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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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In the twelfth and last place, the new Testament holds out to us an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin: Whether the civill Sanhedrin was wholly taken away by Herod, and another civill Sanhedrin not substitute in the place of that which he took away, but the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin only remaining, as some hold; or whether both did then continue though not so clearly distinct, as others hold: This we find that there was an Ecclesiastical government in the hands of Church-officers; for 1. there was a council of the Priests and Elders and Scribes Matth. 2. 4. & 16. 21. & 21. 23. & 26. 57, 59. & 27. 1. 12. Mark 14. 43. Luke 22. 66. Acts 4. 5. mThe Centurists say that those ⟨p. 27⟩Elders were joined with the Priests in the government of the Church, with Ecclesiastical persons in Ecclesiastical affairs. Which hath been rightly taken for a president of our ruling Elders. 2. That Council is called [Greek or Hebrew] Luke 22. 66. Acts 22. 5. the Presbytery or Eldership: the very name which Paul gives to that assembly of Church-officers, who ordained Timothy, 1 Tim. 4. 14. is it credible that the Apostle would transfer the name of a civill Court to signify an Assembly, which was merely Ecclesiastical and not Civill? The very use of the word in this sense by the Apostle, tells us that in his age the word [Greek or Hebrew] was taken in an Ecclesiastical notion only. 3. This Council did examine Jesus concerning his Disciples and his doctrine, and received witnesses against him, and pronounced him guilty of blasphemy,