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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.
Of the Protestant Interpreters upon the place, Gesnerus, applieth it to the power of the Keys, to be made use of according to that which is written Math. 18. Fabritius conceiveth the Text to comprehend castigationes spirituals, and he citeth Math. 16. 19. Math. 18. 18. Jo. 20. 23. Heshusius cleareth it by the Instance of Theodosius excommunicated by Ambrose, Master Cotton in his Keys of the Kingdom of heaven pag. 53. applieth it to the Ecclesiastical power of the Keys. Bartholomaeus Coppen understands it of the spiritual rule and Kingdom of Christ, and makes it parallel to 2 Cor. 10. 4. the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds, vers. 6. and having in readiness to revenge all disobedience. This judiciary Ecclesiastical power is to be executed upon all such of the nations as fall under the Government of the Church according to the rule of Christ. And this honour have all his Saints, that their Ministers are armed with a power. They that follow this latter exposition will be easily induced to believe that the binding and loosing Mat. 18. 19. is also judicial or juridical: They that follow the former exposition, will also observe that the phrase of binding in Scripture, even where it is ascribed to the Church or Saints, is used in a judiciary sense, and therefore it is most suitable to the Scripture phrase to understand Mat. 18, 19. in that sense.
Of the Protestant Interpreters upon the place, Gesnerus, applieth it to the power of the Keyes, to be made use of according to that which is written Math. 18. Fabritius conceiveth the Text to comprehend castigationes spirituales, and he citeth Math. 16. 19. Math. 18. 18