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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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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, 1 Tim. 2. 2. that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty. Now either the office of the Mediators Kingdom is superior, or inferior, or coordinate, in reference to the Magistrates office.
Answ. 1. Very often they are not the same persons that are under Christ, and under the Magistrate. For 1 Cor. 5. 11, 12. the Apostle distinguisheth those that were within, or those ⟨p. 215⟩that were called brethren, from those that were without, both were under the Magistrate, both were not under Christ; and now the Jews in diverse places are under the Christian Magistrate, not under Christ. 2. The •nd of […] kingly office, and the end of Magistracy are so different, that to say they are the same, i• to offer indignity and dishonour to Jesus Christ. Kings are indeed appointed, that we may live under them a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty: But herein he hath answered himself pag. 29. the civil Magistrate may require of the people, that they will attend upon the means, out of natural Principles, Deum esse & colendum. More of the ends of Magistracy I have spoken before, whether I remit him. The ends of Christs Kingly Office are quite another thing; namely, to destroy all our souls enemies, Satan, the flesh, the wicked world, death, to put all his enemies under his feet; to send out his officers and ministers for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, to govern his people by his Word and Spirit, and to keep them by the power of God through faith unto salvation. 3. The comparison between Christs Kingly office as Mediator, and the Magistrates office, is neither to be drawn from superiority and inferiority, nor co-ordination; for they are disparata, and differ toto genere.