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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.
zHierome both in his Commentary upon Matth. 18. and in his Epistle to Heliodorus, speaketh of this power of binding as a judicial forensicall power belonging to the Ministers or Officers of the Church, by which they judge and censure offenders.
zHierome both in his Commentary upon Matth. 18. and in his Epistle to Heliodorus, speaketh of this power of binding as a judiciall forensicall power belonging to the Ministers or Officers of the Church, by which they judge and censure offenders.
- zHior. in Matth. 18. 19, Quia dixerat, Si autem Ecclesiam non audierit, sit tibi sicut ethnicus & publicanus, & poter•t contemptoris fratris haec occulta esse responsio vel tacita cogitatio: si me despicis & ego te despicio: situ me condemnas & meâ sententiâ condemnaberis: potestatem tribuit Apostolis, ut sciant qui à talibus condemnantur, humanam sententiam divina sententia roborari, & quodcunque ligatum sucrit in terra, lig•ri pariter & in caelo. Hier. Epist. 1. ad Heliod. Absit ut de his quicquam sinist um loquar, qui apostolico gradui succedentos, Christi corpus sacro ore conficiunt, per quos & nos Christiani sumus. Qui claves regni caelorum habentes, quodammodo ante Judic•i deem judicant, &c, Mihi ante Presbyterum (legendum fortasse Presbyterium) sedere non licet: illi si peccavero, linnet trader me Satanae in interitum catuis, ut spiritus salvus fit. Et in veteri quidem lege, quicunque sacerdotibus non obtemperasset, aut extra castra positus, lapidabatur à populo, aut gladio cervice subjecta, contemptum expiabat c•uore: Nunc ve•ò inobediens, spiritually mucrone truncatur, aut ejectus de Ecclesia, •abido daemonum ore discerp•tur.