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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.
Si pro delictis, anathema quis efficiatur; Os, or are, vale, communio, mensa negatur.
And the Scripture forbidding to eat with such a one, or to have company with him, or to bid him God speed, will reach as far. Nevertheless there are divers excepted or reserved cases in which the performance of natural duties unto and keeping of civill company with an excommunicate person is allowed. The exception made from the rule is this:
And the Scripture forbidding to eate with such a one, or to have company with him, or to bid him God speed, will reach as farre. Neverthelesse there are divers excepted or reserved cases in which the performance of naturall duties unto and keeping of civill company with an excommunicate person is allowed. The exception made from the rule is this:
Haee anathema quidem faciunt, ne possit obesse: Utile, lex, humile, res ignorata, necesse.
Utile, as when a man seeketh payment of debt from an excommunicate person. Lex, because the law alloweth husband and wife to company together, though the one of them be excommunicate. Humile, because children may and ought to do the duties of children, and servants the duty of servants, and subjects the duty of subjects, and vassals the duty of vassals, and soldiers the duty of soldiers, in companying with submitting unto, honouring and obeying of their excommunicated Parents, Masters, Kings, Lords, Commanders. Rs ignorata, when he that companieth with an excommunicate person, doth not know that he is excommunicate. Necesse, as when a man passeth through the Land or is under the power of excommunicate persons, or some such way is drawn into a necessity of speaking and companying with them. All which is most agreeable to this expression, Let him be unto thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, and to the nature of Excommunication, which doth not break asunder natural or moral, but spiritual and ecclesiastical bonds. If it be asked why then are we forbidden to eat with an excommunicate person, or to bid him God