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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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This of the several degrees of Penitents. I shall yet ⟨p. 559⟩further insist upon, because this alone will prove that we have Antiquity for us. aGregorius Thaumaturgus in his Canonical Epistle concerning those who in the time of the incursion of the Barbarians, had eaten things sacrificed to Idols, and had committed other scandalous sins; doth plainly distinguish these five things thus. [Greek or Hebrew], The weeping is without the gate of the Church, where the sinner must stand, beseeching the faithful that come in to pray for him. [Greek or Hebrew], The hearing is within the Gate in the Porch, where the sinner may come no nearer then the Catechumens, and thence go out again. &c. [Greek or Hebrew], The substration is that standing within the Church door, he go forth with the Catechumens. [Greek or Hebrew], The consistency is that he stand still together with the faithful, and do not go forth with the Catechumens. [Greek or Hebrew], In the last place the participation of the holy Mysteries or Sacrament. He that will read the Epistles of Basilius magnus to Amphilochius will find these five degrees more particularly distinguished, applied to several cases, and bounded by distinct intervals of time. It were too long to transcribe all: bI shall only give you some most plain passages to prove that there was in Basils time a suspension from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper alone, or that a man was suspended from the Sacrament, when he was not suspended from hearing and praying among the faithful.
This of the several degrees of Penitents. I shall yet ⟨p. 559⟩further insist upon, because this alone will prove that we have Antiquity for us. aGregorius Thaumaturgus in his Canonical Epistle concerning those who in the time of the incursion of the Barbarians, had eaten things sacrificed to Idols, and had committed other scandalous sins; doth plainly distinguish these five things thus. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The weeping is without the gate of the Church, where the sinner must stand, beseeching the faithfull that come in to pray for him. , The hearing is within the Gate in the Porch, where the sinner may come no nearer then the Catechumens, and thence go out again. &c. , The substration is that standing within the Church door, he go forth with the Catechumens. , The consistency is that he stand still together with the faithful, and do not go forth with the Catechumens. , In the last place the participation of the holy Mysteries or Sacrament. He that will read the Epistles of Basilius magnus to Amphilochius will find these five degrees more particularly distinguished, applyed to several cases, and bounded by distinct intervalls of time. It were too long to transcribe all: