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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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And it is no obscure footstep of the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin, dwhich is cited out of Elijah, by D. Buxtorf in his Lexicon Chald. Talmud. & Rabbin. p. 1514.
And it is no obscure footstep of the Ecclefiasticall Sanhedrin, dwhich is cited out of Elias, by D. Buxtorf in his Lexicon Chald. Talmud. & Rabbin. p. 1514.
- dPropter meritum assess•rum Sy•edrii, qui occupati sunt in lege, & illuminant Judicium. Et descendit in Babyloniam ad concilium Sapientum. I• non fuit Synedrium Judicum & Magistratus summi, sed collegium doctorum.Propter meritum assess•rum Sy•edrii, qui occupati sunt in lege, & illuminant Iudicium. Et descendit in Babyloniam ad concilium Sapientum. I• non fuit Synedrium Iudicum & Magistratus summi, sed collegium doctorum.
The first institution of an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin appeareth to me to be held forth Exod. 24. 1. where God saith to Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou and Aaron, Nad• and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel. It is a controversy among Interpreters who those seventy Elders were. fTostatus maketh it clear, that they were not the seventy Elders chosen for the government of the Common-wealth, Num 11. Nor yet the Judges chosen by the advice of Jethro,