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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.
so that if scandalous sinners had been excluded from partaking of these, they had been deprived of their ordinary daily corporal nourishment; which makes a vast difference between their case in the wilderness, and ours at the Lords Table. 5. The Apostle speaks of those scandalous sins, as committed, not before, but after the eating of that spiritual meat, and drinking of that spiritual drink; first this is clear of their Baptism in the Cloud and in the Sea, which was at their passing through the Red Sea, Exod. 14. before any of the gross and scandalous sins there mentioned were committed; and ⟨p. 128⟩therefore was not pertinent to be objected. Immediately thereafter they did eat of the spiritual meat, that is of the manna Exo. 16. and drank of the spiritual drink, that is of the Water out of the Rock which followed them Exod. 17. to give drink to my people, my chosen saith the Lord Isa. 43. 20. Now after those men had eaten of the spiritual meat, and drunk of the spiritual drink, they did fall into Idolatry, Fornication, &c. and this is all which the Apostle saith, thereby warning the Corinthians not to presume upon their partaking in the Ordinances, nor to think all well with themselves, because they were Baptized, and had eaten and drunk at the Lords Table; for after all this they had need to take heed, lest they fall in foul sins, and lust after evil things, and so draw upon themselves the heavier judgements. That which Master Prynne takes for granted (upon a marvellous mistake of the Apostles words) he hath yet to prove, that is, that after some of them had fallen into Idolatry, others into fornication, others into murmuring against God, those who were known to have committed those gross and scandalous sins, were allowed and admitted, as before, to eat of the spiritual meat, and drink of the spiritual drink. I mean not only the Passover, (which is not at all meant in this Text) but even from the Manna and the water of the Rock those scandalous sinners were cut off by death, except such of them as did repent and turn, for whom atonement was made to God. As soon as Moses came into the camp, he gave a charge to slay every man his Brother, and every man his companion which had committed the sin of Idolatry: and for the rest who survived Moses made atonement, and got an answer of Peace from God, concerning them.