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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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CHAP. VII. Other Scriptural arguments to prove an Excommunication in the Jewish Church.
CHAP. VII. Other Scripturall arguments to prove an Excommunication in the Iewish Church.
That the separation from the Congregation, Ezra 10. 8. was Excommunication. Josephus explained in this particular. Of the devoting of a mans substance as holy to the Lord▪ which was joined with the Excommunication. What meant by the cursing Neh. 13. 25. That the [Greek or Hebrew] or separating mentioned Luke 6. 22. was Excommunication, or a segregation not from civil fellowship only, but from sacred or Church communion. The Ecclesiastical use of that word touched.
THat the separation from the Congregation, Ezra 10. 8. was Excommunication. Iosephus explained in this particular. Of the devoting of a mans substance as holy to the Lord▪ which was joyned with the Excommunication. What meant by the cursing Neh. 13. 25. That the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or separating mentioned