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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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We must therefore understand that the Jews refused to have any fellowship with the impious and unjust Publicans, as with Church members, and this the Jews did because of their scandalous ungodliness and unrighteousness.
We must therefore understand that the Jewes refused to have any fellowship with the impious and unjust Publicans, as with Church members, and this the Jewes did because of their scandalous ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse.
Wherefore to be esteemed as a Publican was esteemed among the Jews, comprehendeth these three things. 1. To be esteemed as the worst of men, impious, abominable, execrable, infamous, and as it were publici odii victimae, for so were the Publicans esteemed among the Jews. Dr Buxtorf•lexic. Chald. Talm. & Rabbin. pag. 1065. tells us that where in Sanhedrin fol. 44. 2. it is said of a certain Publican, the Gloss expounds it thus, Of a certain wicked man. 2. Not to hold or keep with such a one, the religious Christian fellowship, which we keep with Church members; yea, and (for religious ends, and in spiritual respects, as was said before) not to keep with such a one, so much as that civill fellowship which we are permitted to keep with Pagans and unbelievers, with whom when bidden to a feast, we may go and eat together as the Apostle expressly resolveth, but with him that is called a brother when scandalous and obstinate, (and therefore justly made as a Publican) we may not so much as eat, as the same Apostle teacheth, wherein those are ever to be excepted, who are tied by natural relations to perform natural and humane duties to the party excommunicate and made as a Publican, as the wife to the husband, the children to their parents.
Wherefore to be esteemed as a Publican was esteemed among the Jewes, comprehendeth these three things. 1. To be esteemed as the worst of men, impious, abominable, execrable, infamous, and as it were publici odii victimae, for so were the Publicans esteemed among the Jewes. Dr Buxtorf•lexic. Chald. Talm. & Rabbin. pag. 1065. tels us that where in Sanhedrin fol. 44. 2. it is said of a certaine Publican, the Glosse expounds it thus, Of a certaine wicked man. 2. Not to hold or keep with such a one, the religious Christian fellowship, which we keep with Church members; yea, and (for religious ends, and in spirituall respects, as was said before) not to keep with such a one, so much as that civill fellowship which we are permitted to keep with Pagans and unbelievers, with whom when bidden to a feast, we may goe and eate together as the Apostle expresly resolveth, but with him that is called a brother when scandalous and obstinate, (and therefore justly made as a Publican) we may not so much as eate, as the same Apostle teacheth, wherein those are ever to be excepted, who are tied by naturall relations to performe naturall and humane duties to the party excommunicate and made as a Publican, as the wife to the husband, the children to their parents.