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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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Thirdly, He offereth violence to Calvin, for sCalvin saith that these helps mentioned 1 Cor. 12. 28. were either an ancient gift and office unknown to us now, or it belongs to Deaconship, that is, the care of the poor. And this second (saith he) rather pleaseth me. Qua fide then, could Mr. Hussey affirm that Calvin thinks they were some Officers that the Church hath lost.
- sCalv. in 1 Cor. 12. 28. Aut certe tam munus quam domum olim suit, quod nobis hodie est incognitum: aut ad diaconiam pertinet, hoc est curam pauperum. Atque hoc secundum mihi magis arridet▪
Fourthly, Whereas he thinks helps, governments, to belong both to one thing, there was some such thing once foisted into the English Bibles: [Greek or Hebrew], was read thus, helps in Governments: but afterwards the Prelates themselves were ashamed of it, and so it was printed according to the Greek distinctly, helps, Governments. The Syriac addeth a copulative, and readeth thus, and helpers, and Governors, so ⟨p. 223⟩making them distinct officers in the Church. Neither is it any unusual thing in the Greek, to put together Nouns in the same case without any conjunction copulative, when the things themselves so expressed are most different, as Matth. 15, 19. Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Rom. 1. 29, 30. 31.