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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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3. Object. I could never yet see said Mr. Coleman, how two coordinate governments exempt from Superiority and inferiority can be in one State.
Against this I instanced in the co-ordinate governments of a General and an Admiral, of a Master and a Father, of a Captain and a Master in one ship. Mr. Hussey finding he can not make good Mr. Colemans word, tells me pag. 7. that he meaneth two supreme co-ordinate Governments. Where first he loseth ground, and tacitly yieldeth that Church-Government and Civil Government, distinct each from other do well consist, as long as they are not supreme, but as two arms under one head: No inconsistency therefore of Congregational and Classical Elderships, and of Provincial Assemblies, with the subordinate Magistrates and civil Courts in Cities and Counties. Next we shall find also in Scripture two co-ordinate supreme Governments, for the civil and the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin of the Jews were both supreme and co-ordinate, and there was no appeal from the sentence of either: as is evident by that disjunctive Law, Deut. 17. 12. And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the Priest (that is to the Priests, as vers. 9.) or unto the Judge (that is, the Assembly or Court of Judges, as I have cleared else-where) even that man shall die. But I have also answered more fully this objection concerning co-ordination. Chap. 8.
Against this I instanced in the co-ordinate governments of a General and an Admiral, of a Master and a Father, of a Captain and a Master in one ship. Mr. Hussey finding he can not make good Mr. Colemans word, tells me pag. 7. that he meaneth two supreme co-ordinate Governments. Where first he loseth ground, and tacitely yeeldeth that Church-Government and Civil Government, distinct each from other do well consist, as long as they are not supreme, but as two armes under one head: No inconsistency therefore of Congregational and Classical Elderships, and of Provinciall Assemblies, with the subordinate Magistrates and civil Courts in Cities and Counties. Next we shall find also in Scripture two co-ordinate supreme Governments, for the civil and the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin of the Jewes were both supreme and co-ordinate, and there was no appeal from the sentence of either: as is evident by that disjunctive Law,