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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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Eleventhly, [Greek or Hebrew] the Governments mentioned 1 Cor. 12. 28. are not Civil but Ecclesiastical Governments, as I have largely proved Chap. 6. and shall not need here to repeat it; only observe what lBullinger saith on the place: whereunto add the Testimony of Hugo Grotius (whom I suppose our opposites do not look upon as an adversary) on Luke 12. 14. He acknowledgeth that in the Church of Corinth, censura morum was penes Presbyterium, the censure of mens manners, was in the power of the Presbytery. This Government the Church of Corinth had, a Christian Magistrate they had not.
Eleventhly, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Governments mentioned 1 Cor. 12. 28. are not Civil but Ecclesiastical Governments, as I have largely proved Chap. 6. and shall not need here to repeat it; onely observe what lBullinger saith on the place: whereunto add the Testimony of Hugo Grotius (whom I suppose our opposites do not look upon as an adversary) on Luke 12. 14. He acknowledgeth that in the Church of Corinth, censura morum was penes Presbyterium, the censure of mens manners, was in the power of the Presbytery. This Government the Church of Corinth had, a Christian Magistrate they had not.
- lAt Gubernatores vocavit Amb•osius qui spiritu ilibus retina•ulis docum•nto […] hominibus, quales sunt seniores, Pres•yteri, & disciplinae Christianae praesecti, morum censors.At Gubernatores vocavit Amb•osius qui spiritu ilibus retinaulis documnto hominibus, quales sunt seniores, Presyteri, & disciplinae Christianae praesecti, morum censores.