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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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I have now made it to appear that the Practice, Discipline, and Canons of the ancient Church, are for us in this present controversy about suspension from the Sacrament. In the next place I will produce particular Testimonies of Fathers. I shall take them as they fall to my hand without any curious order. I begin with Isidorus P•lusiota who flourished about the year 431. or (as others say) 440. In the first Book of his Epistles, Epist. 143, to Thalel•us he dissuadeth from giving the Sacrament to three sort of persons. 1. To Jews. 2. To Heretics, of both which he saith that they had once received the doctrine of truth, ⟨p. 565⟩but did after return with the dog to the vomit. 3. To persons of a profane and swinish conversation. dUnto all or any of these he holds it unlawful to give the Sacrament, and that because of a divine prohibition, Give not holy things to dogs, neither cast ye pearls before swine. And he concludeth thus, [Greek or Hebrew]. For saith he the giving of the mysteries to such persons, is unto those who contemptuously give them, a breach out of which they are not awaked.
I have now made it to appear that the Practice, Discipline, and Canons of the ancient Church, are for us in this present controversie about suspension from the Sacrament. In the next place I will produce particular Testimonies of Fathers. I shall take them as they fall to my hand without any curious order. I begin with Isidorus P•lusiota who flourished about the year 431. or (as others say) 440. In the first Book of his Epistles, Epist. 143, to Thalel•us he disswadeth from giving the Sacrament to three sort of persons. 1. To Jews. 2. To Hereticks, of both which he saith that they had once received the doctrine of truth, ⟨p. 565⟩but did after return with the dog to the vomit. 3. To persons of a prophane and swinish conversation. dUnto all or any of these he holds it unlawful to give the Sacrament, and that because of a divine prohibition, Give not holy things to dogs, neither cast ye pearls before swine. And he concludeth thus, . For saith he the giving of the mysteries to such persons, is unto those who contemptuously give them, a breach out of which they are not awaked.