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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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CHAP. XII. Fourteen arguments to prove that scandalous and presumptuous offenders against the moral Law, (though circumcised, and not being legally unclean) were excluded from the Passover.
CHAP. XII. Fourteen arguments to prove that scandalous and presumptuous offenders against the morall Law, (though circumcised, and not being legally uncleane) were excluded from the Passeover.
Known presumptuous and obstinate sinners, were cut off from among their people, therefore not admitted to the Passover. The Jews themselves held that moral, as well as ceremonial uncleanness did render them incapable of eating the Passover. Who were esteemed Heretical or apostate Israelites? Who Epicurean Israelites? That these and such like were not acknowledged to be in the communion of the Church of Israel, nor was it allowed to speak or converse with them, much less that they should eat the Passover. Grotius his argument, there was an excommunication for ceremonial uncleanness, therefore much more for moral uncleanness. What God did teach his people by the purging out of leaven. If the show-bread might not be given to Davids men, unless they had for some space before abstained from their wives, much less might known adulterers be admitted to the Passover. Ezech. 2•. 26. discussed against Mr. Coleman. The original words explained. Profane Church members have the name of Heathens, and strangers. The qualifications of Proselytes, without which they were not admitted to Circumcision and the Passover. That course was taken Ezra 10. that none defiled ⟨image 17⟩with unlawful marriages might eat the Passover. By Erastus his principles the most scandalous conversation was not so hateful to God as legal uncleanness. The Law of confessing sin,