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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.
We read also in Pirke Rabb. Elieser cap. 38. cthat the Cuthites (who were also called Samaritans) after they had been circumcised by Rabb. D•stai, and Rabbi Zechariah, and had been taught by them out of the Book of the Law; they were excommunicate by Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Joshua the high Priest, 300. Priests, and 300. Disciples, and the whole Church, in the Temple; the Trumpets sounding, and the Levites singing; they did even by the great name of God, excommunicate the Cuthites, that there should be no fellow-ship between any man of Israel and the Cuthites, that no Proselyte should be received of the Cuthites; and that they should have no part in the resurrection of the dead, nor in the building of the house of God, nor in Jerusalem. This passage Doctor Buxtorf, in his Rabbinical Lexicon, p. 2464. and Master Selden de Jure nat. & Gentium. l. 4. c. 8. have observed out of Pirke; and Doctor Buxtorf, both there and dissert de lit. Hebr. thes. 49. noteth the three words used by the Hebrews in this relation, [Greek or Hebrew] that is, they did excommunicate them both by Niddui, Cherem, and Schammata. And so much for the manner and rites.
We read also in Pirke Rabb. Elieser cap. 38. cthat the Cuthites (who were also called Samaritans) after they had been circumcised by Rabb. D•stai, and Rabbi Zacharias, and had been taught by them out of the Book of the Law; they were excommunicate by Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Ioshua the high Priest, 300. Priests, and 300. Disciples, and the whole Church, in the Temple; the Trumpets sounding, and the Levites singing; they did even by the great name of God, excommunicate the Cuthites, that there should be no fellow-ship between any man of Israel and the Cuthites, that no Proselyte should be received of the Cuthites; and that they should have no part in the resurrection of the dead, nor in the building of the house of God, nor in Ierusalem. This passage Doctor Buxtorf, in his Rabbinicall Lexicon, p. 2464. and Master Selden de Jure nat. & Gentium. l. 4. c. 8. have observed out of Pirke; and Doctor Buxtorf, both there and dissert de lit. Hebr. thes. 49. noteth the three words used by the Hebrews in this relation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 that is, they did excommunicate them both by Niddui, Cherem, and Schammata. And so much for the manner and rites.