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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
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.
And in so doing, whiles he avoided the scandal of the Jews, he gave a greater scandal to the Gentiles in compelling them by the authority of his example to Judaize, and to think the ceremonial Law necessary.
And in so doing, whiles he avoided the scandall of the Jewes, he gave a greater scandall to the Gentiles in compelling them by the authority of his example to Judaize, and to thinke the ceremoniall Law necessary.
Thirdly, The foresaid place Act. 10. is to be understood of such fellowship as was not merely civill, but religious and sacred: as may appear, 1. by the exposition formerly given of these words, God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. 2. by the invitation of the men that were sent from Cornelius to Peter who did not call him to civill but to sacred fellowship Act. 10. 22. And they said, Cornelius the Centurion, a just man and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the Nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy Angel, to send for thee into his house and to hear words of thee. 3. Peter calls in the men and lodgeth them; that being a civill fellowship, he doth it freely, v. 23. but when he comes to Cornelius and those that were assembled with him, to hear words from Peter, here was the case of conscience, and here Peter beginneth to apologize ⟨p. 374⟩v. 28. ye knew how that it is an unlawful thing, &c. The Syriac hath it thus, ye know that it is not lawful for a man that is a Jew to join himself unto a man that is a stranger, who is not a son of his generation: as it were intimating a religious and Church fellowship. 4. That which gave offence to them of the circumcision at Jerusalem. was, that they heard Peter had so gone in to men uncircumcised, that they had also received the word of God from him Act. 11. 1. 3. And as soon as they were satisfied in that point, that God had given unto the Gentiles repentance unto life vers. 18. they held their Peace, and made no further scruple concerning eating with them.