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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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CHAP. III. A further demonstration that these words Let him be unto thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, are not meant of avoiding Civill, but Religious or Churchfellowship.
CHAP. III. A further demonstration that these words Let him be unto thee as an Heathen man and a Publican, are not meant of avoyding Civill, but Religious or Churchfellowship.
The great disorder and confusion which M. P•ynne his sense of this Text might introduce. That it was not unlawful to the Jews to have civill company or fellowship with Heathens, unless it were for religious respects, and in case of the danger of an idolatrous ensnarement, which is cleared by a passage of Elijah in Thesbyte. In what sense Peter saith Acts 10. 28. that a Jew might not keep company or come unto one of another Nation. That the Jews did keep civill and familiar fellowship with Ger toschav, or Gerschagnar, the proselyte indweller, or the proselyte of the gate, who yet was uncircumcised, and no member of the Jewish Church, nor an observer of the Law of Moses, but only of the seven precepts given to the sons of Noah. Which cleareth the reason why the Synod of the Apostles and Elders, who would not impose circumcision nor any other of the Mosaical ceremonies upon the believing Gentiles, did nevertheless impose this as a necessary burden upon them, to abstain from blood and things strangled. Christians are permitted by Paul to eat and drink with them that believe not. Further proofs that some uncircumcised Heathens had civill fellowship with the Jews, and some circumcised Hebrews had not Ecclesiastical communion with the Jews. The Question decided out of Maimonides. That these words, Let him be unto