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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.
Take for instance this also. If it be a case deserving deposition or degradation: In such a case saith learned Salmasius appar. ad lib. de primatu pag. 298. the Prince or Magistrate cannot take from a minister that power which was given him in ordination with imposition of hands, for he cannot take away that which he cannot give. But if a Prince would have a minister for his offence• to be deprived of his ministerial power, he must take care that it be done by the ministers themselves; qui Judices ⟨p. 253⟩veri ipsius sunt, & auferre soli possunt quod per ordinationem dederunt. Who are his true Judges, and they only can take away what by ordination they have given. Thus Salmasius.
Take for instance this also. If it be a case deserving deposition or degradation: In such a case saith learned Salmasius appar. ad lib. de primatu pag. 298. the Prince or Magistrate cannot take from a minister that power which was given him in ordination with imposition of hands, for he cannot take away that which he cannot give. But if a Prince would have a minister for his offence• to be deprived of his ministeriall power, he must take care that it be done by the ministers themselves; qui Judices ⟨p. 253⟩veri ipsius sunt, & auferre soli possunt quod per ordinationem dederunt. Who are his true Judges, and they onely can take away what by ordination they have given. Thus Salmasius.
2. And further, if Presbyteries or Synods exceed the bounds of Ecclesiastical power, and go without the Sphere of their own activity, interposing and judging in a civil cause which concerneth any mans life or estate, The Magistrate may reverse and make null whatsoever they do in that kind, and punish themselves for such abuse of their power; As Solomon punished Abiathar, and banished him to Anathoth, he being guilty of high treason: