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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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3 Whereas Master Prynne thinks that unclean persons were excluded from all Ordinances, as well as from the Passover, first, what saith he to that which Erastus holdeth and (as he thinks) grounded upon Scripture, namely that all unclean persons as well as others, were admitted to the feast of expiation? Next, what saith he to that which is observed by Master Selden and divers others, namely, that some unclean persons might come not only to the mountain of the house of the Lord, but might also enter into the intermurale? Into that utmost Court the heathens might come and pray; & so might the Israelites that were not legally clean saith gArias Montanus.
3 Whereas Master Prynne thinkes that uncleane persons were excluded from all Ordinances, as well as from the Passeover, first, what saith he to that which Erastus holdeth and (as he thinkes) grounded upon Scripture, namely that all uncleane persons as well as others, were admitted to the feast of expiation? Next, what saith he to that which is observed by Master Selden and divers others, namely, that some uncleane persons might come not onely to the mountaine of the house of the Lord, but might also enter into the intermurale? Into that utmost Court the heathens might come and pray; & so might the Israelites that were not legally cleane saith gArias Montanus.
- gDe tempfabrie. p. 15. in quod (at•ium) exte•i, id est Gentes, quae Israolis nomen non prosit erentur, conve nire ad orandum poss•nt: & Isr•elitae etiam qui caeremoniali ritu puri non essent:
The fourth and fifth Answers which Mr. Prynne gives that there is no such warrant for keeping back scandalous persons from the Lords Table, as there was for keeping back the unclean from the Passover; and that suspension for legal uncleanness: proves not suspension for moral uncleanness, These I say do but petere principium, and therefore to be passed over, because he takes for granted what is in controversy.