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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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Fifthly, He argueth thus, That Office which Christ hath declared to be of God, and bounded and limited in his Gospel, that Office is held under Christ as Mediator: But the Civil Magistrate is so, Rom. 13. 4.
Answ. 1. His proposition is most false, and will never be proved. 2. If this argument hold good, then the Pagan Magistrate holds his office under Christ as Mediator (for of such Magistrates then in being, the Apostle meaneth, Rom. 13.) So that either he must recall what he saith here, or what he saith afterward, that the office of the Pagan Magistrate is sinful and unlawful. 3, By Mr. Husseys medium, one might prove that servants hold their office under Christ as Mediator, because he hath declared their office to be of God, and hath bounded and limited the same in his Gospel. Eph. 6. 5▪ 6, 7, 8.
Sixthly, He saith they be the same persons that are under Christ, and under the Magistrate, and further, Christs ends and the Kings ends are both one, 1 Tim. 2. 2. that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Now either the office of the Mediators Kingdom is superior, or inferior, or coordinate, in reference to the Magistrates office.
Sixthly, He saith they be the same persons that are under Christ, and under the Magistrate, and further, Christs ends and the Kings ends are both one,