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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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The other thing which Erastus saith, that it was left free to ⟨p. 111⟩the sinner to expiate his sin when he pleased, doth no better agree with the Word. for it was commanded that upon the very knowledge of the sin, the trespass offering should be brought, and the sin confessed Levit. 4. 14. 28. & 5. 3. 4. 5.
The other thing which Erastus saith, that it was left free to ⟨p. 111⟩the sinner to expiate his sinne when he pleased, doth no better agree with the Word. for it was commanded that upon the very knowledge of the sinne, the trespasse offering should be brought, and the sinne confessed Levit. 4. 14. 28. & 5. 3. 4. 5.
Sixthly, whereas Erastus pag. 105. urgeth the universal Law, by which all are commanded to keep the Passover except the unclean, and those in a journey, therefore all others (how flagitious or scandalous soever in their lives) were bound to keep it; I answer. Who knows not, that many universals in Scripture are to be restricted, and not to be understood as the words at first sound? as Jo. 2. 10. every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, that is every Master of a feast Luk. 13. 15. doth not each one of you on the Sabbath lose his Ox or his Ass; that is each one that hath an Ox or an Ass; Jo. 10. 8. all that ever came before me were Thieves and Robbers, meaning whoever before him did make himself the true door, by which the sheep must enter in. So