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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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Answ. Here is another tinkling Cymbal. Do all acknowledge that the Sacraments of the Old Testament were converting Ordinances? There can be no rational account given hereof. Certainly our Writers before cited, and diverse others who deny the Sacraments of the New Testament to be converting Ordinances, never meant to admit that the Sacraments of the old Testament were converting Ordinances. 2. How Circumcision did teach by the eye those who did participate of that Ordinance, and so Infants, is another riddle. 3. If Sacrifices under the Law had been converting Ordinances, yet that cannot be a just parallel to Sacraments, except seeking to make the Lords Supper a converting Ordinance we convert it self into a Sacrifice for sin, as Papists do. But neither doth he offer the least colour of reason to prove that all the external Sacrifices of the old Law were converting Ordinances, which here he affirmeth. The Apostle speaketh otherwise of the Legal Sacrifices, which he saith could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the Conscience: Heb. 99. and therefore calls all those rites carnal Ordinances, vers. 10. for though they were spiritual in respect of their signification and typifying of Christ, and sealing the Covenant of grace to the faithful in the Old Testament, yet they were not spiritual in regard of their giving of grace or working conversion or purging the Conscience, for they had no such operation nor effect.
Answ. Here is another tinckling Cymbal. Do all acknowledge that the Sacraments of the Old Testament were converting Ordinances? There can be no rational account given hereof. Certainly our Writers before cited, and diverse others who denie the Sacraments of the New Testament to be converting Ordinances, never meant to admit that the Sacraments of the old Testament were converting Ordinances. 2. How Circumcision did teach by the eye those who did participate of that Ordinance, and so Infants, is another riddle. 3. If Sacrifices under the Law had been converting Ordinances, yet that cannot be a just parallel to Sacraments, except seeking to make the Lords Supper a converting Ordinance we convert it self into a Sacrifice for sin, as Papists do. But neither doth he offer the least colour of reason to prove that all the external Sacrifices of the old Law were converting Ordinances, which here he affirmeth. The Apostle speaketh otherwise of the Legal Sacrifices, which he saith could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the Conscience: Heb. 99. and therefore calls all those rites carnal Ordinances, vers. 10. for though they were spiritual in respect of their signification and typifying of Christ, and sealing the Covenant of grace to the faithful in the Old Testament, yet they were not spiritual in regard of their giving of grace or working conversion or purging the Conscience, for they had no such operation nor effect.