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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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CHAP. IV. That there was an Ecclesiastical Excommunication among the Jews: and what it was.
CHAP. IV. That there was an Ecclesiasticall Excommunication among the Iewes: and what it was.
IT hath been affirmed by some who pretend to more skill in Jewish antiquities than others, that though the Jews had an excommunication which did exclude a man from the liberty of civill fellowship, so that he might not come within four cubits of his neighbour, (and so one man might and did excommunicate another) yet no man was judicially or by sentence of a Court excommunicated, at least not from the Temple, Sacrifices, and holy assemblies.
IT hath been affirmed by some who pretend to more skill in Jewish antiquities than others, that though the Jewes had an excommunication which did exclude a man from the liberty of civill fellowship, so that he might not come within foure cubits of his neighbour, (and so one man might and did excommunicate another) yet no man was judicially or by sentence of a Court excommunicated, at least not from the Temple, Sacrifices, and holy assemblies.
To these I shall in the first place oppose the judgement of others who have taken very much pains in searching the Jewish antiquities, and are much esteemed for their skill therein.