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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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Testimonies taken out of the Harmony of the Confessions of the Faith of the […] Churches, Reprinted at London 1643.
Testimonies taken out of the Harmony of the Confessions of the Faith of the 〈…〉 Churches, R•printed at London 1643.
Pag. 238. Out of the confession of Helvetia. Furthermore, there is another power of duty, or ministerial power limited out by him, who hath full and absolute power and authority. And this is more like a Ministry then Dominion. For we see that ⟨p. 331⟩some master doth give unto the steward of his house authority and power over his House, and for that cause delivereth him his keys, that he may admit or exclude such as his master will have admitted or excluded. According to this power, doth the Minister by his office, that which the Lord hath commanded him to do, and the Lord doth ratify and confirm that which he doth, and will have the deeds of his ministers to be acknowledged and esteemed as his own deeds, unto which end are those speeches in the Gospel: I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom 1of heaven, and whatsoever thou bindest or loosest in earth, shall be bound and loosed in heaven. Again, whose sins soever 2ye remit, they shall be remitted; and whose sins soever ye retain, they shall be retained. But if the minister deal not in all things as his Lord hath commanded him: but pass the limits and bounds of Faith, then the Lord doth make void that which he doth. Wherefore the Ecclesiastical power of the Ministers of the Church, is that function whereby they do indeed govern the Church of God, but yet so as they do all things in the Church as he hath prescribed in his Word; which thing being so done, the faithful do esteem them as done of the Lord himself.