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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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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 ⟨p. 448⟩not be without a conditionall love of God and of Christ to Iudas and his salvation: this love doth still continue in God, and in Christ, to save Iudas now in Hell upon condition of his believing, which every Christian I thinke will abominate.
4. That conditional love and conditional intention or meaning, could not have place in the Son of God. For as Spanhemius doth rightly argue in his late learned Exercitations de gratia universali pag. 746. it doth not become either the wisdom or goodness of God to will and intend a thing upon such a condition as neither is nor can be. And pag. 829. he saith, that this conditional destination or intention cannot be conceived, as being incident only to such as do neither foreknow nor direct and order the event, and in whose hand it is not to give the faculty and will of performing the thing. Which can not without impiety be thought or said of God. Thus he.