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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. VIII. Of the power and privilege of the Magistrate in things and causes Ecclesiastical, what […] […] not, and what it is?
CHAP. VIII. Of the power and priviledge of the Magistrate in things and causes Ecclesiasticall, what 〈…〉 〈…〉 not, and what it is?
That no administration formally and properly Ecclesiastical, (and namely the dispensing of Church censures) doth belong unto the Magistrate▪ nor may (according to the Word of God be assumed and exercised by him, proved by six Arguments. That Christ hath not made the Magistrate head of the Church, to receive appeals from all Ecclesiastical Assembles. There are other sufficient remedies against abuses or Mal-administration in Church-Government Reasons against such appeals to the Magistrate. The Arguments to the contrary from the Examples of Jeren•y and of Paul, discussed. Of the collaterality and coordination of the Civill and Ecclesiastical powers. What is the power and right of the Magistrate in things and causes Ecclesiastical, cleared, first generally; next, more particularly by five distinctions. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] belong to the ⟨image 20⟩civill power, but non [Greek or Hebrew], 2. The Magistrate may imperare that which he may not elicere. 3. Distinguish the directive power from the coercive power. 4. The Magistrates power is cumulative not privative. 5. He may do in extraordinary cases that which he ought not to do ordinarily. A caution concerning the Arbitrary power of Magistrates in things Ecclesiastical.