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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.
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.
One thing I must needs take notice of, that whereas he would prove here that Tell the Church, is nothing, but, tell the civill Court of Justice among the Jews, commonly called the Council saith he, or Sanhedrin, he doth hereby overthrow all that he hath been building for the Jewish Sanhedrin at that time, had not power to judge civill, nor criminal, and least of all Capital offences, but only causes Ecclesiastical: The Romans having taken from them their civill Government, and left them no Government nor Jurisdiction except in matters of Religion. I hope Master Prynne will not in this contradict iErastus. And if so, how shall his Gloss stand, that this Text is to be understood of civill injuries yea, and of these only, for remedy whereof he conceives that Christ sends his Disciples to the Jewish Sanhedrin? How sweetly do his Tenets agree together?
One thing I must needs take notice of, that whereas he would prove here that Tell the Church, is nothing, but, tell the civill Court of Justice among the Jewes, commonly called the Councell saith he, or Sanhedrin, he doth hereby overthrow all that he hath been building for the Jewish Sanhedrin at that time, had not power to judge civill, nor criminall, and least of all Capitall offences, but onely causes Ecclesiasticall: The Romans having taken from them their civill Government, and left them no Government nor Jurisdiction except in matters of Religion. I hope Master Prynne will not in this contradict iErastus. And if so, how shall his Glosse stand, that this Text is to be understood of civill injuries yea, and of these onely, for remedy whereof he conceives that Christ sends his Disciples to the Jewish Sanhedrin? How sweetly doe his Tenents agree together?
- iConsirm. Thesium lib. 2. cap. 2. Quis nescit illo tempore Judaeos sub Romanis vixisse, ac praesidem eorum p•rentibus omnibus jus dicere solitum suisse? Civilem potentiam ad se omnem f•rè per•raxerant, relicta potestate ipsis de rebus sacris judicandi, & secundum legis ceremonias vivendi. Idem lib. 3. cap. 1. In•erim tamen paebant Romanis: neque in aliis rebus potestatem servaverant integram, quàm in rebus ad religionem morésque patrios pertinentibus.