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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.
In the first branch, the word translated assembly is [Greek or Hebrew] sod which properly signifieth a secret, and is used for counsel (because counsel ought to be secret) or for the place of counsel, or assembly of Counsellors. Pagnin in his Thesaurus p. 1761. readeth this place with Hierome, in consilio, or otherwise saith he, in concilio. Vatablus: in concilio populi mei non erunt. The Septuagints read [Greek or Hebrew]: that is, those Prophets shall have no hand in the Discipline of my people. The same word they render in other places by [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], yea by both these put together, Prov. 20. 19. where for the Hebrew sod, the Septuagints have [Greek or Hebrew]. He that revealeth the secret counsels in the Sanhedrin; and it cohereth well with the preceding Verse, where they mention [Greek or Hebrew], Governments. Sometime they expound the word by an Episcopal (I mean not Prelatical) inspection Job 29. 4. [Greek or Hebrew]. God was an overseer of my house. So that, so far as the Septuagints authority can weigh, that place Ezek. 13. 9. must be understood of the secluding of those Prophets from the Sanhedrin, not from the Civill (in which the Prophets were not members) but from the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin.
In the first branch, the word translated assembly is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 sod which properly signifieth a secret, and is used for counsell (because counsell ought to be secret) or for the place of counsell, or assembly of Counsellers. Pagnin in his Thesaurus p. 1761. readeth this place with Hierome, in consilio, or otherwise saith he, in concilio. Vatablus: in concilio populi mei non erunt. The Septuagints read 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: that is, those Prophets shall have no hand in the Discipline of my people. The same word they render in other places by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, yea by both these put together, Prov. 20. 19