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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.
Seventhly, the purging out of leaven from the Congregation of Israel, was a significant teaching Ceremony▪ holding forth this duty, that the Church ought to put away wicked persons from among them; for so doth the Apostle expound it 1. Cor. 5. vers. 6. 7. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? purge out therefore the old leaven. Which relateth not only to the purging of their own hearts, but to the purging of the Church, and the putting away of that wicked person, this being the ⟨p. 117⟩scope of the whole Chapter. Now the moral signification of that ceremony of purging out the leaven, did concern the Church of Israel as well as the Christian Church; even as the divers washings under the Law did teach and hold forth the duty of sanctification and purity to the people of God at that time, as well as typify the sanctification of the Christian Church.
Seventhly, the purging out of leven from the Congregation of Israel, was a significant teaching Ceremony▪ holding forth this duty, that the Church ought to put away wicked persons from among them; for so doth the Apostle expound it 1. Cor. 5. vers. 6. 7. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lumpe? purge out therefore the old leaven. Which relateth not onely to the purging of their own hearts, but to the purging of the Church, and the putting away of that wicked person, this being the ⟨p. 117⟩scope of the whole Chapter. Now the morall signification of that ceremony of purging out the leaven, did concerne the Church of Israel as well as the Christian Church; even as the divers washings under the Law did teach and hold forth the duty of sanctification and purity to the people of God at that time, as well as typifie the sanctification of the Christian Church.