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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Christian parents, masters of Colleges, and the like, are Governors in the Church, that is, being within, not without the Church, yet as Parents or masters they are not Church-Governors. 2. I can also admit that the Christian Magistrate governeth the Church; and if this had been the concession, which is more then the other, it could not have helped him. For how doth the Magistrate govern the Church? not qua a Church, but qua a part of the CommonWealth, as learned Salmafiu• distinguisheth, Appar. ad lib. de primat. pag. 292. 300. For the Common-wealth is not in the Church, but the Church in the Common-wealth, according to that Rev, 2. The Church in Smyrna, the Church in Pergamus, the Church in Thyatira. And suppose all that are members of the Common-wealth to be also Church-members, yet in an universal spread of the Gospel, the Church is governed by the Magistrate as it is a Common-wealth, not as it is a Church. Every soul must be subject to the higher powers, Church-Officers, Church-members and all, but the [Greek or Hebrew] qua tale, and [Greek or Hebrew]: quo ad, is not any Ecclesiastical or spiritual, but a humane and civil relation. But whereas Mr▪ Hussey addeth that the Gospel is the Law by which Christ will judge all the world: ⟨p. 211⟩if all the world be under the Law of Christ, th•n the Kingdom of Christ must needs reach over all the World: his proofs are mere mistakes: he cites 2. Thess. 1. 7. 8. Christ shall come in slamming fire, to take vengeance on all them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: but in that place they that obey not the Gospel, are those disobedient persons to whom the Gospel was preached: He cites also Rom. 2. 16. Judge all the world according to my Gospel: but the Text saith not so; it saith, the secrets of men, not all the World. Wherefore as the Apostle there saith of the Law vers. 12. so say I of the Gospel, as many as have sinned without the Gospel, shall also perish without the Gospel; and as many as have sinned under the Gospel, shall be judged by the Gospel.
Christian parents, masters of Colledges, and the like, are Governours in the Church, that is, being within, not without the Church, yet as Parents or masters they are not Church-Governours. 2. I can also admit that the Christian Magistrate governeth the Church; and if this had been the concession, which is more then the other, it could not have helped him. For how doth the Magistrate govern the Church? not qua a Church, but qua a part of the CommonWealth, as learned Salmafiu distinguisheth, Appar. ad lib. de primat. pag. 292. 300. For the Common-wealth is not in the Church, but the Church in the Common-wealth, according to that Rev, 2. The Church in Smyrna, the Church in Pergamus, the Church in Thyatira. And suppose all that are members of the Common-wealth to be also Church-members, yet in an universall spread of the Gospel, the Church is governed by the Magistrate as it is a Common-wealth, not as it is a Church. Every soule must be subject to the higher powers, Church-Officers, Church-members and all, but the qua tale, and : quo ad, is not any Ecclesiastical or spiritual, but a humane and civil relation. But whereas Mr Hussey addeth that the Gospel is the Law by which Christ will judge all the world: