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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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For further confirmation of the same thing, read Conc. Ancyr. Can. 4. Can. 5. Can. 6. Can. 7. Can. 8. Can. 9. Co•t. Nican. Can. 11. Can. 12. Can. 13. Can. 14. I do not mean to ⟨p. 560⟩approve the too great severity of this ancient Discipline, nor do I hold it agreeable to the Will of Christ, that such as give good signs of true Repentance, and do humbly confess and really forsake their sin, having also made public declaration of their Repentance to the Church for removing the public scandal, ought notwithstanding of all this, to be suspended from the Sacrament when they desire to receiv• it. For the Word doth not warrant the suspending of scandalous sinners from the Sacrament, until such a set determinate time be expired, but only till they give sufficient evidence of Repentance. But setting aside this and such like circumstances, the thing it self, the suspending of a scandalous person from the Sacrament, who is not nor ought not to be suspended from assembling, hearing, and praying with the Church, is the Will of Christ, as I have proved, and was the commendable practice of the Ancient Church, which is the point I now prove against Mr. Prynne.
For further confirmation of the same thing, read Conc. Ancyr. Can. 4. Can. 5. Can. 6. Can. 7. Can. 8. Can. 9. Co•t. Nican. Can. 11. Can. 12. Can. 13. Can. 14. I do not mean to ⟨p. 560⟩approve the too great severity of this ancient Discipline, nor do I hold it agreeable to the Will of Christ, that such as give good signes of true Repentance, and do humbly confesse and really forsake their sin, having also made publike declaration of their Repentance to the Church for removing the publike scandal, ought notwithstanding of all this, to be suspended from the Sacrament when they desire to receiv• it. For the Word doth not warrant the suspending of scandalous sinners from the Sacrament, until such a set determinate time be expired, but onely till they give sufficient evidence of Repentance. But setting aside this and such like circumstances, the thing it self, the suspending of a scandalous person from the Sacrament, who is not nor ought not to be suspended from assembling, hearing, and praying with the Church, is the Will of Christ, as I have proved, and was the commendable practice of the Ancient Church, which is the point I now prove against Mr. Prynne.