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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.
For if the celebration of the divine mysteries refuse even those who are in the very course of repentance, not admitting such, because they are not throughly or wholly purified and sanctified, as it were proclaiming it self invisible and incommunicable unto all who are not worthy to communicate, [Greek or Hebrew], much more they who are yet impenitent are to be restrained from it.
For if the celebration of the divine mysteries refuse even those who are in the very course of repentance, not admitting such, because they are not throughly or wholy purified and sanctified, as it were proclaiming it self invisible and incommunicable unto all who are not worthy to communicate, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, much more they who are yet impenitent are to be restrained from it.
If you please to search further, take but one passage of eCyprian, which speaks plainly to me for suspension from the Sacrament, for he sharply reproves the receiving to the Sacrament such persons as were not excommunicate (for if they had, most certainly he had mentioned that as the most aggravating circumstance) but having committed smaller offences, had not made out the course of public manifesting their repentance according to the discipline of the Church.
If you please to search further, take but one passage of eCyprian, which speaks plainly to me for suspension from the Sacrament, for he sharply reproves the receiving to the Sacrament such persons as were not excommunicate (for if they had, most certainly he had mentioned that as the most aggravating circumstance) but having committed smaller offences, had not made out the course of publike manifesting their repentance according to the discipline of the Church.
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