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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.
Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau. A profane or scandalous person defileth, you see, many others: and sin was of a defiling nature under the old Testament, as well as under the new. I mean a root of bitterness not plucked up, a profane person not censured, doth defile others, as well as himself. Both Peter and Jude have told us, that scandalous persons are spots and blemishes in the communion of Saints, 2 Pet. 2. 13. Jude vers. 12. So that as Erastus granteth, that one legally unclean could make others legally unclean among whom he came, and therefore was kept off from fellowship and company with the congregation of Gods people: It must likewise be granted, that scandalous persons are to be suspended from the sacred communion of the Christian Church, because if they should be admitted, the Church should be thereby sinfully defiled. For if the saying God speed to a false teacher make us partakers of his evil deeds 2 John 10. how much more doth the admitting of such or the like scandalous sinners to the Lords Table make (I say not all who communicate then and there, but) all who consent to their admission, to be partakers of their evil deeds.
Lest any root of bitternesse sp•inging up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or prophane person, as Esan. A prophane or scandalous person defileth, you see, many others: and sinne was of a defiling nature under the old Testament, as well as under the new. I meane a root of bitternesse not plucked up, a prophane person not censured, doth defile others, as well as himselfe. Both Peter and Iude have told us, that scandalous persons are spots and blemishes in the communion of Saints, 2 Pet. 2. 13. Iude vers. 12. So that as Erastus granteth, that one legally uncleane could make others legally uncleane among whom he came, and therefore was kept off from fellowship and company with the congregation of Gods people: It must likewise be granted, that scandalous persons are to be suspended from the sacred communion of the Christian Church, because if they should be admitted, the Church should be thereby sinfully defiled. For if the saying God speed to a false teacher make us partakers of his evill deeds