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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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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 Job, chap. 38. and 42. to Isaiah, chap. 6. Christs manifesting of his power to Peter, Luke 5. was after, not at their conversion, so that Psal. 148. 14. But heterogeneous impertinent quotations of Scripture are usual with him: I am sorry I have cause to say it. Some other Scriptures which here he citeth may be expounded of Gods proximity to us, and ours to God in Conversion, Isa. 55. 6. Zeph. 3. 2. Eph. 2. 17. Jam. 4. 7. But that this kind of proximity ⟨p. 528⟩which doth convert, is in the Sacrament, he hath supposed, but not proved.
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 unconceaveably 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