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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.
open to me the gates of righteousness, I will go into them, and will praise the Lord. This gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter. The Chaldee saith, The gate of the house of the Sanctuary of the Lord. The gates of Gods Sanctuary, are called gates of righteousness, saith Ainsworth on the place, because only the just and clean might enter into them. We read also that it was written over the gates of some of the Jewish Synagogues, This is the gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter. *Vatablus upon this place, thinks that David speaks by way of antithesis to the former▪ pollution of the Sanctuary by Saul, and other wicked persons, who by coming to the house of God had made it a den of thieve• ▪ But now the righteous shall enter in it. [The righteous] •on to such (saith Di•dati) and […] to ⟨p. 91⟩profane persons, it belongeth to enter in there. 6. The same thing may be proved, from Psalm 15. 1. Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, &c. I know the chief intendment of God in this place is to describe such a one as is a true member of the Church invisible, and shall enter into the Heavenly Jerusalem. But certainly there is an allusion to the Sanctuary, and the holy hill thereof in Jerusalem, as to the type of that which is Spiritual and eternal, which Jansenius upon the place noteth: and the Prophet here teacheth the people so to look upon those offences for which men were excluded from the Sanctuary, as to learn what kind of persons are true members of the Church, and who not; who shall be allowed to communicate in all the Ordinances of the new Testament, and who not; who shall be received into everlasting life, and who not; and thus by the type he holds forth the thing typified; Gesnerus upon the place thinks that communion with the Church in this world is meant in the first words, Lord who shall sojourn (so the word is jagur in the Hebrew, [Greek or Hebrew] in the Greek) in thy Tabernacle. (the name of Tabernacle fitly expressing the moveable and military estate of the Church in this world:) and that reception into the Church Triumphant, is meant in the following words: who shall dwell in thy holy hill? which noteth a permanent and durable estate.