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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
Book 2 › Chapter 10: Some Objections m•de against Ecclesiastical Government a•d Discipline answered.
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.
CHAP. X. Some Objections m•de against Ecclesiastical Government a•d Discipline answered.
MR. Hussey in his Epistle to my self objecteth thus, What will your censure do? it will shame a few whores and knaves; a great matter to shame them the Law of nature shameth.
MR. Hussey in his Epistle to my selfe objecteth thus, What will your censure doe? it will shame a few whores and knaves; a great matter to shame them the Law of nature shameth.
All this in terminis might have been as justly objected against the Apostle Paul, when he wrote to the Corinthians to put away from among themselves the incestuous man. What will your censure do Paul? a great matter to shame one whom the law of nature shameth. The Lord save me from that Religion which will not shame Whores and Thieves, and all other whom the Law of Nature shameth, and that in a Church way (as well as civilly) if any such member fall into such impiety: yet this is not all. All Orthodox Writers that write of Church-censures, will tell him, that scandals either of Doctrine or life, either against the first or second Table, fall under Ecclesiastical cognizance and censure.
All this in terminis might have been as justly objected against the Apostle Paul, when he wrote to the Corinthians to put away from among themselves the incestuous man. What will your censure do Paul? a great matter to shame one whom the law of nature shameth. The Lord save me from that Religion which will not shame Whores and Theeves, and all other whom the Law of Nature shameth, and that in a Church way (as well as civilly) if any such member fall into such impiety: yet this is not all. All Orthodox Writers that write of Church-censures, will tell him, that scandalls either of Doctrine or life, either against the first or second Table, fall under Ecclesiastical cognizance and censure.