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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.
(which are the examples given in the Dutch Annotations, and they are examples of scandals) if the thing were hid from him, through the distemper, impetuosity, and passion of his spirit, overclouding the eye of his mind, so that when he hath sworn a scandalous oath, he scarce knows or remembers well the thing. Or thus; If a man had sworn an oath to do a thing, or not to do it, and afterward falsified his oath, either because he could not do what he had rashly sworn, or because he was unwilling to do it, or because he neglected to do it: (Aretius puts this triple case in expounding the Text:) When a man was brought to the knowledge of the falsifying of his oath, being told, or put in mind of it by others, saith Diodati, which was also a case of scandal.
(which are the examples given in the Dutch Annotations, and they are examples of scandals) if the thing were hid from him, through the distemper, impetuosity, and passion of his spirit, overclouding the eye of his mind, so that when he hath sworn a scandalous oath, he scarce knowes or remembers well the thing. Or thus; If a man had sworne an oath to doe a thing, or not to doe it, and afterward falsified his oath, either because he could not doe what he had rashly sworne, or because he was unwilling to doe it, or because he neglected to doe it: (Aretius puts this triple case in expounding the Text:) When a man was brought to the knowledge of the falsifying of his oath, being told, or put in mind of it by others, saith Diodati, which was also a case of scandall.
In any of these three cases, a man was to confess his •inne, when he brought his trespass-offering, and the offering was not accepted without confession: Lev. 5. 5. And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing. And he shall bring his trespass-offering, &c. nThis confession was made in the Priests hearing, and not to God alone, as Mr Prynne affirmeth Vindic. pag. 17. For, 1. It was a ceremonial Law, concerning the external worship of God, and a part of the Law of trespass-offerings. He might as well have said, that the Trespass-offering was made to God alone, without the presence of the Priest or any other 2. He himself doth not deny (but intimate) that till such confession was made, a man was not admitted to make atonement by trespass-offerings. And so do the Jews understand the Law of confession, as we shall hear by and by. Now how could it be known, whether a man had confessed any thing at all, if it was secretly, and to God alone? 3. The sins to be confessed, were oft times scandalous and known to others, (as hath been cleared.) Therefore the confession was to be known to others also. 4 That this confession (not private and auricular, but public and penitential) was made in the Temple,