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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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And so much of that Text Matth. 28. 18. Salmeron upon the place draws from it Christs dominion even in temporal things (as Mr. Hussey doth) and thence he deriveth the temporal power of the Pope as Christs Vicar over the Kings and Kingdoms of the World. So Suarez in tertiam partem Thomae disp. 48. sect. 2. Gamachaeus in tertiam partem Thomae, Quaest. 22. yet some of the Papists themselves are ashamed to defend Christs dominion in temporal things (except as God only) it appearing to them so far contrary to other Scriptures.
And so much of that Text Matth. 28. 18. Salmeron upon the place draws from it Christs dominion even in temporall things (as Mr. Hussey doth) and thence he deriveth the temporall power of the Pope as Christs Vicar over the Kings and Kingdoms of the World. So Suarez in tertiam partem Thomae disp. 48. sect. 2. Gamachaeus in tertiam partem Thomae, Quaest. 22. yet some of the Papists themselves are ashamed to defend Christs dominion in temporall things (except as God onely) it appearin to them so far contrary to other Scriptures.
Bellarmine himself lib. 5. de Pont. Rom. cap. 4. confesseth that Christ as he did not execute any Temporal dominion, so he neither had nor received such power and authority: thereupon he inferreth that the Pope whom he calleth Christs Vicar and Representee on earth, hath not any Temporal dominion directly, but indirectly, and in ordine ad spiritualia. I appeal also to Salmeron in another place where he speaks more soundly Tom. 4. part▪ 3. Tract. 4. pag. 413. he proves from John 18. 36. and Luke 12. 14. that Christ had not nor received not any temporal power, and thence inferreth, Cum ergo Christus hujusmodi potestatem non habuerit, nec Petro illam tradidit.