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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.
I shall conclude my answers to the present Objection, with the Testimony of learned dSalmasius, who hath so overthrown the Papal and Prelatical Government from Scripture and antiquity, that he hath withal preserved, yea strengthened the distinction of civil Government and Church-government, and holdeth that Church-censures and civil punishments do very well consist and sweetly agree together.
I shall conclude my answers to the present Objection, with the Testimony of learned dSalmasius, who hath so overthrown the Papal and Prelatical Government from Scripture and antiquity, that he hath withall preserved, yea strengthened the distinction of civil Government and Church-government, and holdeth that Church-censures and civil punishments do very well consist and sweetly agree together.
- dApparat. ad lib. de Primatu pag. 282, 283. •lebs autem ipsa quam curan• Pastores, quantum a•tines ad animaecuram, Pastoribus suis subdita est. Si corporis ratio aga•ur, summum in illud Imperium habent Principes ac Supremi Magistratus. Delicta igitur hominum dupliciter puniumur, aut in anima sola, aut in corpore. Poenae quae corporis necem aut noxam inferunt, aut bonorum amissionem, a Magistratu civili infliguntur: Quae vero animarum castigationem & emendationem spectant, per Ministrum Ecclesiae imponuntur. Summa earum poenarum excommunicatio est. Et in•ra. Idem peccatum in eodem homine ali•er vindicat Magistratus civilis, aliter punit Minister Ecclesiae.
I have now done with the negative part of this present Controversy, what the power of the Magistrate in Ecclesiasticis is not. I proceed to the positive part, what it is. To this I wll speak first more generally, then more particularly.