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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.
1. The cutting off had reference to an Ecclesiastical corporation or fellowship. It is not said, that soul shall be cut off from the earth, or cut off from the Land of the living, but, cut of from his people: more plainly, from Israel, Exod. 12. 15. Num. 19. 13. but most plainly, that soul shall be cut off from the Congregation (or Church) of Israel, Exo. 12. 19. that soul shall be cut off from among the Congregation (or Church) Num. 19. 20. intimating somewhat Ecclesiastical. So Lev. 22. 3. that soul shall be cut off from my presence. The Septuagints [Greek or Hebrew] from me. The Chaldee, from my face. And this was the very cutting off or excommunication of Cain from the Church, by God himself Genes. 4. 14. from thy face shall I be hid. and vers. 14, and Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. It is another and much different phrase, ⟨p. 56⟩which is used to express cutting off from the world, or from the land of the living Ezech. 25. 7. I will cut thee off from the people, and will cause thee to perish out off the Countries, Jerem. 11. 19. Let us cut him off from the land of the living. Zeph. 1. 3. I will cut off man from off the Land. 2. He that in his uncleanness did eat of an unholy thing was to be cut off Levit. 7. 20, 21. yet for such a one was appointed confession of sin, and a trespass-offering, by which he was reconciled and atonement made for him, as M. Ainsworth himself tells us on Levit. 5. 2