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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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The third cause which helped forward the deadly malady and consumption of Erastianism; was the grief, shame, confusion and loss which it sustained by the learning and labour of some Divines in the Reformed Churches, who had to very good purpose ⟨p. 167⟩taken pains to discover to the world the curled nature of that unlucky brood, being of the seed of the Amalekites, which ought not to enter into the Congregation of the Lord. The Divines who have more especially and particularly appeared against it, are (to my observation) these. Beza de Excommunicatione, & Presbyterio contra Erastum: Which was not printed till Erastus his Reply unto it was first printed. Whereunto as Beza in a large Preface layeth the foundation of a duply, so he had prepared and perfected his duply, had he not been hindered by the great troubles of Geneva, at that time besieged by the Duke of Savoy; Beza himself being also at that time 71. years old; howbeit for all this, he did not lay aside the resolution and thought of that duply, if he should have opportunity, and see it requisite or called for; all which is manifest from that preface. Next to him, I reckon Zacharias Ursinus a most solid judicious Divine, who did (as I touched before) exhibit to the Prince Elector Palatine Frederick the third, Judicium de disciplina Ecclesiastica & Excommunication (which you may find in the end of his third Tome) wherein he doth soundly confute the Theses of Erastus, neither hath any reply been made thereto, that ever I could learn of • Also in his Catechetical explications, Quaest, 85. He plainly disputes against the Erastian principles. The more strange it is that Mr. Hussey in his Epistle to the Parliament would make them believe that Ursinus is his, and not ours, in this controversy.
The third cause which helped forward the deadly malady and consumption of Erastianisme; was the grief, shame, confusion and losse which it sustained by the learning and labour of some Divines in the Reformed Churches, who had to very good purpose ⟨p. 167⟩taken pains to discover to the world the curled nature of that unlucky brood, being of the seed of the Amalekites, which ought not to enter into the Congregation of the Lord. The Divines who have more especially and particularly appeared against it, are (to my observation) these. Beza de Excommunicatione, & Presbyterio contra Erastum: Which was not printed till Erastus his Reply unto it was first printed. Whereunto as Beza in a large Preface layeth the foundation of a duply, so he had prepared and perfected his duply, had he not been hindred by the great troubls of Geneva, at that time besieged by the Duke of Savoy; Beza himself being also at that time 71. yeares old; howbeit for all this, he did not lay aside the resolution and thought of that duply, if he should have opportunity, and see it requisite or calld for; all which is manifest from that preface. Next to him, I reckon Zacharias Ursinus a most solid judicious Divine, who did (as I touched before) exhibite to the Prince Elector Palatine Frederick the third, Iudicium de disciplina Ecclesiastica & Excommunicatione (which you may find in the end of his third Tome) wherein he doth soundly confute the Theses of Erastus, neither hath any reply been made thereto, that ever I could learn of Also in his Catecheticall explications, Quaest, 85. He plainly disputes against the Erastian principles. The more strange it is that Mr. Hussey in his Epistle to the Parliament would make them beleeve that Ursinus is his, and not ours, in this controversie.