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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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& as for such of the Gentiles, as the Jews did observe to be good men whom they called ex piis è Gentibus mundi, such as Cornelius the Centurion, to whom the Jews themselves gave a good estimony of these he saith that though they were not formally admitted and received as Proselyte indwellers were wont to be (that formal reception of Proselyti Domicilii having ceased in those later times) yet he puts it out of doubt that the Jews were willing that such Gentiles should dwell among them.
& as for such of the Gentiles, as the Jewes did observe to be good men whom they called ex piis è Gentibus mundi, such as Cornelius the Centurion, to whom the Jewes themselves gave a good estimony of these he saith that though they were not formally admitted and received as Proselyte indwellers were wont to be (that formall reception of Proselyti Domicilii having ceased in those later times) yet he puts it out of doubt that the Jewes were willing that such Gentiles should dwell among them.
Add hereunto that which Gull. Vorstius annot. in Maimon. de fundam•legis cap. 5. Sect. 9. observeth ou• of Beth Joseph de Idololat. and out of aboda zara, that a Heathen man was permitted to be Phi•tian to a Jew, provided that he should not entice him to Idolatry: and that a Jew also was permitted to be Physician to a Gentile, for which purpose they alleged the example of Moses who (as their Tradition told them) did practice medicine in Egypt.
Adde hereunto that which Gul. Vorstius annot. in Maimon. de fundam•legis cap. 5. Sect. 9. observeth ou• of Beth Joseph de Idololat. and out of aboda zara, that a Heathen man was permitted to be Phi•tian to a Jew, provided that he should not entice him to Idolatry: and that a Jew also was permitted to be Physitian to a Gentile, for which purpose they alledged the example of Moses who (as their Tradition told them) did practice medicine in Egypt.