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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.
The first Book. Of the Jewish Church-government.
The first Booke. Of the Jewish Church-government.
CHAP. I. That if the Erastians could prove what they allege concerning the Jewish Church Government, yet in that particular the Jewish Church could not be a president to the Christian.
CHAP. I. That if the Erastians could prove what they alledge concerning the Iewish Church Government, yet in that particular the Iewish Church could not be a president to the Christian.
Observing that very much of Erastus his strength, and much of his followers their confidence, lieth in the old Testament, and Jewish Church, which (as they aver) knew no such distinction, as Civill Government, and Church Government; Civill Justice, and Church Discipline; I have thought good, first of all, to remove that great stumbling-block, ⟨p. 2⟩that our way may afterward lie fair and plain before us. I do heartily acknowledge, that what we find to have been an Ordinance, or an approved practice in the Jewish Church, ought to be a rule and pattern to us, such things only excepted which were typical, or temporal, that is, for which there were special reasons proper to that infancy of the Church, and not common to us. Now, if our opposites could prove that the Jewish Church was nothing but the Jewish State, and that the Jewish Church-government, was nothing but the Jewish State government, and that the Jews had never any supreme Sanhedrin but one only, and that civil, and such as had the temporal coercive power of Magistracy (which they will never be able to prove) yet there are divers considerable reasons, for which that could be no president to us.