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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.
There are but two places in the new Testament, which seem at first to make much against that which I have said. One is, Luke 18. concerning the Publicans going up to the Temple to pray, as well as the Pharisee. The other is John 8. concerning the woman taken in adultery, whom they brought before Christ in the Temple. I remember yErastus objecteth them both.
There are but two places in the new Testament, which seem at first to make much against that which I have said. One is, Luke 18. concerning the Publicans going up to the Temple to pray, as well as the Pharisee. The other is Iohn 8. concerning the woman taken in adultery, whom they brought before Christ in the Temple. I remember yErastus objecteth them both.
- yConfirm Thes. lib. 1. cap. 2. pag. 99. and elsewhere.
To the first I answer, it rather confirmeth then confuteth what I have said. For 1. The Text saith, Vers. 13. the Publican stood afar off: the Pharisee not so. zGrotius upon the place, Verse 11. noteth, that the Pharisees fault was not in this particular, that he came further into the Temple then the Publican: for the custom was such, that the Publicans were to stand in the Court of the Gentiles, the Pharisees in the Court ⟨p. 86⟩