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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.
If any man transgress, by having trade or commerce with them, during that space of three days, it is lawful (though) to use the ware: but if any man trade with them upon their holiday, the things are forbidden to be used. It is unlawful also to send a gift to an Heathen man upon his holy day: unless it be known that […] […] n•t […] the worship of Idols, neither ser•eth them. But if some […] m•n upon his Holiday send a gift to an Israelite, let him not take it from him, […] it be suspected that h• will be offended. Nevertheless he shall not use it, until it be known that the Heathen man doth not worship Idols nor esteem them to be Gods. Observe 1. that the things mentioned in the first Section, though unlawful to the •ewes in their own Land, three days before the Heathenish […], yet they held them not unlawful in other Lands. 2. They held it lawful for a Jew to send a gift to an Heathen man, or to receive a gift from him, so that it were not upon the Heathenish festivity. 3. Yea in some cases it was permitted to a Jew to send a gift to an Heathen man, upon the very Heathen festivity, (to wit, if he knew that Heathen man to be no worshipper of Idols) as likewise to receive a gift from him (though upon the holy day) for avoiding of offence.
If any man transgresse, by having trade or commerce with them, during that space of three daies, it is lawfull (though) to use the ware: but if any man trade with them upon their holyday, the things are forbidden to be used. It is unlawfull also to send a gift to an Heathen man upon his holy day: unlesse it be known that 〈…〉 〈…〉 n•t 〈…〉 the worship of Idols, neither ser•eth them. But if som• 〈…〉 m•n upon his Holyday send a gift to an Israelite, let him not take it from him, 〈…〉 it be suspected that h• will be offended. Nevertheless he shall not use it, untill it be known that the Heathen man doth not worship Idols nor esteem them to be Gods. Observe 1. that the things mentioned in the first Section, though unlawfull to the ewes in their own Land, three daies before the Heathnish , yet they held them not unlawfull in other Lands. 2. They held it lawfll for a Jew to send a gift to an Heathen man, or to receive a gift from him, so that it were not upon the Heathenish festivity. 3. Yea in some cases it was permitted to a Jew to send a gift to an Heathen man, upon the very Heathen festivity, (to wit, if he knew that Heathen man to be no worshipper of Idols) as likewise to receive a gift from him (though upon the holy day) for avoyding of offence.