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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.
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But to save my self the labour of more citations, I take help from Bishop Bilson, of the perpetual Government of Christs Church cap. 4. where though he expound the binding and loosing Matth. 18. 18. to be Acts of the Magistrate, yet he acknowledgeth hat the Ancient writers lean very much another way, and understand that Text of the ministerial and spiritual power of Excommunication, for which he citeth Chrysost. de sacerdotio lib. 3. Ambros. de paenitent. lib. 1. c. 2. Hierom. in Matth. cap. 18. Hilar. in Mat. can. 18. Unto these I also add Isidorus Polusiota in the third Book of his Epistles, Epist. 260. where he ⟨p. 411⟩applieth this Text Matth. 18, 19. to this sense, that impenitent sinners are to be bound, and penitent sinners loosed, and thence argueth against the absolving of a perjured person who had not declared himself penitent, but had purchased his absolution by a gift. Nor can I pass Chrysostom upon this very Text, where he tells that Christ will have such a one to be punished [Greek or Hebrew], both with a present Chastisement and with a future punishment, or both in earth and in heaven; and would have the offender to fear [Greek or Hebrew], casting out of the Church. He addeth [Greek or Hebrew], he cuts not off immediately, but after admonitions.
But to save my self the labour of more citations, I take help from Bishop Bilson, of the perpetuall Government of Christs Church cap. 4. where though he expound the binding and loosing Matth. 18. 18. to be Acts of the Magistrate, yet he acknowledgeth hat the Antient writers leane vere much another way, and understand that Text of the ministeriall and spirituall power of Excommunication, for which he citeth Chrysost. de sacerdotio lib. 3. Ambros. de paenitent. lib. 1. c. 2. Hierom. in Matth. cap. 18. Hilar. in Mat. can. 18. Vnto these I also adde Isidorus Polusiota in the third Book of his Epistles, Epist. 260. where he ⟨p. 411⟩