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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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yet neither could that help our opposites, for the government of the Christian Church, and the government of the Jewish Church were at that time separate and distinct, so that the Ecclesiastical Court, which should have judged of any scandal given by Paul (if at all he ought to have been censured) had been a Christian Synod, not a Jewish Sanhedrin. And so much of Appeals. Of which Question Triglandius, Revius, and Cabeljavius, have peculiarly and fully written. Three famous Academies also, of Leiden, Groening, and Utrecht, did give their public testimonies against appeals from Ecclesiastical to civil Courts. And the three Professors of Utrecht in their testimony do obtest all Christians that love truth and peace, to be cautious and wary of the Arminian poison lurking in the contrary Tenet. See Cabeljav. defensio potestatis Ecclesiasticae. pag. 60.
yet neither could that help our opposites, for the government of the Christian Church, and the government of the Jewish Church were at that time separate and distinct, so that the Ecclesiastical Court, which should have judged of any scandall given by Paul (if at all he ought to have been censured) had been a Christian Synod, not a Jewish Sanhedrin. And so much of Appeals. Of which Question Triglandius, Revius, and Cabeljavius, have peculiarly and fully written. Three famous Academies also, of Leyden, Groening, and Utrecht, did give their publike testimonies against appeals from Ecclesiastical to civil Courts. And the three Professors of Utrecht in their testimony do obtest all Christians that love truth and peace, to be cautious and wary of the Arminian poyson lurking in the contrary Tenent. See Cabeljav. defensio potestatis Ecclesiasticae. pag. 60.
It is further objected, That thus fixing a spiritual jurisdiction in Church-officers, we erect two collateral Powers in the Kingdom, the Civil and the Ecclesiastical, unless all Ecclesiastical Courts be subordinate to Magistracy, as to a certain head-ship.
It is further objected, That thus fixing a spirituall jurisdiction in Church-officers, we erect two collateral Powers in the Kingdom, the Civil and the Ecclesiastical, unlesse all Ecclesiastical Courts be subordinate to Magistracy, as to a certain head-ship.