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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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4. And if all must be brought in or let in to the Lords Supper, both bad and good promiscuously and without distinction, then it should follow that the Ordinances of Parliament concerning the suspension of all sorts of scandalous persons from the Sacrament are contrary to the Will of Christ: And that Mr. Prynn himself in yielding •ag. 50. and else-where, that scandalous impenitent obstinate persons ought to be not only suspended but excommunicated, doth yield what his Argument concludes to be unlawful. And so I come to that which I have here proposed, viz. the instability and looseness of Mr. Prynns principles in this controversy.
4. And if all must be brought in or let in to the Lords Supper, both bad and good promiseuously and without distinction, then it should follow that the Ordinances of Parliament concerning the suspension of all sorts of scandalous persons from the Sacrament are contrary to the Will of Christ: And that Mr. Prynn himself in yeelding •ag. 50. and else-where, that scandalous impenitent obstinate persons ought to be not onely suspended but excommunicated, doth yeeld what his Argument concludes to be unlawful. And so I come to that which I have here proposed, viz. the instability and loosenesse of Mr. Prynns principles in this controversie.
By comparing divers passages together, I find that he doth profess and pretend to yield the Question, which yet he doth not yield really and indeed.
By comparing divers passages together, I find that he doth professe and pretend to yeeld the Question, which yet he doth not yeeld really and indeed.
First, It is to be observed that he deserteth Erastus and that party in the point of Excommunication. For in the vindication of his four Questions pag. 2. he readily yieldeth that gross notorious scandalous obstinate sinners, who presumptuously persevere in their iniquities, after private and public admonitions, without remorse of Conscience or AMENDMENT, may be justly excommunicated from the Church, the society of the faithful, and all public Ordinances, after due proof and legal conviction of their scandalous lives: and that