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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
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.
First of all nGrotius (otherwise no good friend to Church-Government, ⟨p. 320⟩being poisoned with the Arminian Principles, who have endeavoured to weaken extremely the authority of Classical and Synodical Assemblies, and to give a kind of Papal power to the Magistrate) yet in this particular he argueth strongly for us, and not against us.
- nAnnot. in Luc. 6. 22. Reperti sunt & qui Judicia ista Ecclesiae putarent inhibenda; quoties Christiana• potestates Deus concederet saeculo &c. At Christi leges multo plus exigunt, quam in commune civibus impe•ii alicujus praescribi solet, aut etiam potest, semper enim magna pars hominum [Greek or Hebrew]. Quare civils quidem leges suo funguntur officio, si graviora & societati maxim no•entia delicta coerceant: at quae contra dilectionis, contra mansuetudinis, contra patientiae leges pec•antur, extra communes leges sunt posita: non etiam extra eas leges▪quas se sectantibus Christus praescribit, & secundum quas▪ judicare debet ille selectus ex mundo coetus.Annot. in Luc. 6. 22. Reperti sunt & qui Judicia ista Ecclesiae putarent inhibenda; quoties Christiana• potestates Deus concederet saeculo &c. At Christi leges multo plus exigunt, quam in commune civibus impe•ii alicujus praescribi solet, aut etiam potest, semper enim magna pars hominum 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Quare civiles quidem leges suo funguntur officio, si graviora & societati maxime no•entia delicta coerceant: at quae contra dilectionis, contra mansuetudinis, contra patientiae leges pecantur, extra communes leges sunt posita: non etiam extra eas legesquas se sectantibus Christus praescribit, & secundum quas judicare debet ille selectus ex mundo coetus.