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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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After that this unlucky child had been nursed upon so bad milk, it came at last to eat strong food, and that was Arbitrary Government, under the name of Royal Prerogative. Mr. John Wemys (sometime Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland) as great a Royalist as any of his time, in his book de Regis primatu, lib. 1. cap. 7. doth utterly dissent from and argue against the distinction of Civil and Ecclesiastical laws, and against the Synodical power of censures; holding that both the power of making Ecclesiastical laws, and the corrective power to censure Transgressors, is proper to the Magistrate.
After that this unlucky child had been nursed upon so bad milk, it came at last to eat strong food, and that was Arbitrary Government, under the name of Royall Prerogative. Mr. Iohn Wemys (sometime Senator of the Colledge of Justice in Scotland) as great a Royalist as any of his time, in his book de Regis primatu, lib. 1. cap. 7. doth utterly dissent from and argue against the distinction of Civil and Ecclesiasticall lawes, and against the Synodical power of censures; holding that both the power of making Ecclesiastical lawes, and the corrective power to censure Transgressors, is proper to the Magistrate.
The Tutor which bred up the Erastian error, was Arminianism; for the Arminians finding their plants plucked up, and their poison antidoted by Classes and Synods, thereupon they began to cry down Synodical authority, and to appeal to the Magistrates power in things Ecclesiastical, hoping for more favour and less opposition that way. They will have Synods only to examine, dispute, discuss, to impose nothing under pain of Ecclesiastical censure, but to leave all men free, to do as they list. See their exam. cens. cap. 25. and Vindic. lib. 2. cap. 6. pag. 131. 133. And for the Magistrate they have endeavoured to make him head of the Church, as the Pope was; yea so far, that they are not ashamed to ascribe unto the Magistrate that Jurisdiction ⟨p. 164⟩over the Churches, Synods, and Ecclesiastical proceedings' which the Pope did formerly usurp: For which see Apollonius in his Jus Maj•statis circa sacra.