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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 as then those that had touched any unclean thing were not received into the Sanctuary, so I will not receive you into fellowship with me and my people, saith the Lord, except you be separate from the sons of Belial. Therefore touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you: Which is not spoken of receiving us into Heaven, but of receiving us into the Tabernacle of God in this life, as is manifest by Levit. 26. 11, 12. the place cited by the Apostle in the words immediately preceding. And I will set my Tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. And in this manner, God saith he will not receive us, except we avoid fellowship with the workers of iniquity, especially in holy things.
And as then those that had touched any unclean thing were not received into the Sanctuary, so I will not receive you into fellowship with me and my people, saith the Lord, except you be separate from the sonnes of Belial. Therefore touch not the uncleane thing, and I will receive you: Which is not spoken of receiving us into Heaven, but of receiving us into the Tabernacle of God in this life, as is manifest by Levit. 26. 11, 12. the place cited by the Apostle in the words immediately preceding. And I will set my Tabernacle among you, and my soule shall not abhorre you. And I will walke among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. And in this manner, God saith he will not receive us, except we avoid fellowship with the workers of iniquity, especially in holy things.
I shall add fourthly, for further clearing of this point in hand, Peters vision, and the interpretation thereof Act 10. & 11. a passage cited by Erastus pag. 138, 139. while he is proving, ⟨p. 109⟩that the thing signified by the legal uncleanness, was only the corruption and Infidelity of nature which excludeth a sinner from heaven. The place is so far from proving what he would, that it proveth the contrary; for it speaketh plainly of that uncleanness which excludeth men from fellow-ship with the Saints in this life; from companying together, from eating together. And when Peter expoundeth the vision, he saith, ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or to come unto one of another Nation: but God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean, meaning for being a Gentile and not a Jew.