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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. The Apostle upon occasion of that offenders case, puts the Corinthians in remembrance, that they ought likewise to purge the Church from the mixture of other scandalous sinners, 1 Cor. 5. 9, 10, 11, 12. The Chapter both begins and ends with ⟨p. 434⟩the case of the incestuous man and his punishment; which makes interpreters conceive, that what is interlaced concerning other scandalous sinners in the Church, is to be understood of such as the Apostle would have to be censured in the same manner as that incestuous man.
3. The Apostle upon occasion of that offenders case, puts the Corinthians in remembrance, that they ought likewise to purge the Church from the mixture of other scandalous sinners, 1 Cor. 5. 9, 10, 11, 12. The Chapter both begins and ends with ⟨p. 434⟩the case of the incestuous man and his punishment; which makes interpreters conceive, that what is enterlaced concerning other scandalous sinners in the Church, is to be understood of such as the Apostle would have to be censured in the same manner as that incestuous man.
4. He instanceth in six cases, (not intending an enumeration of all the particular cases of Excommunication) fornication, covetousness, (meaning covetousness scandalously and grossly manifested, or practical covetousness, for of the heart God only judgeth) idolatry, railing, drunkenness, extortion. His instancing in these, tells us he intends not the case of private civill injuries, but of scandals, yea though the scandal be without the mixture of any civill or private injury, as in the case of an Idolater or a drunkard.