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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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CHAP. XV. Whether the admission of scandalous and notorious sinners to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, be a pollution and profanation of that holy Ordinance; And in what respects it may be so called?
Master Hussey in his Plea, pag. 2. doth very much mistake his mark, when in opposition to what I had said concerning the polluting of the Sacrament by the admission of the scandalous, he tells me out of Beza, that the Sacraments remain effectual to the good, though evil men come to them: and thereupon concludeth, that the Sacrament is holy and pure to the believer, notwithstanding the unpreparedness of the wicked: Which is not the thing in question: much less is it the Question, Whether there be any such thing as a pollution of the Sacrament: for this Master Coleman hath yielded (though before he quarrelled that phrase of polluting the Ordinances) giving instance in the using of Cheese instead of Bread, Male dicis, pag. 12. But the true state of the Controversy may be laid open in these few distinctions.
MAster Hussey in his Plea, pag. 2. doth very much mistake his mark, when in opposition to what I had said concerning the polluting of the Sacrament by the admission of the scandalous, he tells me out of Beza, that the Sacraments remain effectual to the good, though evil men come to them: and thereupon concludeth, that the Sacrament is holy and pure to the believer, notwithstanding the unpreparednesse of the wicked: Which is not the thing in question: much lesse is it the Question, Whether there be any such thing as a pollution of the Sacrament: for this Master Coleman hath yeelded (though before he quarrelled that phrase of polluting the Ordinances) giving instance in the using of Cheese instead of Bread, Male dicis, pag. 12. But the true state of the Controversie may be laid open in these few distinctions.