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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.
Vera & salutaris gubernatio Ecclesiae Christi praecipuè in his sex Membris consistit. Primum, In vera & pura Doctrina, quam Deus Ecclesiae suae patefecit, tradidit, & doceri mandavit.1 Secundo, In legitime usu Sacramentorum. Tertio, In conservation Ministerii Evangelici & obedientiae erga Pastores Ecclesiarum; sicut Deus vult & postulat conservari Ministerium Evangelii, & servat ipse sua potentiâ & presentiâ. Quarto, In conservation honestae & pia Disciplinae retinendae per judicia Ecclesiastica, seu jurisdictionem Ecclesiasticam. Quinto, In conservandis studiis necessariae doctrinae & Scholis. Sexto, Ad haec opus est defensione corporali & facultatibus, ad personas, quae sunt in efficiis necessariis, alendas.
Vera & salutaris gubernatio Ecclesiae Christi praecipuè in his sex Membris consistit. PRimum, In vera & pura Doctrina, quam Deus Ecclesiae suae patefecit, tradidit, & doceri mandavit.1 Secundo, In legitime usu Sacramentorum. Tertio, In conservatione Ministerii Evangelici & obedientiae erga Pastores Ecclesiarum; sicut Deus vult & postulat conservari Ministerium Evangelii, & servat ipse sua potentiâ & presentiâ. Quarto, In conservatione honestae & pia Disciplinae retinendae per judicia Ecclesiastica, seu jurisdictionem Ecclesiasticam. Quinto, In conservandis studiis necessariae doctrinae & Scholis. Sexto, Ad haec opus est defensione corporali & facultatibus, ad personas, quae sunt in efficiis necessariis, alendas.
- 1Gubernatio Ecclesiae in quibus consistat.
The Irish Articles of Religion. Art. 58. Neither do we give unto him (the Supreme Magistrate) hereby the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the keys. And Art. 69. But particular and visible Churches (consisting of those who make profession of the Faith of Christ, and live under the outward means of Salvation) be many in number: wherein the more or less sincerely according to Christs Institution, the Word of God is taught, the Sacraments are administered, and the authority of the keys is used; the more or less pure are such Churches to be accounted.