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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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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 1. Cor. 5. 13. warrants thus much. The Antidote animadverted by P. in the first page yieldeth that excommunication is an Ordinance of God. And indeed 1 Cor. 5. 13. doth not only warrant excommunication as lawful, but enjoin and command it as necessary; for the Apostles words are preceptive and peremptory: Therefore put away from among your selves that wicked person. The thing was not indifferent, but necessary and such as could not without sin be omitted. However Mr. Prynn his asserting from that place that it may be, is a deserting of the Erastian party.
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 yeeldeth that grosse notorious scandalous obstinate sinners, who presumptuously persevere in their iniquities, after private and publike admonitions, without remorse of Conscience or AMENDMENT, may be justly excommunicated from the Church, the society of the faithful, and all publike Ordinances, after due proof and legal conviction of their scandalous lives: and that 1. Cor. 5. 13. warrants thus much. The Antidote animadverted by P. in the first page yeeldeth that excommunication is an Ordinance of God. And indeed 1 Cor. 5. 13. doth not onely warrant excommunication as lawful, but injoyn and command it as necessary; for the Apostles words are praeceptive and peremptory: Therefore put away from among your selves that wicked person. The thing was not indifferent, but necessary and such as could not without sin be omitted. However Mr. Prynn his asserting from that place that it may be, is a deserting of the Erastian party.