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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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I will here anticipate another objection, which is not moved by Mr. Hussey. It may be objected from 1 Cor. 11. 3. that the head of every man is Christ. I answer, 1. Some understand this of Christ as God, and as the Creator of man. And if it be said that the latter clause the head of Christ is God, is meant of Christ as Mediator, and not as God: yet Martyr tells us out of Chrysostom, that all these comparisons and subordinations in this Text, are not to be taken in one and the same sense. 2. I grant also that Christ may be called the head of every man, not only in respect of his God-head, but as Mediator, that is, the head of every man in the Church, not of every man in the World: for the Apostle speaks, de ordine divinitus sancito in Ecclesiae corpore mystico, as Mr. David Dickson (an Interpreter who hath taken very good pains in the Textual study of Scripture) saith upon the place. I shall clear it by the like forms of speech. Jer. 30 6. Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins? Luke 16. 16. The Kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth unto it. 1 Cor. 12. 7. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. Heb. 2. 9. Jesus did taste death for every man. Yet none of these places are meant of every man in the World. 3. Yea in some sense Christ, as Mediator, may be called the head of every man in the World, that is, in respect of dignity, excellency, glory, eminence of place, quia in hoc sexu ille supra omnes eminet, saith Gualther, or because no man hath parity or equality of honour with Christ: So Martyr and Hunnius. The English annotations say, that Christ is the Head of every man, in as much as he is the first begotten among many brethren. Which best agreeth with my second answer.
I will here anticipate another objection, which is not moved by Mr. Hussey. It may be objected from 1 Cor. 11. 3. that the head of every man is Christ. I answer, 1. Some understand this of Christ as God, and as the Creator of man. And if it be said that the latter clause the head of Christ is God, is meant of Christ as Mediator, and not as God: yet Martyr tells us out of Chrysostome, that all these comparisons and subordinations in this Text, are not to be taken in one and the same sence. 2. I grant also that Christ may be called the head of every man, not onely in respect of his God-head, but as Mediator, that is, the head of every man in the Church, not of every man in the World: for the Apostle speaks, de ordine divinitus sancito in Ecclesiae corpore mystico, as Mr. David Dicksone (an Interpreter who hath taken very good pains in the Textuall study of Scripture) saith upon the place. I shall clear it by the like formes of speech.