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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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That which he addeth pag. 18, 19. if it have either strength or good sense, I confess the dullness of my conception. He would prove from Matthew and Mark that immediately before the institution of the Sacrament, Christ told his Disciples that one of them should betray him, and they all asked Is it I? and that therefore certainly the Sacrament was given to Judas, because he was the last man that said Is it I? immediately before the institution. And further (saith he) Luke placeth these words of Christ concerning Judas his betraying of him, after the institution, which manifesteth that Judas was present at the Sacrament. His inference is this, that seeing John averreth, Chap. 13. v. 2. that all this discourse, and the giving of the sop to ⟨p. 450⟩Judas was after supper, and the other three Evangelists agreeing that Christ instituted and distributed the Sacrament, as they did eat, before supper quite ended, it must follow that Judas did receive the Sacrament.
That which he addeth pag. 18, 19. if it have either strength or good sence, I confesse the dulnesse of my conception. He would prove from Matthew and Marke that immediately before the institution of the Sacrament, Christ told his Disciples that one of them should betray him, and they all asked Is it I? and that therefore certainly the Sacrament was given to Iudas, because he was the last man that said Is it I? immediately before the institution. And further (saith he) Luke placeth these words of Christ concerning Iudas his betraying of him, after the institution, which manifesteth that Iudas was present at the Sacrament. His inference is this, that seeing Iohn averreth, Chap. 13. v. 2. that all this discourse, and the giving of the sop to ⟨p. 450⟩Iudas was after supper, and the other three Evangelists agreeing that Christ instituted and distributed the Sacrament, as they did eate, before supper quite ended, it must follow that Iudas did receive the Sacrament.
Answ. 1. But how doth this hang together, first to argue that Judas received the Sacrament, because Christs discourse concerning Judas, and Judas his question Is it I? were immediately before the institution of the Sacrament: and again to prove that Judas did receive the Sacrament, because Christs discourse about Judas was after supper ended, and after the Sacrament which was instituted before supper ended? the one way of arguing destroyeth the other. 2. For that in Matthew and Mark, that Christ discoursed of the Traitor, and that Judas said Is it I? before the institution of the Sacrament, I confess; but that it was immediately before the institution of the Sacrament the Evangelists do not say, neither doth he prove it. Judas went out after that discourse and the sop, and how much of the consolatory and valedictory Sermon (which beginneth