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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.
CHAP. X. That if it could be proved that Judas received the Lords Supper, it maketh nothing against the Suspension of known wicked persons from the Sacrament.
Christs admitting of Judas to the Sacrament when he knew him to be a devil, could no more be a president to us, then his choosing of Judas to be an Apostle, when he knew also that he was a devil. Judas his sin was not scandalous but secret, at that time when it is supposed that he did receive the Sacrament. The same thing which M. Prynne makes to have been after the Sacrament, to prove that Judas did receive the Sacrament, the very same he ⟨image 27⟩makes to have been before the Sacrament, to prove that Judas was a scandalous sinner, when he was admitted to the Sacrament. He yieldeth upon the matter that Judas received not the Sacrament. That before Judas went forth, none of the Apostles knew him to be the Traitor except John, yea some hold that John knew it not. That Christs words to Judas, Thou hast said, did not make known to the Apostles that he was the Traitor, and if they had, yet (by their principles who hold that Judas received the Sacrament) these words were not spoken before the Sacrament. Divers Authors hold that Judas was a secret▪ not a scandalous sinner, at that time when it is supposed he received the Sacrament, yea M. Prynne himself holdeth so in another place. He loseth much by proposing as a president to Ministers what Christ did to Judas in the last Supper. Christ did upon the matter excommunicate Judas; which many gather from these words, That thou dost do quickly. And if Christ had admitted him to the Sacrament, it could be no president to us.