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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
Book 3 › Chapter 8: Whether Judas received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
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The second thing to be premised, is this: that the story which we have Joh 13. from the beginning to verse 31. concerning the Supper at which Christ discoursed of Judas and gave him the sop, after which he went immediately out, was neither in Bethany two days before the Passover, as the Antidote Animadverted tells us pag 5. nor yet after the institution of the Sacrament, as Mr Prynne tells us, Vindic. pag. 25. herein differing either from himself or his friend. That Supper in Bethany, the Pamphlet saith, was two days before the Passover; but some Interpreters collect from John 12. 1, 2. it was longer before; Christ having come to Bethany six days before, and after that Supper the next day Christ did ride into Jerusalem on a young Ass, and the people cried Hosanna, Joh. 12. 12. the very story which we have Matth. 21. Mark saith that two days before the Passover the chief Priests and Scribes sought how to put Christ to death, but he doth not say that the Supper in Bethany was two days before the Passover. But of this I will not contend, whenever it was, it is not much material to the present question, there was nothing at that Supper concerning Judas, but a rebuking of him for having indignation at the spending of the Alabaster box of Ointment, and from that he sought opportunity to betray Christ: But the discourse between Christ and his Apostles concerning one of them that should betray him, and their asking him one by one Is it I? was in the very night of the Passover, as is clear Matth. 26. 19, 20, to 26. Mark 14. 16, to 22. So that the story Joh. 13. 18. to 30. being the same with that in Matthew and Mark, could not be two days before the Passover. And if two days before Christ had discovered to John who should betray him, by giving the sop to Judas, how could every one of the Disciples (and so John among the rest) be ignorant of it two days after, which made every one of them to ask Is it I? Finally, that very night in which the Lord Jesus did institute the Sacrament, the Disciples ⟨p. 441⟩