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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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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.
4. He instanceth in six cases, (not intending an enumeration of all the particular cases of Excommunication) fornication, covetousnesse, (meaning covetousnesse scandalously and grossely manifested, or practicall covetousnesse, for of the heart God onely judgeth) idolatry, railing, drunkennesse, extortion. His instancing in these, tels us he intends not the case of private civill injuries, but of scandals, yea though the scandall be without the mixture of any civill or private injury, as in the case of an Idolater or a drunkard.
5. And even where there is a private injury wrapped up in the bosom of the scandal, as in railing and extortion, yet the Apostle there looketh upon them not qua injuries, but qua scandals; and in that notion, he will have not only the party particularly interested and injured, but the other members of the Church also to withdraw communion from the offender; for he writeth to the whole Church of Corinth, not to keep company with such.
5. And even where there is a private injury wrapt up in the bosome of the scandall, as in railing and extortion, yet the Apostle there looketh upon them not qua injuries, but qua scandals; and in that notion, he will have not onely the party particularly interrested and injured, but the other members of the Church also to withdraw communion from the offender; for he writeth to the whole Church of Corinth, not to keepe company with such.