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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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After all these eight considerations, this I must add, that I do not a little admire, how Master Prynne could cite Godwin's Jewish Antiquities lib. 5. cap. 2. for that opinion, that the casting out of the Synagogue was not an Ecclesiastical but only a civill censure. If he had but looked upon the page immediately preceding, he had found this distinction between the Ecclesiastical and civill courts of the Jews; The office of the Ecclesiastical Court, was to put a difference between things holy and unholy, &c. It was a representative Church. Hence is that, di• Ecclesiae. Matt. 18. 17. Tell the Church because unto them, belonged the power of excommunication, the several sorts of which censure follow; and so he beginneth with the casting out of the Synagogue, as the first or lesser Excommunication o• Niddui, and tells us among other effects of it, that the male Children of one thus cast out were not circumcised.
After all these eight considerations, this I must adde, that I doe not a little admire, how Master Prynne could cite Godwyns Jewish Antiquities lib. 5. cap. 2. for that opinion, that the casting out of the Synagogue was not an Ecclesiasticall but onely a civill censure. If he had but looked upon the page immediately preceding, he had found this distinction between the Ecclesiasticall and civill courts of the Jewes; The office of the Ecclesiasticall Court, was to put a difference between things holy and unholy, &c. It was a representative Church. Hence is that, di• Ecclesiae. Matt. 18. 17. Tell the Church because unto them, belonged the power of excommunication, the severall sorts of which censure follow; and so he beginneth with the casting out of the Synagogue, as the first or lesser Excommunication o• Niddui, and tells us among other effects of it, that the male Children of one thus cast out were not circumcised.