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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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Fifthly, this binding power is not to be made use of, till all other means have been essayed, ante tentanda omnia saith Munsterus, first a private admonition, then before witnesses, then the matter is brought to the Church, the Church declareth and judgeth, the offender neglecteth to hear the Church, then ⟨p. 418⟩after all this cometh the binding, which must needs be a binding with censures; for that binding which Master Prynne speaks of, the denouncing of the wrath of God against the impenitent, by the preaching of the Gospel, is not, neither ought to be suspended or delayed upon such degrees of proceeding.
Fifthly, this binding power is not to be made use of, till all other meanes have been essayed, ante tentanda omnia saith Munsterus, first a private admonition, then before witnesses, then the matter is brought to the Church, the Church declareth and judgeth, the offender neglecteth to heare the Church, then ⟨p. 418⟩after all this commeth the binding, which must needs be a binding with censures; for that binding which Master Prynne speakes of, the denouncing of the wrath of God against the impenitent, by the preaching of the Gospell, is not, neither ought to be suspended or delayed upon such degrees of proceeding.
Sixthly, this binding and loosing is not without two or three witnesses, vers. 16. But that of two or three witnesses relateth to a forensicall or judicial proceeding, as Mr Prynne himself tells us. These witnesses may be brought before the Ecclesiastical court, either to prove the offenders contumacy being admonished, or to prove the scandalous fact it self, which was from the beginning known to two or three witnesses, according to the sense of Schoolmen, expressed in the precedent Chapter.
Sixthly, this binding and loosing is not without two or three witnesses, vers. 16. But that of two or three witnesses relateth to a forensicall or judiciall proceeding, as Mr Prynne himselfe tels us. These witnesses may be brought before the Ecclesiasticall court, either to prove the offenders contumacy being admonished, or to prove the scandalous fact it selfe, which was from the beginning knowne to two or three witnesses, according to the sence of Schoolmen, expressed in the precedent Chapter.