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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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Ninthly, I argue from that place, Ezech▪ 22. 26. Her Priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane. Will any man say, that they were to put a difference between the holy and ⟨p. 118⟩profane in other Ordinances, and not in the Passover? and why not in the Passover, as well as in other Ordinances? If such difference was to be put in the Passover, then how shall one imagine that no man was kept back from the Passover because of known profaneness or moral uncleanness? for what difference was put between the holy and profane, when the profane were received as well as the holy? Mr Coleman held that this Text reacheth not to the keeping pure of the Ordinances by any act of government, but only that the Priests did profane the holy things in their own practice, by eating in their uncleanness, and also in their ministry because they taught not the children of Israel to put a difference between the clean and the unclean. Maledicis pag. 11. But the Text gives not the least ground to restrain this fault of the Priests here reproved, either to their personal actions, or to their doctrinal ministry. Nay the Text will reach to an act of government neglected; for the word here used to express the distinguishing or putting of a difference between the holy and profane is [Greek or Hebrew] which is often used in Scripture to express an act of government or authority, whereby one person is separated or distinguished from another person, or one thing from another thing, as Ezra 8. 24. Then I separated twelve of the chief of the Priests, &c. Ezra 10. 8. all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation. Here it signifieth such a separation, as was a public censure: why not also Ezech. 22. 26? The same word is used in the story of the division of the Land by Joshua, Josh. 16. 9. And the separate Cities for the children of Ephraim. It is used also to express Gods dividing of light from darkness, Genes. 1. 4