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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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On the other part, it was a principle among the Jews, that they ought not to converse familiarly with any of the Gentiles, except such as observe the seven precepts given to the Sons of Noah. Wherefore the Synod of the Apostles and Elders thought good that the believing Gentiles should so far condescend to the weakness of the Jews (not fully instructed concerning Christian liberty, and the abrogation of the old ceremonies) as to observe for a time that precept against eating blood, as well as the other precepts given to the Sons of Noah; to the intent that the Jews and Gentiles might Peaceably and familiarly cohabit and converse together: for though the Gentiles did not observe the other ordinances and ceremonies of the Jews: yet observing those seven precepts, they were free to converse familiarly with the Jews. Schindlerus in his Lexicon pentagl. pag. 298. land pag. 1530 seemeth to have had the same notion; for he saith the Apostles and Elders would not impose circumcision and the keeping of the Law of Moses, but they imposed some things not unlike to the precepts given to the Sons of Noah. I return to that distinction of the two sorts of Proselytes. The one had the name of Ger tzedek a Proselyte of righteousness, and Ger berith, a Proselyte of the Covenant. The other was called Ger toschav, a Proselyte indweller and Ger schagnar, a Proselyte of the Gate, qui intra portas, inter Judaeos scilicet habitabat, who dwelt within the Gates, to wit among the Jews saith Matthias Martinius in Lexic. philol. pag. 2922. This Proselyte indweller was not called nor esteemed as one of the Jews, being no Church Member, nor admitted to any religious or Church Communion with the Jews, but he was still esteemed and reckoned as one of the uncircumcised Gentiles. Yet the Jews did keep civill ⟨p. 377⟩company and fellowship with such a one, as with a neighbour and a inhabitant of the same City, or Land.
On the other part, it was a principle among the Jewes, that they ought not to converse familiarly with any of the Gentiles, except such as observe the seven precepts given to the Sonnes of Noah. Wherefore the Synod of the Apostles and Elders thought good that the beleiving Gentiles should so farre condescend to the weaknesse of the Jewes (not fully instructed concerning Christian liberty, and the abrogation of the old ceremonies) as to observe for a time that precept against eating blood, as well as the other precepts given to the Sonnes of Noah; to the intent that the Jewes and Gentiles might Peaceably and familiarly cohabite and converse together: for though the Gentiles did not observe the other ordinances and ceremonies of the Jewes: yet observing those seven precepts, they were free to converse familiarly with the Jewes. Schindlerus in his Lexicon pentagl. pag. 298. land pag. 1530 seemeth to have had the same notion; for he saith the Apostles and Elders would not impose circumcision and the keeping of the Law of Moses, but they imposed some things not unlike to the precepts given to the Sonnes of Noah. I returne to that distinction of the two sorts of Proselytes. The one had the name of Ger tzedek a Proselyte of righteousnesse, and Ger berith, a Proselyte of the Covenant. The other was called Ger toschav, a Prosclyte indweller and Ger schagnar, a Proselyte of the Gate, qui intra portas, inter Judaeos scilicet habitabat, who dwelt within the Gates, to wit among the Jewes saith Matthias Martinius in Lexic. philol. pag. 2922. This Proselyte indweller was not called nor esteemed as one of the Jewes, being no Church Member, nor admitted to any religious or Church Commnnion with the Jewes, but he was still esteemed and reckoned as one of the uncircumcised Gentiles. Yet the Iewes did keep civill