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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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Fifthly, neither doth this Question concerning the pollution or profanation, or abuse of the Sacrament, concern those peccata quotidianae incursionis, such sins of infirmity as all the godly, or at least the generality of the godly, are subject unto and guilty of, as long as they are in the world (for then the Sacrament should be polluted to all; for, Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sins?) but only gross and scandalous sins, such as make the Name of God and the profession of Religion to be evil spoken of and reproached, those roots of bitterness which spring up, whereby many are like to be defiled; those that are guilty of such sins, and have given no evidence of ⟨p. 542⟩true Repentance, if they be received to the Sacrament, it is a profaning of the Ordinance.
Fifthly, neither doth this Question concerning the pollution or profanation, or abuse of the Sacrament, concern those peccata quotidianae incursionis, such sins of infirmity as all the godly, or at least the generallay of the godly, are subject unto and guilty of, as long as they are in the world (for then the Sacrament should be polluted to all; for, Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sins?) but onely grosse and scandalous sins, such as make the Name of God and the profession of Religion to be evil spoken of and reproached, those roots of bitternesse which spring up, whereby many are like to be defiled; those that are guilty of such sins, and have given no evidence of ⟨p. 542⟩true Repentance, if they be received to the Sacrament, it is a profaning of the Ordinance.
Now that the admission of scandalous and notorious sinners to the Sacrament in a reformed and constituted Church, is a profanation or pollution of that Ordinance, may be thus proved.