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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.
CHAP. VII. Other Scriptural Arguments to prove an Excommunication in the Jewish Church.
CHAP. VII. Other Scripturall Arguments to prove an Excommucation in the Iewish Church.
Another Scripture proving Excommunication in the Jewish Church (which is also parallel to that casting out of the Synagogue as Erastus himself told us) is Ezra. 10. 8. that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the Princes and Elders, all his Substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the Congregation (or Church, It is Kahal in the Hebrew, and [Greek or Hebrew] in the Greek) of those that had been carried away.
ANother Scripture proving Excommunication in the Jewish Church (which is also paralell to that casting out of the Synagogue as Erastus himselfe told us) is Ezra. 10. 8. that whosoever would not come within three dayes, according to the counsell of the Princes and Elders, all his Substance should be forfeited, and himselfe separated from the Congregation (or Church, It is Kahal in the Hebrew, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the Greeke) of those that had been carryed away.
This separation from the Congregation or Church is not meant of banishment, but of Excommunication, as it is interpreted by Lyra, Hugo Cardinalis, Cajetan, Nicholaus Lombardus, Mariana, Cornelius a lapide: of Protestants Pellicanus, Lavater, Diodati, the Dutch Annotations, the late English Annotations; all upon the place. Also by Zepperus de pol. eccl. lib. 3. cap. 7. and divers others who cite that place occasionally. Ampsingius disp. advers. Anabaptist. pag. 276. doth from that place confute the Anabaptists tenet, that there was no other but a Civill Tribunal in the Jewish Church. Bede upon the place calls this Assembly a Synod, Anita Synodo &c. Josephus antiq.