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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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3. If this Sacrament be the most powerful and effectual Ordinance of all others, to humble, regenerate, convert, and beget true grace: it will follow that we ought (at least may) give the Sacrament not only to the most ignorant and scandalous within the Church, but to Turks, Pagans, Jews, and to excommunicated persons, as I said before.
3. If this Sacrament be the most powerful and effectual Ordinance of all others, to humble, regenerate, convert, and beget true grace: it will follow that we ought (at least may) give the Sacrament not onely to the most ignorant and scandalous within the Church, but to Turks, Pagans, Jews, and to excommunicated persons, as I said before.
4. He challengeth his Antagonists for crying up and magnifying this Sacrament above the Word preached, and by way of opposition tells them that he hath in some former Tractates proved Gods presence and Spirit to be as much, as really present in other Ordinances as in this. Vindic. pag. 37 yet now I see no man who doth so much as himself, magnify the Sacrament above the Word.
4. He challengeth his Antagonists for crying up and magnifying this Sacrament above the Word preached, and by way of opposition tells them that he hath in some former Tractates proved Gods presence and Spirit to be as much, as really present in other Ordinances as in this. Vindic. pag. 37 yet now I see no man who doth so much as himself, magnifie the Sacrament above the Word.
5. Whereas he brings this proof for his Major Proposition: because the manifestation, revelation, and proximity of God and Christ to the soul, is that which doth most of all humble and convert it. If this hold true in the generality as he propounds it, then the Spirits of just men made perfect and glorified, are converted by the revelation and proximity of God and of Christ, whereof they have unconceivably more then the Saints on earth. But neither in this world doth the manifestation and revelation of God and of Christ, prove conversion and regeneration to be in fieri at that instant when God so manifesteth and revealeth himself, which is the thing he had to prove. I give instance in divers of those Scriptures cited by himself: Gods revealing of himself to