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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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2. Object. We read not of an Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin adjoined with Moses, but only of a civill Sanhedrin Num. 11. Neither doth the Talmud mention any supreme Sanhedrin but one.
2. Object. We read not of an Ecclesiasticall Sanhedrin adjoyned with Moses, but onely of a civill Sanhedrin Num. 11. Neither doth the Talmud mention any supreme Sanhedrin but one.
Answ. 1. If those 70 Elders, Num. 11. be understood only of the civill Sanhedrin, (which some do not admit, though for my part I do not gainsay it) yet we read of the con•itution of another Sanhedrin or Assembly of 70 before them. Which I have before proved from Exod. 24. 1.
Answ. 1. If those 70 Elders, Num. 11. be understood onely of the civill Sanhedrin, (which some doe not admit, though for my part I doe not gainsay it) yet we read of the con•itution of another Sanhedrin or Assembly of 70 before them. Which I have before proved from Exod. 24. 1.