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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.
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.
Fourthly, Whereas he thinks helps, governments, to belong both to one thing, there was some such thing once foisted into the English Bibles: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, was read thus, helps in Governments: but afterwards the Prelats themselves were ashamed of it, and so it was printed according to the Greek distinctly, helps, Govirnments. The Syriack 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.