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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 As for Manasseh his conversion 2 Chron. 33. 11. 12. it was wrought by the means of affliction, setting home upon his Conscience that Word of God mentioned in the verse immediately preceding, which saith and the Lord spake to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken. Let him show the like instance of the conversion by the Sacrament of such as would not hearken to the Word, and I shall yield the cause. The Word is express, that affliction is one special powerful mean of conversion, but it no where saith any such thing of the Sacrament. 4. It was also incumbent to him to prove that afflictions do convert without the Word, not only at such times and in such places as do sequester a person from the liberty of hearing the Word preached, but also when and where the Word is freely enjoyed. Otherwise how far is he from concluding by Analogy the point he had to prove? which is, that an unregenerate person living ⟨p. 534⟩under the Ministry of the Gospel, and being an ordinary hearer, never converted by the Word, may nevertheless (according to the dispensation of the grace of God revealed in Scripture) be converted by the Sacrament received?
3 As for Manasseh his conversion 2 Chron. 33. 11. 12. it was wrought by the means of affliction, setting home upon his Conscience that Word of God mentioned in the verse imediatly preceding, which saith and the Lord spake to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken. Let him shew the like instance of the conversion by the Sacrament of such as would not hearken to the Word, and I shall yeeld the cause. The Word is expresse, that affliction is one special powerful mean of conversion, but it no where saith any such thing of the Sacrament. 4. It was also incumbent to him to prove that afflictions do convert without the Word, not onely at such times and in such places as do sequester a person from the liberty of hearing the Word preached, but also when and where the Word is freely enjoyed. Otherwise how far is he from concluding by Analogy the point he had to prove? which is, that an unregenerate person living ⟨p. 534⟩under the Ministery of the Gospel, and being an ordinary hearer, never converted by the Word, may neverthelesse (according to the dispensation of the grace of God revealed in Scripture) be converted by the Sacrament received?