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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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CHAP. III. That the Jews had an ecclesiastical Sanhedrin and Government distinct from the civill.
CHAP. III. That the Iewes had an ecclesiasticall Sanhedrin and Government distinct from the civill.
Divers Authors cited for the ecclesiastical Sanhedrin of the Jews. The first Institution thereof, Exo. 24. That the choosing & calling forth of these 70 Elders is not coincident with the choosing of the 70 Elders mentioned Num. 11. nor yet with the choosing of Judges Exod. 18. The institution of two coordinate Governments, cleared from Deut. 17. A distinct Ecclesiastical government settled by David, 1 Chro. 23. and 26. The same distinction of Civill and Church▪ government revived by Jehoshaphat, 2 Chro. 19. That Text vindicated. Two distinct Courts, one Ecclesiastical, another Civill, proved from Jerem. 26. Another argument for an Ecclesiastical Senate from