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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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I conclude with the Dutch Annotations upon Tit. 3. 10. reject. i. e. Have no communion with him. Let him go without disputing any further with him, and casting the holy things before such dogs. Matth. 7. 6. Let him not remain in the outward communion of the Church.
The sixth Argument I draw from 1 Cor. 5. 12. Do not ye judge them that are within? Vers. 13. Therefore put away from among your selves that wicked person. 2 Cor. 2. 6. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment (or censure.) which was inflicted of many. Here is an Ecclesiastical judging, not by the judgement of private Christian discretion only (for so they judged those ⟨p. 278⟩also that were without) but an authoritative corrective Judgement, by which a scandalous brother, a rotten member, like to infect other members, is put away from among the people of God. And this Judgement was made, sentence given, and censure inflicted [Greek or Hebrew], by many, that is not by all, but by the Elders of that Church saith Walaeus, Tom. 1. pag. 468, or you may read by the chiefest; So Piscator and Heinsius upon the place. The sense is all one, as if the Apostle had said [Greek or Hebrew], by them that have the rule over you. Now what will you make of judging, putting away, and censuring, being acts neither of a civil power, nor put forth upon any except Churchmembers, if you make it not a corrective Church-government?
The sixth Argument I draw from 1 Cor. 5. 12. Do not ye judge them that are within? Vers. 13. Therefore put away from among your selves that wicked person.