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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.
It is certain from Pirke Rabb. Elierser cap. 38. that Cherem was not without an assembly of ten at least. And it is as certain that Cherem was not only in a solemn, but in a sacred manner performed, which is manifest from that Formula Anathematis, which aDoctor Buxtorf hath transcribed out of an old Hebrew Manuscript; and from banother form, which Hen. Vorstius ⟨p. 47⟩taketh out of Col Bo both showing, that it was not a civill, but a sacred business, done in the name and authority of the God of heaven: and the latter formula still used in most of the Jewish Synagogues as Vorstius informs us
It is certain from Pirke Rabb. Elierser cap. 38. that Cherem was not without an assembly of ten at least. And it is as certaine that Cherem was not onely in a solemn, but in a sacred manner performed, which is manifest from that Formula Anathematis, which aDoctor Buxtorf hath transcribed out of an old Hebrew Manuscript; and from banother forme, which Hen. Vorstius ⟨p. 47⟩taketh out of Col Bo both shewing, that it was not a civill, but a sacred businesse, done in the name and authority of the God of heaven: and the latter formula still used in most of the Jewish Synagogues as Vorstius informes us
- aLexicon Rabbin. p. 828. Ex sententia domini Dominorum, sit in Anathemate Ploni Filius Ploni, in utraque domo Judicii, Superiorum scilicet & Inferiorum, in Anathemate item Sanctorum Excelsorum, in anathemate Seraphim & Ophannim, in anathemate denique totius Ecclesiae, maximorum & minimorum &c.
- bAnother form more full and large see in Vorstius his Animadversions upon Pirke pag. 226. to 230. Decreto vigilum atque edicto Sanctotum anathemizamus. adjuamus, excommunicamus Schammatizamus, maledicimus, execramus ex sententia hujus loci atque ex scientia hujus coeûs, hoc libro legis, sexcentis tredecim praeceptis in illo conscriptis. Anathe. mate quo Joshua devo vie Jericho; malediction quâ maledixit Elisha pueris, & maledictione quam imprecatus est Gichazi servo suo. Shammate quo Schammatizavit Barack Meroz, &c. Nomine Aebthariel Jah Domini Zehaoth. Nomine Michael Principis magni. Nomine Mathatheron cujus nomen est sicuti nomen Domini ejus. Nomine Sandalphon qui nectit coronas pro domino suo. Nomine Nominis 42. literarum. Nomine quod apparuit Mosi in Sinai. Nomine quo dissecuit Moses Mare. Nomine Ehieh ascher Ehieh, Ero qui ero. Arcano nominis Amphorsch. Scripturâ quae exarata est in tabulis. Nomine Domini exercituum Dei Israelis, qui sedit inter cherubim, &c. Maledictus ex ore nominis celebrandi, & tremendi, quod ereditur ex ore Sacerdotis magni die expiationum, &c. Evellatur ipse è tabernaculo. Nolit dominus illi condonare, sed tunc sumet furor & indignatio contra virum illum. Incumbant illi omnes maledictiones conscriptae in hoc libro legis. Expellat nomen ejus sub caelo, & segreget illum in malum ex omnibus tribubus Israelis, juxta omnes execrationes hujus faederis consignatas in hoc libro legis, &c. Haec sit voluntas Dei & dicatur Amen.