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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
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.
2. They who had power to receive him and forgive him, and to confirm their love towards him, had power to cast him out and censure him; but those [Greek or Hebrew], the Church officers of the Church of Corinth had power of the former; Therefore of the latter. See 2 Cor. 2. 7, 8. The Apostle adviseth them to forgive the offender. How to forgive him? not as man forgives a private injury: that was not the case. Nor only by the doctrine of remission of sins applied to him in foro conscientiae, upon evidence of his repentance: that any one Minister might do. But the Apostle will have those many who had censured him consistorially and judicially, to forgive him in the same manner. Which is yet further confirmed by that [Greek or Hebrew], that confirming of their love towards him vers. 8. [Greek or Hebrew] is ratum facere, thence cometh not only [Greek or Hebrew] but [Greek or Hebrew]. When the Apostle will express a ratified or confirmed testament Galat. 3. 15. he calls it [Greek or Hebrew]. From the same word Erasmus doth collect that the Apostle speaketh to them as the ordinary Judges who have power to confirm their love to that penitent sinner in an authoritative manner. And why doth the Apostle choose a word which properly signifieth an authoritative confirming or ratifying of a thing, if he were not speaking of a jurisdiction and power of inflicting and taking off again censures?
2. They who had power to receive him and forgive him, and to confirme their love towards him, had power to cast him out and censure him; but those 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Church officers of the Church of Corinth had power of the former; Therefore of the latter. See 2 Cor. 2. 7, 8. The Apostle adviseth them to forgive the offender. How to forgive him? not as man forgives a private injury: that was not the case. Nor onely by the doctrine of remission of sinnes applied to him in foro conscientiae, upon evidence of his repentance: that any one Minister might doe. But the Apostle will have those many who had censured him consistorially and judicially, to forgive him in the same manner. Which is yet further confirmed by that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that confirming of their love towards him vers. 8. is ratum facere, thence commeth not onely but . When the Apostle will expresse a ratified or confirmed testament