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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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Nay, That potestas clavium conoionalis is instituted in other places: but here its potestas cl•vium disciplinalis, as is evident: First, by the coherence of the Text, and by the taking of two or three more, and then telling of the thing to the Church; all ⟨p. 416⟩which intimateth a rising as from one or two or three more, so from them to the Church, which cannot be meant of one man, as hath been argued against both Pope and Prelate, for no one man can be called a Church: neither hath one man the power of jurisdiction; but one man hath the power of preaching.
Secondly, the Apostles, and those who succeed them in the work of the Ministry have the same power of the Keys committed from Christ to them ministerially, which Christ hath committed from the father to him (as Mediator) authoritatively. For in the parallel place, Joh. 20. v. 21, 23. where he gives them power of remitting or retaining sins, he saith, As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. But the Father gave Christ such a power of the Keys, as comprehends a power of Government, and not merely doctrinal, Isa. 22. 21, 22. I will commit the government into his hand, &c. And the Keys of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder.
Secondly, the Apostles, and those who succeed them in the worke of the Ministery have the same power of the Keys committed from Christ to them ministerially, which Christ hath committed from the father to him (as Mediator) authoritatively. For in the parallel place, Ioh. 20. v. 21, 23. where he gives them power of remitting or retaining sinnes, he saith, As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. But the Father gave Christ such a power of the Keyes, as comprehends a power of Government, and not meerely doctrinall,