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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, as Scotus in lib. 4. Sent. Dist. 3. Quaest. 2. distinguisheth two sorts of things which may be called necessary to a Sacrament; ⟨p. 540⟩necessarium simpliciter, and necessarium aliqualiter: the former he calls that without which the Sacrament is no Sacrament: the later, that without which they that give the Sacrament cannot avoid sin, or the want whereof maketh the Ministry guilty; so do I distinguish two sorts of pollution of the Sacrament, one which makes the Sacrament no Sacrament, but a common or unhallowed thing to those that do receive it, as (for instance) if the Sacrament were given by those that are no Ministers, o• to those that are no Church, or without the blessing and breaking of bread: Another which makes the ministration of the Sacrament hic & nunc, and with such circumstances to be sinful, and those that do so administer it to be guilty: and so whatsoever is done in the ministration of the Sacrament contrary to the revealed will of God, is a pollution of that Ordinance. The present Question is of the later, not of the former.
First, as Scotus in lib. 4. Sent. Dist. 3. Quaest. 2. distinguisheth two sorts of things which may be called necessary to a Sacrament; ⟨p. 540⟩necessarium simpliciter, and necessarium aliqualiter: the former he calls that without which the Sacrament is no Sacrament: the later, that without which they that give the Sacrament cannot avoid sin, or the want whereof maketh the Ministery guilty; so do I distinguish two sorts of pollution of the Sacrament, one which makes the Sacrament no Sacrament, but a common or unhallowed thing to those that do receive it, as (for instance) if the Sacrament were given by those that are no Ministers, o• to those that are no Church, or without the blessing and breaking of bread: Another which makes the ministration of the Sacrament hic & nunc, and with such circumstances to be sinful, and those that do so administer it to be guilty: and so whatsoever is done in the ministration of the Sacrament contrary to the revealed will of God, is a pollution of that Ordinance. The present Question is of the later, not of the former.