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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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1 If one hear the voice of swearing, that is, hear his neighbour swearing or cursing, which he ought to reveal: and is a witness whether he hath seen or known of it: (that is, whether he himself hath been present at the cursing or reviling (of God Levit. 24. 10, 11. or of man, 2 Sam. 16. 7.) or hath heard it by relation from others, and known it that way. So the Dutch Annotations and the best Interpreters) if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity. The meaning is when one doth for favour or malice (So Aretius and Pareus upon the place) dissemble the truth, and conceal his knowledge, and so make himself partaker of other mens sins. Grotius expounds it by Prov. 29. Who so is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth a cursing and bewrayeth it not. In such a case a man did greatly scandalize all those (were they more or fewer) who knew his dissimulation, and that he did not utter his knowledge. 2 If one had touched any unclean thing, and not being cleansed from his uncleannessm did go into the Sanctuary or touch an holy thing (whether he knew himself to have touched the unclean thing, when he went into the Sanctuary, but did afterward forget it, as the Hebrews understand the place; or whether he did not know of his uncleanness when he went into the Sanctuary) as soon as it was revealed to him by others who did take offence at it, or otherwise brought to his knowledge, he was held guilty till confession and atonement was made. It was not simply the touching of an unclean thing, for which the confession and trespass-offering was appointed: Seeing the Law (saith Ainsworth) maketh such unclean but till evening Lev. 11. 24, 31. when washing themselves and their clothes they were clean, and for uncleanness by a dead man, the sprinkling water cleansed them, Num. 19. 17, 18, 19. Wherefore he resolveth out of the Hebrew Doctors, that this confession of sin, and the trespass-offering was required in case an unclean person ⟨p. 75⟩