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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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forbiddeth to be mixed or so much as to eat with such and such scandalous members of the Church, he meaneth of Church-discipline and Excommunication, which he had begun to speak of, and so he comes to show them what kind of personsc he would have to be excommunicated, and used like that incestuous man. So Beza, Bullinger, Hunnius, Gualther, Martyr, Tossanus, and others upon the place. And long before all these Augustine and Bede plainly expound the Apostles words of a public Ecclesiastical Judgement, past upon one who hath either confessed his offence or is formally accused and convict thereof; and as they conceive, that Text doth not at all justify but doth rather condemn private Christians their separating from the Church, because of a mixture of scandalous persons. I know we ought prudently and cautiously to endeavour the avoiding of the company and fellowship of scandalous brethren, though not yet censured in the Church, (which may be proved from other Scriptures) but that is not the point the Apostle is here upon: he means by no not to eat synecdochically, the whole casting off of an excommunicate person, and all that separation or withdrawing which is commanded to be made from him, or if you will (by a metonymy of the effect for the cause) he means excommunication it self: and however, the words immediately following prove that a public judicial act is intended as hath been said before.
forbiddeth to be mixed or so much as to eate with such and such scandalous members of the Church, he meaneth of Church-discipline and Excommunication, which he had begun to speak of, and so he comes to shew them what kinde of personsc he would have to be excommunicated, and used like that incestuous man. So Beza, Bullinger, Hunnius, Gualther, Martyr, Tossanus, and others upon the place. And long before all these Augustine and Beda plainly expound the Apostles words of a publique Ecclesiasticall Judgement, past upon one who hath either confessed his offence or is formally accused and convict thereof; and as they conceive, that Text doth not at all justifie but doth rather condemne private Christians their separating from the Church, because of a mixture of scandalons persons. I know we ought prudently and cautiously to endeavour the avoyding of the company and fellowship of scandalous brethren, though not yet censured in the Church, (which may be proved from other Scriptures) but that is not the point the Apostle is here upon: he meanes by no not to eate synecdochically, the whole casting off of an excommunicate person, and all that separation or withdrawing which is commanded to be made from him, or if you will (by a metonimy of the effect for the cause) he meanes excommunication it selfe: and however, the words immediately following prove that a publique judiciall act is intended as hath been said before.