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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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zHe therefore who either cannot through ignorance, or doth not through impenitency and hardness of heart, examine himself, and is known to be such a one by his excusing, justifying, or not confessing his scandalous sin, or continuing in the practice thereof, ought not to be admitted to that holy Ordinance which is instituted only for such as can and do humbly and soundly examine themselves, and consequently not intended for unconverted impenitent persons.
zHe therefore who either cannot through ignorance, or doth not through impenitency and hardnesse of heart, examine himself, and is known to be such a one by his excusing, justifying, or not confessing his scandalous sin, or continuing in the practice thereof, ought not to be admitted to that holy Ordinance which is instituted onely for such as can and do humbly and soundly examine themselves, and consequently not intended for unconverted impenitent persons.
- zUrsinus Tract. Theol. pag. 650. edit. 1584. Ad Coenam Domini autem nulli nisi adulti, qui & probare seipsos possunt, & hanc probationem confessione & vita ostendant. Quid porro de his faciendum qui vitam Christianis indignam agunt? Ecclesiastica disciplina coercendi sunt.
Seventhly, That Ordinance unto which one may not come without a wedding garment, is no converting Ordinance. But the Supper of the Lord, the marriage feast of the Kings son, is an Ordinance unto which one may not come without a wedding garment. Ergo. The Proposition hath this reason for it. If a man must needs have a wedding garment that comes, then he must needs be converted that comes; for what-ever ye call the wedding garment, sure it is a thing proper to the Saints, and not common to unconverted sinners, and the want of it doth condemn a man into utter darkness, Matth. 22. 13. The Assumption is clear from