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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
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3 He shall never be able to prove either that those drunken persons 1 Cor. 11. 21. were drunken when they did resort to the Church, (for it was in the Church and in eating and drinking there, that they made themselves drunk) nor yet that the Idolaters and Fornicators in the wilderness their eating of the spiritual meat and drinking of the spiritual drink mentioned by the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. was after their Idolatries and Fornications: But of this latter, I have elsewhere spoken distinctly and by it self.
3 He shall never be able to prove either that those drunken persons 1 Cor. 11. 21. were drunken when they did resort to the Church, (for it was in the Church and in eating and drinking there, that they made themselves drunke) nor yet that the Idolaters and Fornic•tors in the wildernesse their eating of the spirituall meat and drinking of the spirituall drinke mentioned by the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. was after their Idolat•ies and Fornications: But of this latter, I have elsewhere spoken distinctly and by it self.
4 To say that all who were visible members of the Church of Corinth were admitted, and none excluded, and to say it with a certainly is to make too bold with Scripture. And the contrary will sooner be proved from 1 Cor. 10. 21. ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of Devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the Table of Devils. So much for his first exception.