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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.
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that is to tame and mortify his lusts, and so far remover prohibens that he may be the better wrought upon by the Word. I conclude, Church-Government being instituted by Christ, and having a necessary use in the Church; the Erastians gain nothing by comparing it with the Word. Because it is not so necessary as the Word, Ergo, it is not necessary at all. Or because it is not efficacious in the same manner as the word is. Ergo it is not efficacious at all. The Apostle saith Christ sent me not to baptiz• but to preach the Gospel, 1 Cor. 1. 17. What if he had said Christ sent me not to rule but to preach the Gospel? Then had the Erastians triumphed. Yet this expression could not have proved that Church-government is not an Ordinance of Christ, more then that can prove that Baptism is not an Ordinance of Christ. A negative in the comparative, will not infer a negative in the positive.
that is to tame and mortifie his lusts, and so far removere prohibens that he may be the better wrought upon by the Word. I conclude, Church-Government being instituted by Christ, and having a necessary use in the Church; the Erastians gain nothing by comparing it with the Word. Because it is not so necessary as the Word, Ergo, it is not necessary at all. Or because it is not efficacious in the same manner as the word is. Ergo it is not efficacious at all. The Apostle saith Christ sent me not to baptiz• but to preach the Gospel, 1 Cor. 1. 17. What if he had said Christ sent me not to rule but to preach the Gospel? Then had the Erastians triumphed. Yet this expression could not have proved that Church-government is not an Ordinance of Christ, more then that can prove that Baptisme is not an Ordinance of Christ. A negative in the comparative, will not inferre a negative in the positive.
3. Object. I could never yet see said Mr. Coleman, how two coordinate governments exempt from Superiority and inferiority can be in one State.