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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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Thirdly, That Synod did exercise and make use of a threefold Ecclesiastical power, for remedy of a three-fold Ecclesiastical disease. 1. They purge out the leaven of false doctrine and heresy, by deciding and determining that great controversy, whether Circumcision and the keeping of the Ceremonial Law of Moses were necessary to salvation. They hold forth and declare to the Churches the negative; And this they do by the dogmatic power. 2. There was a great scandal, taken by the believing Jews (then not fully instructed and persuaded concerning the abrogation of the Ceremonial Law by the death of Christ) who were so far stumbled and offended at the believing ⟨p. 304⟩Gentiles for their eating of things sacrificed to Idols, and of blood, and things strangled, that they could not freely nor contentedly converse, company, and eat together with the Gentiles. For remedy whereof, the Synod doth require (in regard of the law of love, edification, peace, and avoiding of scandal) that the Gentiles should abstain from those things, as also from fornication, (which for what cause it is added, I do not now dispute) And this they do by the Diataktik power. 3. There was a [Greek or Hebrew], a schism, dissension, and rent made in the Church by the Judaizing Teachers, vers. 2. Who clothed themselves with a pretended authority and warrant from the Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem, and thereupon got the more following, and drew away the more disciples after them. For remedy hereof, the Synod stigmatizeth and brandeth those men, by declaring them to be liars, troublers of the Church, and subverters of souls, vers. 24. And this they do by the Critic power, or authority of censures.
Thirdly, That Synod did exercise and make use of a threefold Ecclesiastical power, for remedy of a three-fold Ecclesiastical disease. 1. They purge out the leven of false doctrine and heresie, by deciding and determining that great controversie, whether Circumcision and the keeping of the Ceremoniall Law of Moses were neeessary to salvation. They hold forth and declare to the Churches the negative; And this they do by the dogmatik power. 2. There was a great scandal, taken by the beleeving Jewes (then not fully instructed and perswaded concerning the abrogation of the Ceremoniall Law by the death of Christ) who were so far stumbled and offended at the beleeving ⟨p. 304⟩Gentiles for their eating of things sacrificed to Idls, and of blood, and things strangled, that they could not freely nor contentedly converse, company, and eate together with the Gentiles. For remedy whereof, the Synod doth require (in regard of the law of love, edification, peace, and avoyding of scandall) that the Gentiles should abstain from those things, as also from fornication, (which for what cause it is added, I do not now dispute) And this they do by the Diataktik power. 3. There was a , a schisme, dissention, and rent made in the Church by the Judaizing Teachers, vers. 2. Who clothed themselves with a pretended authority and warrant from the Apostles and Elders at Hierusalem, and thereupon got the more following, and drew away the more disciples after them. For remedy hereof, the Synod stigmatizeth and brandeth those men, by declaring them to be lyars, troublers of the Church, and subverters of souls, vers. 24. And this they do by the Critick power, or authority of censures.