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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.
Hussey will make Pasor to say that [Greek or Hebrew] with a genitive doth never signify any more but praecedo, then he makes him to say both that which is manifestly false, and in so saying to contradict himself, for Pasor tells us also, the word signifieth praesum, and for that he cites 1 Tim. 3. 4. ⟨p. 271⟩where it is with a genitive. Sometime indeed with a genitive it may be turned praecedo, as Pasor saith, but he citeth only Tit. 3. 8. where it is not Genitivus personae (as 1 Thes. 5. but rei; and we may also read praestare, as A. Montanus to excel or be chief in good works, or to maintain, as our books have it.
Hussey will make Pasor to say that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with a genitive doth never signifie any more but praecedo, then he makes him to say both that which is manifestly false, and in so saying to contradict himself, for Pasor tells us also, the word signifieth praesum, and for that he cites 1 Tim. 3. 4. ⟨p. 271⟩where it is with a genitive. Sometime indeed with a genitive it may be turned praecedo, as Pasor saith, but he citeth onely Tit. 3. 8. where it is not Genitivus personae (as 1 Thes. 5. but rei; and we may also read praestare, as A. Montanus to excell or be chief in good works, or to maintain, as our books have it.
But furthermore I shall offer for answer to Mr. Hussey the observation of an excellent Grecian. It is