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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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Finally, The Presbyterial Government hath no such liberty nor arbitrariness, as Civil or Military Government hath: there being in all civil or temporal affairs a great deal of latitude […] to those who manage the same, so that they command nor act nothing against the Word of God. But Presbyterial Government is tied up to the rules of Scripture, in all such particulars as are properly spiritual and proper to the Church; Though in other particular, occasional circumstances of times, places, accommodations, and the like, the same light of nature and reason guideth both Church and State; yet in things properly Spiritual and Ecclesiastical, there is not near so much latitude left to the Presbytery, as there is in civil affairs to the Magistrate.
Finally, The Presbyterial Government hath no such liberty nor arbitrarinesse, as Civil or Military Government hath: there being in all civil or temporal affairs a great deal of latitude 〈…〉 to those who manage the same, so that they command nor act nothing against the Word of God. But Presbyterial Government is tyed up to the rules of Scripture, in all such particulars as are properly spiritual and proper to the Church; Though in other particular, occasional circumstances of times, places, accommodations, and the like, the same light of nature and reason guideth both Church and State; yet in things properly Spiritual and Ecclesiastical, there is not near somuch latitude left to the Presbytery, as there is in civil affairs to the Magistrate.
And thus I have made good what I said, That Presbyterial Government is the most limited and least arbitrary Government of any other. All which Vindication and clearing of the Presbyterial Government, doth overthrow (as to this Point) Master Hussey's Observation, pag. 9. of the irregularity and arbitrariness of Church-government. And so much of my fourth Conc•ssion.
And thus I have made good what I said, That Presbyterial Government is the most limited and least arbitrary Government of any other. All which Vindication and clearing of the Presbyterial Government, doth overthrow (as to this Point) Master Hussey's Observation, pag. 9. of the irregularity and arbitrarinesse of Church-government. And so much of my fourth Concssion.