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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. IV. That there was an Ecclesiastical Excommunication among the Jews: and what it was.
CHAP. IV. That there was an Ecclesiasticall Excommunication among the Iewes: and what it was.
Fifteen witnesses brought for the Ecclesiastical excommunication among the Jews, all of them learned in the Jewish antiquities. Of the 24 causes of the Jewish excommunication, which were looked upon formally qua scandals, not qua injuries. Of the three degrees of their excommunication, Niddui, Cherem, and Shammata. The manner and form of their Excommunication, showeth that it was a solemn ⟨image 14⟩Ecclesiastical censure. Formula anathematis. The excommunication of the Cuthites. The excommunication among the Jews was a public and judicial act: and that a private or extrajudicial excommunication was void, if not ratified by the Court. The effects of the Jewish excommunication. That such as were excommunicated by the greater excommunication were not admitted to come to the Temple. He that was excommunicated with the lesser excommunication was permitted to come, yet not as other Israelites, but as one publicly bearing his shame. The end of their excommunication was spiritual.
FIfteen witnesses brought for the Ecclesiasticall excommunication among the Jewes, all of them learned in the Jewish antiquities. Of the 24 causes of the Jewish excommunication, which were lookt upon formally qua scandals, not qua injuries. Of the three degrees of their excommunication, Niddui, Cherem, and Shammata. The manner and form of their Excommunication, sheweth that it was a solemne ⟨image 14⟩Ecclesiasticall censure. Formula anathematis. The excommunication of the Cuthites. The excommunication among the Jewes was a publique and judicial act: and that a private or extrajudicial excommunication was voyd, if not ratified by the Court. The effects of the Jewish excommunication. That such as were excommunicated by the greater excommunication were not admitted to come to the Temple. He that was excommunicated with the lesser excommunication was permitted to come, yet not as other Israelites, but as one publiquely bearing his shame. The end of their excommunication was spirituall.