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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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CHAP. XI. The necessity of a distinct Church-Government under Christian as well as under Heathen Magistrates.
Some when they could not deny but there was a Church-Government in the Primitive and Apostolic Churches, distinct from all civil Government, and Church censures distinct from all civil punishments; yet they have alleged (though no such thing was alleged of old, neither by Constantine and other Christian Emperors, nor by others in their behalf) that this was for want of Christian Magistrates, and that there is not the same reason for such a Church-Government or censures, where there is a Christian Magistracy. See Mr. Husseys plea, pag. 24. As likewise Mr. Prynne in his Diotrephes catechised. Master Colemans re-examination, pag. 16. calls for an instance where the State was Christian. For taking off this exception, I shall observe,
SOme when they could not denie but there was a Church-Government in the Primitive and Apostolick Churches, distinct from all civil Government, and Churchcensures distinct from all civil punishments; yet they have aledged (though no such thing was alledged of old, neither by Constantine and other Christian Emperors, nor by others in their behalf) that this was for want of Christian Magistrates, and that there is not the same reason for such a Church-Government or censures, where there is a Christian Magistracy. See Mr. Husseys plea, pag. 24. As likewise Mr. Prynne in his Diotrephes catechised. Master Colemans re-examination, pag. 16. calls for an instance where the State was Christian. For taking off this exception, I shall observe,