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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. VI. Whether Jesus Christ, as Mediator, and Head of the Church, hath placed the Christian Magistrate, to hold and execute his office, under and for him as his Vicegerent? The Arguments for the affirmative discussed.
CHAP. VI. Whether Iesus Christ, as Mediator, and Head of the Church, hath placed the Christian Magistrate, to hold and execute his office, under and for him as his Vicegerent? The Arguments for the affirmative discussed.
The decision of this Question will do much, (yet not all) in the decision of the Erastian controversy. The question rightly stated. Ten Arguments for the affirmative discussed and answered. Where divers Scriptures are debated and cleared. How we are to understand that Christ is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. How all power in Heaven and in Earth is said to be given to him. That the Governments set in the Church, 1 Cor. 12. 28. are not civill Magistrates, fully proved, Ephes. 1. 21, 22, 23. and Colos. 2. 10. vindicated.
THe decision of this Question will doe much, (yet not all) in the decision of the Erastian controversie. The question rightly stated. Ten Arguments for the affirmative discussed and answered. Where divers Scriptures are debated and cleared. How we are to understand that Christ is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. How all power in Heaven and in Earth is said to be given to him. That the Governments set in the Church, 1 Cor. 12. 28. are not civill Magistrates, fully proved,