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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.
CHAP. I. That if the Erastians could prove what they allege concerning the Jewish Church Government, yet in that particular the Jewish Church could not be a president to the Christian.
CHAP. I. That if the Erastians could prove what they alledge concerning the Iewish Church Government, yet in that particular the Iewish Church could not be a president to the Christian.
The Jewish Church a pattern to us in such things as were not typical or temporal. If it could be proved, that the Jews had no supreme Sanhedrin but one, and it such as had the power of civill Magistracy, yet there are four reasons for which that could be no president to the Christian Church. Where the constitution, manner of proceedings, and power of the Sanhedrin, are touched. Of their Synagoga Magna, what it was. That the Priests had great power and authority not only in occasional Synods, but in the civill Sanhedrin it self.
THe Jewish Church a patterne to us in such things as were not typicall or temporall. If it could be proved, that the Jewes had no supreme Sanhodrin but one, and it such as had the power of civill Magistracy, yet there are foure reasons for which that could be no president to the Christian Church. Where the constitution, manner of proceedings, and power of the Sanhedrin, ure touched. Of their Synagoga Magna, what it was. That the Priests had great power and authority not onely in occasionall Synods, but in the civill Sanhedrin it selfe.