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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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I Come to the second point, that there was an Ecclesiastical government, and an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin among the Jews. This distinction of the two Sanhedrins, the Civill and the Ecclesiastical, is maintained by Zepperus de polit. eccles. l. 3. cap. 7. Junius in Deut. 17. Piscator ibid. Wolphius in 2. Reg. 23. Gerhard Harm. de pass. cap. 8. Godwin Moses and Aaron lib. 5. cap. 1. Bucerus de gubern. eccl. pag. 61, 62. Walaeus Tom. 2. pag. 9. Pelargus in Deut. 17. Sopingius ad bonam fidem Sibrandi pag. 261. et seq. The Dutch Annotations on Deut. 17. & 2 Chron. 19. Bertramus de polit. Jud. cap. 11. Ap•llonii jus Majest. part. 1. p. 374. Strigelius in 2. Paralip. cap. 19. The professors of Groning. (Vide Judicium facult. Theol. academiae Groninganae, apud Cabeljav. def. potest. Eccl. pag. 54.) I remember Raynolds in the Conference with Hart is of the same opinion. Also M. Paget in his defence of Church government, pag. 41. Besides divers others. I shall only add the Testimony of Constantinus L'Empereur, a man singularly well acquainted with the Jewish antiquities, who ⟨p. 9⟩hath expressed himself concerning this point both in his Annotations upon Bertram pag. 389. and Annot. in Cod. Middoth. pag. 187, 188. The latter of these two passages you have here in the cMargin, expressing not only his opinion, but the ground of it.
I Come to the second point, that there was an Ecclesiasticall government, and an Ecclesiasticall Sanhedrin among the Jews. This distinction of the two Sanhedrins, the Civill and the Ecclesiasticall, is maintained by Zepperus de polit. eccles. l. 3. cap. 7. Iunius in Deut. 17. Piscator ibid. Wolphius in 2. Reg. 23. Gerhard Harm. de pass. cap. 8. G•dwin Moses and Aaron lib. 5. cap. 1. Bucerus de gubern. eccl. pag. 61, 62. Walaeus Tom. 2. pag. 9. Pelargus in