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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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7. Object. King Joash while he yet did right in the days of Jebojada the Priest, sent the Priests and Levites to gather from all Israel, a collection for repairing the house of the Lord, and when they dealt negligently in this business he discharged them to receive any more money so collected.
7. Object. King Ioash while hee yet did right in the dayes of Iebojada the Priest, sent the Priests and Levites to gather from all Israel, a collection for repairing the house of the Lord, and when they dealt negligently in this businesse he discharged them to receive any more money so collected.
Ans. Joash did impose no other collections, but those quae divino jure debebantur, which were due by divine right, saith Wolphius, in 2 Kings 12. The thing was expressly commanded in the Law of Moses, compare 2 Chro. 24. 6. Exo. 30, 12, 13, 14. As for the Kings prohibition afterwards laid upon the Priests, 1. the Priests had still neglected the work till the three and twentieth year of his reign was come, 2. The Priests themselves consented to receive no more money, 3. The high Priest had still a chief hand in the managing of that business, in which also the Priests that kept the door had an interest. All which is plain from 2 Kings 12. 6. 8, 9, 10. And beside all this, it was a money matter, concerning the hiring and paying of workmen, and so did belong to [Greek or Hebrew], to the extrinsical, not to the intrinsical things of the Church.