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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 6: Of the power of binding and loosing Matth. 18. 18.
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.
For the confutation of all those Glosses, and for the vindication of the true scope and sense of the Text, I shall first of all observe, whence this phrase of binding and loosing appeareth to have been borrowed, namely, both from the Hebrews and from the Graecians. The Hebrews did ascribe to the Interpreters of the Law, Power, authority [Greek or Hebrew] to bind, and [Greek or Hebrew] to loose. So Grotius tells us on Mat. 16. 19. The Hebrews had their loosing of an Excommunicated person, which they called [Greek or Hebrew] See Buxtorf. Lexic. Chald. Talm. Rabbin. pag. 1410. The Grecians also had a binding and loosing which was judicial. Budaeus and Stephanus on the word [Greek or Hebrew] cite out of Aeschines [Greek or Hebrew], Quum primo suffragio non absolutus fuerit reus [Greek or Hebrew] was the stone by which the Senators did give their suffrage in judgement, It was either a black stone, by which they did bind the sinner and retain his sin, and that stone was called [Greek or Hebrew]: or it was a white stone, by which they did loose remit and absolve: and that stone was called [Greek or Hebrew]: which was the thing that Tully calleth Solver crimine. So where it is said, her iniquity is pardoned Isa. 40. 2. the 70 read [Greek or Hebrew], her iniquity is loosed. And because there is usually some kind of expiation before a loosing and remitting of sins, which expiation being performed the loosing follows, therefore the Graecians called such necessary and requisite expiation by the name of [Greek or Hebrew] that is, loosing: and they had their [Greek or Hebrew], they expiatory Gods, who did chiefly take care of those expiations.
For the confutation of all those Glosses, and for the vindication of the true scope and sence of the Text, I shall first of all observe, whence this phrase of binding and loosing appeareth to have been borrowed, namely, both from the Hebrewes and from the Graecians. The Hebrews did ascribe to the Interpreters of the Law, Power, authority 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to bind, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to loose. So Grotius tells us on Mat. 16. 19. The Hebrews had their loosing of an Excommunicated person, which they called See Buxtorf. Lexic. Chald. Talm. Rabbin. pag. 1410. The Grecians also had a binding and loosing which was judiciall. Budaeus and Stephanus on the word cite out of Aeschines , Quum primo suffragio non absolutus fuerit reus was the stone by which the Senators did give their suffrage in judgement, It was either a blacke stone, by which they did bind the sinner and retaine his sinne, and that stone was called : or it was a white stone, by which they did loose remit and absolve: and that stone was called : which was the thing that Tully calleth Solvere crimine. So where it is said, her iniquity is pardoned