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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.
CHAP. II. That the Jewish Church was formally distinct from the Jewish State or Common-wealth.
CHAP. II. That the Iewish Church was formally distinct from the Iewish State or Common-wealth.
IT hath been by some (with much confidence and scorn of all who say otherwise) averred that Excommunication and Church-government distinct from the Civill, hath no pattern for it in the Jewish Church. I am sure (saith Mr Coleman in ⟨p. 6⟩his Brotherly examination re-examined, pag. 16.) the best reformed Church that ever was went this way, I mean the Church of Israel, which had no distinction of Church government and Civill government. Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go. Have you appealed to the Jewish Church? thither shall you go. Wherefore I shall endeavour to make these five things appear: 1. That the Jewish Church was formally […] from the Jewish State. 2. That there was an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin and Government distinct from the Civill. 3. That there was an Ecclesiastical Excommunication, […] from Civill punishments. 4. That in the Jewish Church there was also a public exomologesis or declaration of repentance, and thereupon a reception or admission again of the offender to fellowship with the Church in the holy things. 5. That there was a suspension of the profane from the Temple and Passover.
IT hath been by some (with much confidence and scorne of all who say otherwise) averred that Excommunication and Church-government distinct from the Civill, hath no patterne for it in the Jewish Church. I am sure (saith Mr Coleman in ⟨p. 6⟩his Brotherly examination re-examined, pag. 16.) the best reformed Church that ever was went this way, I meane the Church of Israel, which had no distinction of Church government and Civill government. Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou goe. Have you appealed to the Jewish Church? thither shall you goe. Wherefore I shall endeavour to make these five things appeare: 1. That the Jewish Church was formally from the Jewish State. 2. That there was an Eccleiasticall Sanhedrin and Government distinct from the Civill. 3. That there was an Ecclesiasticall Excommunication, from Civill punishments. 4. That in the Jewish Church there was also a publike exomologesis or declaration of repentance, and thereupon a reception or admission againe of the offender to fellowship with the Church in the holy things. 5. That there was a suspension of the prophane from the Temple and Passeover.