give thanks to our Rede•mer.
- eDe Coena Dom. pag. 350 Quis non videt quales nos ad mysticam hanc Domini mensam accedere oporteat? nempe non tales qui fruiti• nem corporis ac sanguinis Domini primum in ea •aeramus, tanquam illius adhuc expertes: sed qui per fidem illius jam antea participes, gratiam semel acceptam, communication hac Sacramentali corporis ac sanguinis Domini, & mortis ipsius rememoratione, in cordibus nostris magis ac magis corrob•rare, redemptorique gratias agere cupiamus.De Coena Dom. pag. 350 Quis non videt quales nos ad mysticam hanc Domini mensam accedere oporteat? nempe non tales qui fruiti• nem corporis ac sanguinis Domini primum in ea •aeramus, tanquam illius adhuc expertes: sed qui per fidem illius jam antea participes, gratiam semel acceptam, communicatione hac Sacramentali corporis ac sanguinis Domini, & mortis ipsius rememoratione, in cordibus nostris magis ac magis corrobrare, redemptorique gratias agere cupiamus.