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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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2. If Christ would not pray for Judas, but for his elect Apostles only, and such as should believe through the word of the Gospel, then he meant not so much as conditionally to give his body and blood for Judas. (for if he meant any good to Judas, so much as conditionally, he would not have excluded him from having any part at all in his prayers to God.) But Christ doth exclude Judas from his prayer, John 17. not only as one of the reprobate world vers. 9. but even by name vers. 12. giving him over for lost, and one that was not to be prayed for.
2. If Christ would not pray for Iudas, but for his elect Apostles onely, and such as should believe through the word of the Gospell, then he meant not so much as conditionally to give his body and blood for Iudas. (for if he meant any good to Iudas, so much as conditionally, he would not have excluded him from having any part at all in his prayers to God.) But Christ doth exclude Iudas from his prayer, Iohn 17. not onely as one of the reprobate world vers. 9. but even by name vers. 12. giving him over for lost, and one that was not to be prayed for.
3. Love and hatred in God and in his son Jesus Christ, being eternal and unchangeable, (for actus Dei immanentes sunt aeterni) it followeth that if there was such a decree of God, or any such meaning or intention in Christ, as to give his body and blood for Judas, whom he knew infallibly to be lost: and since that same conditional meaning or intention could ⟨p. 448⟩not be without a conditional love of God and of Christ to Judas and his salvation: this love doth still continue in God, and in Christ, to save Judas now in Hell upon condition of his believing, which every Christian I think will abominate.
3. Love and hatred in God and in his sonne Jesus Christ, being eternall and unchangeable, (for actus Dei immanentes sunt aeterni) it followeth that if there was such a decree of God, or any such meaning or intention in Christ, as to give his body and blood for Iudas, whom he knew infallibly to be lost: and since that same conditionall meaning or intention could