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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
Book 3 › Chapter 2: Whether Matth. 18. 15, 16, 17. prove Excommunication.
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The Erastians and we do both agree in this, that Christ here hath a respect to the Jewish Government. Now the trespasses for which men were excommunicate by the Jewish Sanhedrin were scandalous trespasses, such as the despising of any of the precepts of the law of Moses, or Statutes of the Scribes: The doing of servile work upon Easter Eve: The mentioning of the Name of God rashly, or by a vain oath: The inducing of others to profane the Name of God, or to eat holy things without the holy place; and the like; More of this elsewhere, in the 24 causes of the Jewish Excommunication. 6. Mr Prynne expoundeth this Text in Matthew by 1 Cor. 5. 9, 10, 11, 12. but there the Apostle intends the purging of the Church from scandals, whether those scandals have any private injury in them or not. Instance in Idolatry and drunkenness, there mentioned. 7. I can also (without yielding the least advantage to the Erastian cause) admit and suppose that which is so much pressed both by Erastus, Mr Prynne, and others, viz. that these words, If thy brother trespass against thee, are spoken of a personal injury between man and man, Though I do not grant the thing, yet I am content, even upon their own supposition, to argue from this Text. And first, it may be answered with Aegi dius de Coninck. de actib. supernat. Disp. 28. Dub. 8. that Christ doth not speak of the case of personal injuries, as if he meant to restrict unto such cases the order of proceeding for gaining of the offenders soul from sin; hbut only for examples sake he brought such kind of sin, of which it might have been most doubted, whether in the reproof thereof this order be to be kept, and in which it can be most hardly observed, in respect of the innate desire of revenge in many. 2. Let our opposites themselves say, whether we ought not in conscience and duty, endeavour the gaining of an offending brothers soul, when we see him commit a trespass against God, which is no personal injury to our selves, as well as when the trespass is a personal injury. 3.
The Erastians and we doe both agree in this, that Christ here hath a respect to the Jewish Government. Now the trespasses for which men were excommunicate by the Jewish Sanhedrin were scandalous trespasses, such as the despising of any of the precepts of the law of Moses, or Statutes of the Scribes: The doing of servile worke upon Easter Eve: The mentioning of the Name of God rashly, or by a vaine oath: The inducing of others to prophane the Name of God, or to eate holy things without the holy place; and the like; More of this elsewhere, in the 24 causes of the Jewish Excommunication. 6. Mr Prynne expoundeth this Text in Matthew by