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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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These Testimonies of Maimonides, and the observations made thereupon, beside all that hath been said in this preceding Book, will make it manifest that the Spiritual censure of excommunication was translated and taken from the Jewish Church into the Christian Church.
These Testimonies of Maimonides, and the observations made thereupon, beside all that hath been said in this preceding Book, will make it manifest that the Spirituall censure of excommunication was translated and taken from the Jewish Church into the Christian Church.
Furthermore, beside all the Scriptural proofs already brought, I shall desire another Text, Nehem. 13. 1, 3. to be well weighed. After the reading of the law (Deut. 23. 3.) that the Amm•nite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever, it came to pass, saith the Text, when they heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. I conceive that this separation was a casting out of the Church of Israel, and is not meant here of a civill separation from honours and privileges, nor yet only in reference to the dissolution of unlawful marriages. I understand also by the prohibition of entering into the congregation of the Lord Deut. 23. 1, 2, 3. that such were not to be received into Church communion. Ostendit autem qui a caetibus fidelium debeant excludi. He showeth who ought to be excluded from the assemblies of the faithful, saith Aretius upon Deut. 23. 1. Hic dicitur Ecclesia Dei atrium mundorum, quod non debebant tales ingredi. Here that Court of the Temple which was appointed only for the clean, is called the Congregation of God, whereunto such persons ought not to enter, saith Hugo Cardinalis upon the same place. Audita lege de duabus inimicis gentibus anathematizandis, &c. Having heard the law concerning the two hostile Nations, to be anathematized or accursed, saith Bede on