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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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Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled. And hence forsooth he will prove that miracles did convert and regenerate men. I had not touched these particulars, were it not that I desire Mr. Prynn himself in the fear of God may be convinced of his making too bold with the Scripture in citing and applying it very far amiss: and that for the future his Reader may be wary, and not take from him upon ⟨p. 532⟩trust a heap of Scriptural quotations, such as often he bringeth.
Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled. And hence forsooth he will prove that miracles did convert and regenerate men. I had not touched these particulars, were it not that I desire Mr. Prynn himself in the fear of God may be convinced of his making too bold with the Scripture in citing and applying it very far amisse: and that for the future his Reader may be wary, and not take from him upon ⟨p. 532⟩trust a heap of Scriptural quotations, such as often he bringeth.
In the fourth place, he tells us, That the things we see with our eyes do more affect, and beget deeper impressions in our hearts, then the things we hear. He means (I think) do more effectually convert, for so he makes the Application, that the very beholding of Christs Person, passion, without the Word, were the most effectual means of working contrition, conversion, &c. Well: What is his proof? He citeth Christs words to his Disciples, Blessed are your eyes for they see: (without adding the rest, and your ears, for they hear) and Simeons words, Mine eyes have seen thy salvation, as if forsooth either Simeon or the Apostles had been converted and regenerated by the seeing of Christs person. He cites also Luk. 23. 46, 47, 48. as if all who (beholding Christs passion and death) smote upon their breasts, had been by that sight converted and regenerated. That the things we behold with our eyes, if they be great or strange things work deep impressions, there can be no doubt of it. But that the hearing of great things may not work as deep impressions, or that seeing without hearing doth convert and regenerate, hath been strongly affirmed by Mr. Prynn, but not yet proved.