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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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Fifthly, what is that else but a corrective Jurisdiction, Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject, [Greek or Hebrew] He speaks of a rejecting of persons, not of things only; and of such a rejecting of persons, as cannot be understood only of that avoiding or rejecting, by which every private Christian ought to observe, and avoid, and not receive false Teachers, but of a public Ministerial or Consistorial rejecting of an Heretic, by cutting him off, or casting him out of the Church.
Fifthly, what is that else but a corrective Jurisdiction, Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, reject, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 He speaks of a rejecting of persons, not of things onely; and of such a rejecting of persons, as cannot be understood onely of that avoiding or rejecting, by which every private Christian ought to observe, and avoid, and not receive false Teachers, but of a publike Ministerial or Consistorial rejecting of an Heretick, by cutting him off, or casting him out of the Church.
It is a Canon de Judiciis Ecclesiasticis, saith Tossanus upon the the place. This the Greek will easily admit: for Stephanus in Thesauro linguae Gr. tells us that [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] is used for recuse, aversor, repudio; and citeth out of Plutarch [Greek or Hebrew], to repudiate or put away a wife. As here also we may read, A man that is an Heretic, after the first and second admonition, repudiate or put away; though the word reject doth also bear the same sense. And as the Greek will admit it, so I have these reasons to confirm it, which shall suffice for the present. (He that pleaseth, may read a large Discourse concerning the censure of Heretics, in Claudius Espencaeus upon this place.) First, The Apostles scope is not to hold forth the common duties of all Christians, except ex consequenti: but his primary intention all along in that Epistle, is to instruct Titus concerning the ordering and governing of the Church, Chap. 1. vers. 5. Secondly, there must be a first and second admonition, before the Heretic be thus rejected. This rejecting is not for his dangerous and false Doctrine, simply or by it self considered, but for his contumacy and incorrigibleness. But private Christians ought to observe by the judgement of private discretion, and ought in prudence and caution to avoid all familiar fellowship and conversation with a man that is an Heretic, though he hath not yet gotten a first and second admonition: