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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.
And that which is said of the Elders, Deut. 19. 12. Josh. 20. •. is said of the Congregation or Church, Num. 35. 24. Jos. 20. 6. So Exod. 12. 3. compared with vers. 21. The Septuagints also render Kahal by [Greek or Hebrew] Prov. 26. 26. It was not therefore to any assembly, but to an assembly of rulers, that causes were brought in the old Testament. If we turn to the Heathen Grecians, among them [Greek or Hebrew] had a power of jurisdiction to judge and determine causes, as is manifest from Acts 19. 38. 39. There [Greek or Hebrew] was of two sorts, as Suidas, Budaeus, Stephanus, and others have observed. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], a lawful set fixed assembly, which met at ordinary diets (which is meant in that place of the Acts last cited) It was also called [Greek or Hebrew] because of the jurisdiction and ruling power which was seated in it. Wherein I am ⟨p. 403⟩confirmed by this passage of Aristotle polit. lib. 3. cap. 11. [Greek or Hebrew]. for the assembly, saith he, hath the government or arbitrement of all such things; He is speaking of the choosing of Magistrates, and of craving an account of their administration. 2. [Greek or Hebrew] which was indicted and called pro re nata, upon some urgent extraordinary cause, and it was concio magnatum s•ve optimatum, in which the people were not present, as in the other. It was therefore rightly noted by Passor that Demosthenes useth the word [Greek or Hebrew] pro concione magnatum. Afterward the Roman Senate was called [Greek or Hebrew], and sometimes [Greek or Hebrew] without an adjection. [Greek or Hebrew] therefore among the Heathen Grecians (from whom the word came) was not any assembly, but an assembly which had a jurisdiction or ruling power. It shall not be in vain to add that [Greek or Hebrew] to appeal to a superior Ruler cometh from the same original verb from which cometh [Greek or Hebrew].