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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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Having now by the light of Scripture and other helps asserted a Church-government distinct from civill Magistracy, both in the Old and New Testament, the last part of my present undertaking shall be to vindicate the particular Ordinances of Excommunication and Suspension, called by the Schoolmen Excommunicatio major & minor. Of which also I have before spoken divers things occasionally; ⟨p. 538⟩for I have asserted an Excommunication and Suspension in the Jewish Church, Book 1. Chap. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. The nature, grounds, reasons, uses, and ends whereof, were not proper to the Old Testament, but such as concern the Christian Church. I have also brought arguments Book 2. Chap. 9, 10. which conclude not only Church-government, but Excommunication. And so much of my work is done: Nevertheless there is more to do. Mr Prynne first in his four grand Queries, and thereafter in his Vindication of the same, hath argued much, both against the Suspension from the Sacrament of a person not Excommunicated and wholly cast out of the Church, and against some of the most pregnant Scriptural proofs for Excommunication it self. In his Vindication he hath branched forth the controversy into ten points of difference. Two of these, viz. the fifth concerning suspension from the Sacrament of the Passover, and the ninth concerning casting out of the Synagogue, I have discussed before in the first Book. Where I have also examined other assertions of his concerning the Jewish Sanhedrin, Temple, confession of sin. The other points of difference not handled before, I am (as the Lord will help me) now to speak to.
HAving now by the light of Scripture and other helps asserted a Church-government distinct from civill Magistracy, both in the Old and New Testament, the last part of my present undertaking shall be to vindicate the particular Ordinances of Excommunication and Suspension, called by the Schoolmen Excommunicatio major & minor. Of which also I have before spoken divers things occasionally; ⟨p. 538⟩for I have asserted an Excommunication and Suspension in the Jewish Church, Booke 1. Chap. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. The nature, grounds, reasons, uses, and ends whereof, were not proper to the Old Testament, but such as concerne the Christian Church. I have also brought arguments Booke 2. Chap. 9, 10. which conclude not onely Church-government, but Excommunication. And so much of my worke is done: Neverthelesse there is more to doe. Mr Prynne first in his foure grand Quaeres, and thereafter in his Vindication of the same, hath argued much, both against the Suspension from the Sacrament of a person not Excommunicated and wholly cast out of the Church, and against some of the most pregnant Scripturall proofes for Excommunication it selfe. In his Vindication he hath branched forth the controversie into ten points of difference. Two of these, viz. the fifth concerning suspension from the Sacrament of the Passeover, and the ninth concerning casting out of the Synagogue, I have discussed before in the first Book. Where I have also examined other assertions of his concerning the Jewish Sanhedrin, Temple, confession of sinne. The other points of difference not handled before, I am (as the Lord will help me) now to speak to.