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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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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.
Seventhly, this phrase of binding and loosing is taken both from the Hebrews, and from the Grecians. But both the Hebrews and the Grecians used these words in a juridical sense, as I observed in the beginning.
Seventhly, this phrase of binding and loosing is taken both from the Hebrews, and from the Grecians. But both the Hebrews and the Grecians used these words in a juridicall sence, as I observed in the beginning.
Eighthly, that the binding and loosing Matth. 18. 18. is juridical, not doctrinal, belonging to the power of jurisdiction, not of order, is the sense of the ancients above cited, as likewise of Scotus lib. 4. Sent. Dist. 19. Quaest. 1. art. 5. Tostatus in