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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
Book 2 › Chapter 7: Arguments for the Negative of that Question formerly propounded.
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.
Some of the Jesuits (as forward as they are to defend the Temporal Power of the Pope as Christs Vicar on earth, yet) cannot shut their eyes against the light of this Text, who made me a Judge or a divider over you? But they are forced to acknowledge ythat Christ denies that he had any right or authority to be a civil Judge. For how can he who is authorized to be a Judge say, Who made me a Judge?
Some of the Jesuits (as forward as they are to defend the Temporal Power of the Pope as Christs Vicar on earth, yet) cannot shut their eies against the light of this Text, who made me a Judge or a divider over you? But they are forced to acknowledge ythat Christ denies that he had any right or authority to be a civil Judge. For how can he who is authorized to be a Judge say, Who made me a Judge?
- yGreg. de Valentia comment. Theol. Tom. 4. Disp. 1▪ Quaest. 22. Punct. 6. Homo, quis me constituit Judicem aut divisorem inter vos? Quasi diceret: Nemo plane, neque homo, & multo minus Deus. Si enim a Deo habuisset Dominium Jurisdictionis politicae, multo verius su set censtitutus Judex politicus, quam si eam Jurisdictionem habuisset ab homine. Et tamen negat omnino see fuisse talem Judicem constitutum. Unde per hoc quod addit, Quis me constituit Judicem? &c. Eum remisit ad alium qui haberet eam potestatem, qua ipse careret. See the like in Bellarmine de Pontif. lib. 5. cap. 4.Greg. de Valentia comment. Theol. Tom. 4. Disp. 1▪ Quaest. 22. Punct. 6. Homo, quis me constituit Judicem aut divisorem inter vos? Quasi diceret: Nemo plane, neque homo, & multo minus Deus. Si enim a Deo habuisset Dominium Jurisdictionis politicae, multo verius su sset censtitutus Judex politicus, quam si eam Jurisdictionem habuisset ab homine. Et tamen negat omnino se fuisse talem Judicem constitutum. Unde per hoc quod addit, Quis me constituit Judicem? &c. Eum remisit ad alium qui haberet eam potestatem, qua ipse careret. See the like in Bellarmine de Pontif. lib. 5. cap. 4.