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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 have thus largely prosecuted my last argument, drawn from the New Testament, mentioning the Council of the Priests, Elders, and Scribes.
I have thus largely prosecuted my last argument, drawn from the New Testament, mentioning the Councell of the Priests, Elders, and Scribes.
And I trust the twelve arguments which have been brought may give good satisfaction toward the proof of an Ecclesiastical Jewish Sanhedrin.
And I trust the twelve arguments which have been brought may give good satisfaction toward the proofe of an Ecclesiasticall Jewish Sanhedrin.
The chief objection which ever I heard or read against this distinction of a Civill Sanhedrin and an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin among the Jews, is this. That neither the Talmud nor the Talmudical writers mention any such distinction, but speak only of one supreme Sanhedrin of 71, and of other two Courts, which sate the one at the door of the Court before the Temple, the other at the gate which entereth to the mountain of the Temple. There were also Courts in the Cities where capital cases were judged by three and twenty, pecuniall mults by three.
The chiefe objection which ever I heard or read against this distinction of a Civill Sanhedrin and an Ecclesiasticall Sanhedrin among the Jewes, is this. That neither the Talmud nor the Talmudicall writers mention any such distinction, but speake onely of one supreme Sanhedrin of 71, and of other two Courts, which sate the one at the doore of the Court before the Temple, the other at the gate which entereth to the mountaine of the Temple. There were also Courts in the Cities where capitall cases were judged by three and twenty, pecuniall mults by three.