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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. III. A further demonstration that these words, Let him be to thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, are not meant of avoiding Civill, but Religious or Churchfellowship.
CHAP. III. A further demonstration that these words, Let him be to thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, are not meant of avoyding Civill, but Religious or Churchfellowship.
I Hope I have already made it to appear that to draw Excommunication from Matth. 18. is not to extract water out of flint, as Mr Prynne supposeth: but that it cometh as liquidè from the Text, as water out of the fountain. Wherein I am the more confirmed, because Mr Prynnes exposition of these words, Let him be to thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, can not stand, for he takes the sense to be no more but this, keep not any civill fellowship or company with such a one. Now that this can not be our Saviours meaning, I prove thus.
I Hope I have already made it to appeare that to draw Excommunication from Matth. 18. is not to extract water out of flint, as Mr Prynne supposeth: but that it commeth as liquidè from the Text, as water out of the fountaine. Wherein I am the more confirmed, because Mr Prynnes exposition of these words, Let him be to thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, can not stand, for he takes the sence to be no more but this, keepe not any civill fellowship or company with such a one. Now that this can not be our Saviours meaning, I prove thus.