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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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14. Object. But is there any pattern or president in the Jewish Church, for keeping back scandalous sinners from the Sacrament?
14. Object. But is there any patterne or president in the Jewish Church, for keeping backe scandalous sinners from the Sacrament?
Ans. There is; for I have proved a keeping back of notorious sinners both from the Passover, and from the Temple it self which had a Sacramental signification and was a Type of Christ and Communion with him. It is worthy of observation that by the Chaldee paraphrase, Exod. 12. 43. Any Israelite who was [Greek or Hebrew] an apostate, might not eat of the Passover. Again, verse 48. [Greek or Hebrew] & omnis prophanus. So the Latin Interpreter of Onkelos: And no profane person shall eat of it. The word is used not only of a Heathen, but of any profane person, as Prov. 2. 16. where the Chaldee expresseth the whorish woman (though a Jewess) by the name of [Greek or Hebrew]. It cometh from [Greek or Hebrew] to be prophaned, è sancto prophanum fieri. Surely Onkelos had not thus paraphrased upon Exod. 12. if it had not been the Law of the Jews, that notorious profane persons should be kept back from the Passover.
Ans. There is; for I have proved a keeping back of notorious sinners both from the Passeover, and from the Temple it selfe which had a Sacramentall signification and was a Type of Christ and Communion with him. It is worthy of observation that by the Chaldee paraphrase,