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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 hath been much controverted, what should be the neaning of that commination, so frequently used in the Law of Moses: that soul shall be cut off from among his people. The radix [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth properly such a cutting off, as is like the cutting off a Branch from the Tree: and [Greek or Hebrew] cutting off, is applied to divorcement, Deut, 24. 1. a bill of divorcement, in the Hebrew, ⟨p. 52⟩of cutting off. So Isa. 50. 1. Jer. 3. 8. It is certain that [Greek or Hebrew] carath doth not necessarily signify to cut off by death, destruction, or a total abolition of the very existence of him that is cut off, but any cutting off, by whatsoever loss or punishment it be. The Septuagints render it, not seldom, by such words as signify the loss or punishment of the party, without destroying him, as by [Greek or Hebrew], abscindo, amputo, succid•, excindo, [Greek or Hebrew] avello, abstraho, [Greek or Hebrew], demitto [Greek or Hebrew], circumcido, [Greek or Hebrew], aufere, [Greek or Hebrew] percutio, [Greek or Hebrew] verbero. Sometime they render it by [Greek or Hebrew] contero, extero, terendo excutio: to strike out, (sometime, to wash out, or, to wipe off spots or filth, as H. Stephanus tells us: thence [Greek or Hebrew], the cloth wherewith we wipe our hands when we wash them) Numb. 19. 13. that soul shall be cut off from Israel. The Septuagints [Greek or Hebrew]. Yea where they render it by [Greek or Hebrew], that [Greek or Hebrew] or cutting off is sometimes meant of captivity Amos 1. 5. sometimes of the decay and dissolution of a Monarchy Ezech. 31. 12. Sometimes of the deposition or repudiating of Priests. 1 Sam. 2. 33. the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine Altar. Sometimes generally for a judgement or punishment, Isa. 22. 25. The English translators in some places where it is [Greek or Hebrew] in the original and [Greek or Hebrew], render it to fail,