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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.
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The fifth Argument I take from John 18. 36. My Kingdom is not of this World. The great jealousy and fear which both Herod and Pilate had of Christ; was, that they understood he was a King. Christ clears himself in this point, his Kingdom was such as they needed not be afraid of, for though it be in the World, it is not of the World; though it be here, it is not from hence, it is heterogeneous to Temporal monarchy and civil Government. Mr. Hussey pag. 24. tells us, he knows not how those Governments that should be executed by Church-Officers▪ should savour less of the World then the civil Government. For this I remit him to those many and great differences, which I have showed between the civil and the Ecclesiastical Power. In the mean while my argument stands in force; For if all civil Government were put in Christs hand as he is Mediator, and he to depute and substitute others whom he will under him; then what is there in that answer of his to Pilate, which could convincingly answer those mistakes and misapprehensions of the nature of his Kingdom. That which is now taught by Master Hussey, is the very thing which Herod and Pilate were afraid of: but Christ denieth that which they were afraid of: and vers. 36. is an answer to the Question asked, vers. 33. Art thou the King of the Jews? My Kingdom is not of this World, saith he. To the same sense (as Grotius upon the place noteth out of Eusebius) Christs kinsmen when they were asked concerning his Kingdom, did answer to Domitian, ⟨p. 243⟩zthat his Kingdom was not worldly; but heavenly.
The fifth Argument I take from Iohn 18. 36. My Kingdom is not of this World. The great jealousie and fear which both Herod and Pilate had of Christ; was, that they understood he was a King. Christ clears himself in this point, his Kingdom was such as they needed not be afraid of, for though it be in the World, it is not of the World; though it be here, it is not from hence, it is heterogeneous to Temporal monarchy and civil Government. Mr. Hussey pag. 24. tells us, he knows not how those Governments that should be executed by Church-Officers▪ should savour lesse of the World then the civil Government. For this I remit him to those many and great differences, which I have shewed between the civil and the Ecclesiastical Power. In the mean while my argument stands in force; For if all civil Government were put in Christs hand as he is Mediator, and he to depute and substitute others whom he will under him; then what is there in that answer of his to Pilate, which could convincingly answer those mistakes and misapprehensions of the nature of his Kingdom. That which is now taught by Master Hussey, is the very thing which Herod and Pilate were afraid of: but Christ denyeth that which they were afraid of: and vers. 36. is an answer to the Question asked, vers. 33. Art thou the King of the Jews? My Kingdom is not of this World, saith he. To the same sence (as Grotius upon the place noteth out of Eusebius) Christs kinsmen when they were asked concerning his Kingdome, did answer to Domitian,