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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. XVII. Antiquity for the suspension of all scandalous persons from the Sacrament, even such as were admitted to other public Ordinances.
CHAP. XVII. Antiquity for the suspension of all scandalous persons from the Sacrament, even such as were admitted to other publik Ordinances.
MR. Prynn in his first Quaere would have us believe that in the primitive times scandalous sinners were ever excommunicated and wholly cast out of the Church, and sequestered from all other Ordinances, as well as from the Sacrament; And since (saith he) in the primitive times (as is evident by Tertullians Apologie cap. 39. De poenitentia lib. and others) scandalous persons were ever excommunicated and wholly cast out of the Church (extra gregem dati) not barely sequestered from the Sacrament. But for further clearing of the ancient discipline concerning suspension, I have thought good here to take notice of the particulars following.
MR. Prynn in his first Quaere would have us beleeve that in the primitive times scandalous sinners were ever excommunicated and wholy cast out of the Church, and sequestred from all other Ordinances, as well as from the Sacrament; And since (saith he) in the primitive times (as is evident by Tertullians Apologie cap. 39. De poenitentia lib. and others) scandalous persons were ever excommunicated and wholy cast out of the Church (extra gregem dati) not barely sequestred from the Sacrament. But for further clearing of the ancient discipline concerning suspension, I have thought good here to take notice of the particulars following.