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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.
This fivefold restraint of Heathens from the Temple, from the Passover, from eating of an Offering, from bringing an Oblation unto the Lord, and generally from all Church fellowship, did lie even upon those Heathens who did cohabit and familiarly converse with the children of Israel, who are called proselyti domicilii: and no Heathen man was free of such restraint, except proselyti justitiae, who were circumcised and made members of the Jewish Church, and had the name of Jews.
This fivefold restraint of Heathens from the Temple, from the Passeover, from eating of an Offering, from bringing an Oblation unto the Lord, and generally from all Church fellowship, did lie even upon those Heathens who did cohabit and familiarly converse with the children of Israel, who are called proselyti domicilii: and no Heathen man was free of such restraint, except proselyti justitiae, who were circumcised and made members of the Jewish Church, and had the name of Jewes.
Finally, Let him be unto thee as an Heathen man, may have a Commentary from 1 Sam. 26. 19. where David curseth his enemies before the Lord, because they had made him as an Heathen man: they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go serve other Gods. He did not reckon his banishment, want of civill liberties, cutting off from the civill fellowship and company of the children of Israel, in comparison of that which was far worse to him, and a great deal heavier to be borne, namely, that he was rejected and repudiate ⟨p. 386⟩from spiritual fellowship with Gods people, from partaking in the holy Ordinances, from coming to the Sanctuary, from the Church privileges, that his persecution was materially and substantially an Excommunication, and qua Excommunication it was more grievous to him then qua persecution.
Finally, Let him be unto thee as an Heathen man, may have a Commentary from