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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.
CHAP. V. Of the cutting of from among the people off God frequently mentioned in the Law.
The sense of the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] scanned. That the commination of cutting off a man from his people, or from the Congregation of Israel, is neither meant of eternal death, nor of dying without children, nor of capital punishment from the hand of the Magistrate, nor yet of cutting off by the immediate hand of God for some secret sin. Reasons brought against all these. That Excommunication was meant by that cutting off, proved by six reasons.
THe sence of the Hebrew word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 scanned. That the commination of cutting off a man from his people, or from the Congregation of Israel, is neither meant of eternall death, nor of dying without children, nor of capitall punishment from the hand of the Magistrate, nor yet of cutting off by the immediate hand of God for some secret sinne. Reasons brought against all these. That Excommunication was meant by that cutting off, proved by six reasons.