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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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g Walasridus Strabo (a diligent searcher of the Ancients1 which were before him, and of the old Ecclesiastical Rites) who died about the year 849. mentioneth this suspension from the Sacrament, as an Ecclesiastical censure received from the Ancient Fathers: and he gives three reasons for it, to prove that it is for the sinners own good to be thus suspended. 1. That he may not involve himself in greater guiltiness. 2. That he may not be chastened of the Lord with sickness and such other afflictions as the profanation of that Sacrament brought upon the Corinthians. 3. That being terrified and humbled, he may think the more earnestly of repenting and recovering himself.
g Walasridus Strabo (a diligent searcher of the Ancients1 which were before him, and of the old Ecclesiastical Rites) who died about the year 849. mentioneth this suspension from the Sacrament, as an Ecclesiastical censure received from the Ancient Fathers: and he gives three reasons for it, to prove that it is for the sinners own good to be thus suspended. 1. That he may not involve himself in greater guiltinesse. 2. That he may not be chastened of the Lord with sicknesse and such other afflictions as the profanation of that Sacrament brought upon the Corinthians. 3. That being terrified and humbled, he may think the more earnestly of repenting and recovering himself.
- 1(c) De rebus Eccles. cap. 17. Unde etiam criminum foeditate capitalium, a membris Christi deviantes, ab ipsis Sacramentis Ecclesiastico suspenduntur judicio. Et infra. Sciendum enim a sanctis Patribus ob hoc vel maxime constitutum, ut mortaliter peccantes a Sacramentis Dominicis arceantur, ne indigne ea percipientes, vel majore reatu involvantur, ut Judas, &c. Vel ne (quod Apostolus de Corinthiis dicit) infirmitatem corporis & imbecillitatem, ipsamque mortem praesumptores incurrant. Et ut a communione susperst, terror ejus exclusionis, & quodam condemnationis Anathemate compellantur, studiosius poenitentiae medicamentum appete•e, & avidius recuperandae salutis desideriis inhiare.(c) De rebus Eccles. cap. 17. Unde etiam criminum foeditate capitalium, a membris Christi deviantes, ab ipsis Sacramentis Ecclesiastico suspenduntur judicio. Et infra. Sciendum enim a sanctis Patribus ob hoc vel maxime constitutum, ut mortaliter peccantes a Sacramentis Dominicis arceantur, ne indigne ea percipientes, vel majore reatu involvantur, ut Judas, &c. Vel ne (quod Apostolus de Corinthiis dicit) infirmitatem corporis & imbecillitatem, ipsamque mortem praesumptores incurrant. Et ut a communione susperst, terrore ejus exclusionis, & quodam condemnationis Anathemate compellantur, studiosius poenitentiae medicamentum appetee, & avidius recuperandae salutis desideriis inhiare.