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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 publique Ordinances.
O• the four degrees of Penitents in the ancient Church and of the Suspension of some unexcommunicated persons from the Lords Supper who did join with the Church in the hearing of the word and prayer. Proved out of the ancient Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Nice, Arles, the sixth and eighth General Councils, out of Gregorius Thaumaturgus, and Basilius Magnus, confirmed also out of Zonaras, Balsamon, Albaspin•us. The Suspension of all sorts of scandalous sinners in the Church from the Sacrament further confirmed out of Isidorus Pelusiota, Dionysius Areopagita with his Scholiast Maximus, and his paraphrast Pachimeres. Also out of Cyprian, Justin Martyr, Chrysostom, Ambrose, Augustine, Gregorius Magnus, Walafridus Strabo.
O• the foure degrees of Penitents in the ancient Church and of the Suspension of some unexcommunicated persons from the Lords Supper who did joyn with the Church in the hearing of the word and prayer. Proved out of the ancient Canons of the Councels of Ancyra, Nice, Arles, the sixth and eighth General Councels, out of Gregorius Thaumaturgus, and Basilius Magnus, confirmed also out of Zonaras, Balsamon, Albaspin•us. The Suspension of all sorts of scandalous sinners in the Church from the Sacrament further confirmed out of Isidorus Pelusiota, Dionysius Areopagita with his Scholiast Maximus, and his paraphrast Pachimeres. Also out of Cyprian, Justin Martyr, Chrysostome, Ambrose, Augustine, Gregorius Magnus, Walafridus Strabo.