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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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And if Master Prynne can prove, that those unclean persons who were excluded from the Sanctuary, were not excluded from the Passover, let him try it. That this thing may be yet better understood, let us observe with Tostatus in Levit. 22. Quest. 7. a threefold separation of the unclean under the Law: some were separate only from the Sanctuary and the holy things; for he that had but touched a man or a woman, who had an issue, or had touched the Bed, Clothes, or any thing else, which had been under him or her, was not permitted to come unto the Tabernacle, till he was cleansed Lev. 15. Others were separated both from the holy things, and from the company or society of their Neighbours, yet not cast out of the camp: for this he gives the case of women having an issue of blood, who were put apart seven days Lev. 15. and for the same space a woman after the birth of a male Child, was unclean, so far as to be kept apart from human society, but she did continue unclean three and thirty days longer, as to the Sanctuary and hallowed things, during which space of the three and thirty days, she was not separated from company and society, as in the first seven days, only she was forbidden to touch any hallowed thing, or to come into the Sanctuary. There was a third sort separated not only from the Sanctuary, and from humane society, but also cast out of the camp, which was the case of Lepers. I conclude, all unclean persons whatsoever were excluded from the Tabernacle Lev. 15. 31. and from eating of the flesh of the Sacrifices Lev. 7. 20. 21. Neither might any of the Sons of Aaron having his uncleanness upon him eat of the holy things, though it was his Food Lev. 22. v. 2. to 7. in which places cutting off is appointed to be the punishment, ⟨p. 98⟩not for unclean persons their being in the camp, but for their coming to the Tabernacle, or for their eating of the holy things; and accordingly it is said