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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.
lParaeus puts this difference between the Word and Sacraments; that the Word is a mean appointed both for beginning and confirming faith: the Sacraments means of confirming it after it is begun. That the Word belongs both to the converted and to the unconverted: the Sacraments are intended for those who are converted and do believe, and for none others.
lParaeus puts this difference between the Word and Sacraments; that the Word is a mean appointed both for beginning and confirming faith: the Sacraments means of confirming it after it is begun. That the Word belongs both to the converted and to the unconverted: the Sacraments are intended for those who are converted and do beleeve, and for none others.
- lExplic. Catech. Quaest. 67. Verbum est instrumentum Spiritus sancti, per quod incl•oat & confirmat in nobis fidem ideoque verbum debet praeire. Sacramenta sunt organa Spiritus sancti per quae fidem inchoatam confirmat: ideoque Sacramenta debent sequi. Ibid. Quaest. 81. Art. 1. Sacramenta tantum sunt instituta fidelibus & conversis, ut his promissionem Evangelii obsignent, & fidem confirment. Verbum quidem est conversis, & non conversis commune, ut conversi confirmentur, nondum conversi convertantur: Sacramenta vero ad solos fideles pertinent.Explic. Catech. Quaest. 67. Verbum est instrumentum Spiritus sancti, per quod incl•oat & confirmat in nobis fidem ideoque verbum debet praeire. Sacramenta sunt organa Spiritus sancti per quae fidem inchoatam confirmat: ideoque Sacramenta debent sequi. Ibid. Quaest. 81. Art. 1. Sacramenta tantum sunt instituta fidelibus & conversis, ut his promissionem Evangelii obsignent, & fidem confirment. Verbum quidem est conversis, & non conversis commune, ut conversi confirmentur, nondum conversi convertantur: Sacramenta vero ad solos fideles per•inent.