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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.
But it is very probable, that when an Edomite or Egyptian came to dwell in the Land of Israel, as a proselyte indweller, ob erving the seven precepts given to the sons of Noah, the children of that Egyptian or Edomite in the third generation, might enter into the congregation of the Lord, that is, might upon their desire and submission to the whole law of Moses, be received as proselytes of righteousness or of the Covenant, and so free to come to the Court of Israel, and in all Church relations to be as one of the Israelites themselves. Fifthly, Philo the Jew lib. de victimas offerentibus towards the end, tells us that their Law did prohibit all unworthy persons from their sacred Assemblies, [Greek or Hebrew]. From the same sacred Assemblies of the Church, he saith that their law did also exclude Eunuchs, and bastards, or such as were borne [Greek or Hebrew] (the word used by the LXX in Deut. 23. 2.) where Philo most certainly hath respect to that Law, Deut. 23. understanding by the congregation of the Lord in that pla•e, neither a civill Court nor liberty of marriage, but the sacred or Church Assembly.
But it is very probable, that when an Edomite or Egyptian came to dwell in the Land of Israel, as a proselyte indweller, ob erving the seven precepts given to the sonnes of Noah, the children of that Egyptian or Edomite in the third generation, mi•ht enter into the congregation of the Lord, that is, might upon their desire and submission to the whole law of Moses, be received as proselytes of righteousnesse or of the Covenant, and so free to come to the Court of Israel, and in all Church relations to be as one of the Israelites themselves. Fifthly, Philo the Jew lib. de victimas offerentibus towards the end, tels us that their Law did prohibit all unworthy persons from their sacred Assemblies, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. From the same sacred Assemblies of the Church, he saith that their law did also exclude Eunuohs, and bastards, or such as were borne 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (the word used by the LXX in Deut. 23. 2.) where Philo most certainly hath respect to that Law,