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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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What I have said against the third and fourth opinion, doth militate against Erastus, for he expoundeth the cutting off these two ways, that is either of capital punishment, or of destruction by the hand of God, yet he inclineth chiefly to the last. See lib. 3. c. 6. He toucheth this cutting off in divers places but valde jejunè. And because he is pleased to profess he had no skill of the Hebrew, he appealeth to the word [Greek or Hebrew]. Of which before.
What I have said against the third and fourth opinion, doth militate against Erastus, for he expoundeth the cutting off these two waies, that is either of capitall punishment, or of destruction by the hand of God, yet he inclineth chiefly to the last. See lib. 3. c. 6. He toucheth this cutting off in divers places but valde jejunè. And because he is pleased to professe he had no skil of the Hebrew, he appealeth to the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Of which before.
There is a fifth exposition, followed by many both Popish and Protestant writers, who understand by the cutting off, excommunicating or casting out from the Church, and of this opinion are some very good Hebritians, as Schindlerus lexic. pentagl. pag. 655. Cornelius Bertramus de republica Ebraeorum. cap. 2. Godwin's Moses and Aaron lib. 3. cap. 4. The Jewish Canons of Repentance printed in Latin at Cambridge, anno 1631. where the Hebrew hath [Greek or Hebrew] the Latin hath ordinarily Excommunicatio. So do divers of our soundest writers take the cutting off in the Law to be excommunication. Synops. purr. Theol. Disp. 48. Thes. 24. 39. There are these reasons for it.
There is a fifth exposition, followed by many both Popish and Protestant writers, who understand by the cutting off, excommunicating or casting out from the Church, and of this opinion are some very good Hebritians, as Schindlerus lexic. pentagl. pag. 655. Cornelius Bertramus de republica Ebraeorum. cap. 2. Godwyns Moses and Aaron lib. 3. cap. 4. The Jewish Canons of Repentance printed in Latin at Cambridge, anno 1631. where the Hebrew hath 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Latin hath ordinarily Excommunicatio. So doe divers of our soundest writers take the cutting off in the Law to be excommunication. Synops. pur. Theol. Disp. 48. Thes. 24. 39. There are these reasons for it.