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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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4. Object. Ministers have other work to do, and such as will take up the whole man. To this Argument (saith Mr. Hussey pag. 8.) Mr. Gilespie maketh no answer at all, though Saint Paul useth the very self same Argument to discharge the Preachers from oversight of the poor. Act. 6. 2. God forbid we should leave the care of the word of God, and serve at Tables. It will not be unseasonable to mind both him and Mr. Prynne that the canonized names by them used Stylo Romano, Saint Paul, Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, &c. ought to be laid aside, except they will use it of all Saints, and why not as well Saint Moses, and Saint Aaron (whom the Psalmist calls the Saint of the Lord?) or why not Saint Aquila, Saint Apollos, Saint Epaphras, &c. Methinks men professing Reformation ought not to satisfy themselves in using this form of speech, only of such as have been canoniz•dat Rome, and enrolled Saints in the Popes Calendar. And as strange it is that Mr. Hussey makes Paul to act in the business, Act. 6. before he was either Saint or Apostle. Now to the Argument. I did answer at first (though Mr. Hussey is pleased not to take notice of it) pag. 36. that where Mr. Coleman objected, Ministers have other work to do, he might as well have added, that when Ministers have done that other work, and all that ever they can, yet without the power of Church-government, they shall not keep themselves, nor the Ordinances from pollution: that is, Church-Government is a part of their work, and a necessary part, which hath been proved: I thought it enough to touch an answer where an objection was but touched: another objection in that very place being more insisted on (and with more colour of reason) concerning the fear of an ambitious ensnarement.
4. Object. Ministers have other work to do, and such as will take up the whole man. To this Argument (saith Mr. Hussey pag. 8.) Mr. Gilespie maketh no answer at all, though Saint Paul useth the very self same Argument to discharge the Preachers from oversight of the poor. Act. 6. 2. God forbid we should leave the care of the word of God, and serve at Tables. It will not be unseasonable to mind both him and Mr. Prynne that the canonized names by them used Stylo Romano, Saint Paul, Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, &c. ought to be laid aside, except they will use it of all Saints, and why not as well Saint Moses, and Saint Aarn (whom the Psalmist calls the Saint of the Lord?) or why not Saint Aquila, Saint Apollos, Saint Epaphras, &c. Methinks men professing Reformation ought not to satisfie themselves in using this forme of speech, onely of such as have been canonizdat Rome, and inrolled Saints in the Popes Calender. And as strange it is that Mr. Hussey makes Paul to act in the businesse,