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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
Book 3 › Chapter 5: That Tell it to the Church hath more in it, then, Tell it unto a greater number.
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.
CHAP. V. That Tell it to the Church hath more in it, then, Tell it unto a greater number.
There is yet another interpretation of these words invented to elude the argument for Ecclesiastical government and censures from Mat. 18. Tell it unto the Church, that is, if the offending brother will neither hearken to private admonition, nor to admonition before two or three witnesses, then tell it unto many or unto a greater company. This calls to mind uDr Sutcliffes gloss upon the word Presbytery, 1 Tim. 4. 14. that it signifieth Presbyters or Ministers non juris vinculo, sed utcunque collectos, as if the occasional meeting of some Presbyters in Westminster Hall, or upon the Exchange, or in a journey, or at a burial, were a Presbytery with power to lay on hands.
THere is yet another interpretation of these words invented to elude the argument for Ecclesiasticall government and censures from Mat. 18. Tell it unto the Church, that is, if the offending brother will neither hearken to private admonition, nor to admonition before two or three witnesses, then tell it unto many or unto a greater company. This cals to mind uDr Sutcliffes glosse upon the word Presbytery, 1 Tim. 4. 14. that it signifieth Presbyters or Ministers non juris vinculo, sed utcunque collectos, as if the occasionall meeting of some Presbyters in Westminster Hall, or upon the Exchange, or in a journey, or at a buriall, were a Presbytery with power to lay on hands.