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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.
4. If the Magistrate be supreme Head and Governor of the Church under Christ, then the Ministers of the Church are the Magistrates Ministers as well as Christs, and must act in the Magistrates name, and as subordinate to him; and the Magistrate shall be Christs Minister, and act in Christs Name.
4. If the Magistrate be supreme Head and Governour of the Church under Christ, then the Ministers of the Church are the Magistrates Ministers as well as Christs, and must act in the Magistrates name, and as subordinate to him; and the Magistrate shall be Christs Minister, and act in Christs Name.
The seventeeth Argument I draw from the institution of Excommunication by Christ, Matth. 18. 17. Tell it unto the Church: But if he neglect to hear the Church, Let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a Publican. In which Text 1. All is restricted to a brother, or a Church-member, and agreeth not to ⟨p. 295⟩him who is no Church-member. 2. His tre•pasle is here looked upon under the notion of scandal, and of that which is also like to destroy his own soul. 3. The scope is not civil, but spiritual, to gain or save his soul. 4. The proceedings are not without witnesses. 5. There is a public complaint made to the Church. 6. And that because he appears impenitent, after admonitions given privately, and before two or three. 7. The Church speaks and gives a: Judgement concerning him, which he is bound to obey. 8. If he obey not, then he is to be esteemed and held as a heathen man and a Publican. 9. And that for his not hearing the Church, which is a public scandal concerning the whole Church. 10. Being as as an Heathen and Publican, he is kept back from some ordinances. 11. He is bound on earth by Church-Officers. Whatsoever ye bind, &c. 12. He is also bound in Heaven. More of this place else-where. These hints will now serve. The Erastians deny, that either the case, or the court, or the censure there mentioned is Ecclesiastical or Spiritual. But I prove all the three.