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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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Fifteenthly, If the Baptism even of those who are of age must necessarily precede their receiving of the Lords Supper, then the Lords Supper is not a converting but a sealing Ordinance. But the Baptism even of those who are of age must necessarily precede their receiving of the Lords Supper. Ergo.
Fifteenthly, If the Baptisme even of those who are of age must necessarily precede their receiving of the Lords Supper, then the Lords Supper is not a converting but a sealing Ordinance. But the Baptisme even of those who are of age must necessarily precede their receiving of the Lords Supper. Ergo.
The Assumption is without controversy, it being the order observed by Christ and by the Apostles, and by all Christian Churches. The Proposition I prove thus. 1. dWhat better reason of the necessity of this precedency of Baptism, than that Baptism is the Sacrament of regeneration, the Lords Supper the Sacrament of our spiritual nourishment, and one must be borne before he eat and drink. 2. The Apostle saith Gal. 3. 27. As many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Rom. 6. 4. We are buried with him by Baptism into death. Col. 2. 12. Buried with him in Baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God. Therefore if the Sacrament of the Lords Supper be intended only for the baptized, then it is intended only for such as are supposed to have put on Christ, are buried and raised again with him through faith, and consequently, it is not intended for unconverted persons to convert them, but for converted persons to confirm them.
The Assumption is without controversie, it being the order observed by Christ and by the Apostles, and by all Christian Churches. The Proposition I prove thus. 1.