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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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3. Let him be unto thee as an Heathen, is as much as have no communion nor fellowship with him in the holy Assemblies nor in the Temple; for Heathens were not permitted to come into the Temple Ezek. 44. 7. 9. Act. 21. 28. whereupon Paul is accused for bringing Greeks into the Temple and so polluting that holy place Act. 21. 28. Heathens were excluded from Atrium Israelis, the Court of Israel, which was without the Court of the Priests. There was without the Court of Israel, Atrium Gentium, the Court of the Heathen, otherwise called Intermurale, because it lay between the Temple and the utter wall mentioned Ezek. 42. 20. Into this utmost Court or intermurale Heathen men were admitted to come and worship there, according to that 1 Kings. 8. 41. 2 Chro. 6. 32. They might not only come into the holy Land, but to the holy City, and not only to the holy City, but to the mountain of the house of the Lord, yea, not only to the mountain of the Temple, but within the utter Wall: yet into the Court of Israel which was properly the first or utter Court of the Temple, they were forbidden to ⟨p. 366⟩enter. He that would be further satisfied that these things were so, let him read Joseph. antiq. lib. 15. cap. 14. T•status in 1. Reg. 8. quaest. 21. Arias Montanus de saer. fabric. pag. 15. Azorius Instit. moral Tom. 1. lib. 6 Chap. 53. L'Empereur Annot. in Cod Middoth cap. 2. Sect. 3. Peradventure you will say, if it was thus, then an excommunicate person being esteemed as an Heathen, must not g•t leave to hear the word, nor at all to enter into the places of public Ass•molies where the word was Preached. Answ. I will not now debate that point. Others have debated it with the Anabaptists who hold that excommunicate persons ought not be admitted to the Hearing of the word. Luc. Osiand. Enchirid. contra Anab. c. 6. quest. 2. but however it doth not follow upon what I have said, that excommunicate persons must be wholly excluded from hearing of the word. First, because the places of our public worship have no Sacramental significancy or holiness as the Temple and Tabernacle had of old: therefore say the professors of Leiden there is not the like reason to exclude excommunicate persons wholly from our Temples, as there was excluding them from the Temple of Jerusalem. 2. because both Christ Jo. 10. 23. and the Apostles