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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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Shall we in the next place have a heap of humane testimonies concerning Judas his receiving of the Sacrament? I see so much light from Scripture to the contrary, that I shall not be easily shaken with the authority of men: yet it shall not be amiss a little to try whether it be altogether so as he would make us believe. He saith we go against all antiquity, pag. 18. and against the most and best of Protestant writers, pag. 23. yea, that all ages have received it as an indubitable verity that Judas received the Sacrament, pag. 19. No Sir, soft a little. The truth is the thing hath been very much controverted both among the Fathers, and among Papists, and among Protestant writers. I have found none so unanimous for Judas his receiving of the Sacrament as the Lutherans, iendeavouring thereby to prove that the wicked hypocrites and ⟨p. 451⟩unbelievers do in the Sacrament eat the true body of Christ, and drink his true blood, yet (as hot as they are upon it) they acknowledge it is no indubitable verity, they cite authorities against it as well as for it. See Gerhard Harm. evang. cap. 171. Brachmand Tom. 3. pag. 2082. Neither do the Lutherans make any such use of Judas his receiving of the Sacrament as Master Prynne doth: for they hold that not only excommunicated persons, but scandalous and notorious sinners, not yet excommunicated, ought to be kept back from the Lords Table: See Gerhard loc. come. Tom. 5. 180, 181, 182. where he proves distinctly that all these ought to be excluded from the Lords Supper. 1. Heretics. 2. Notorious scandalous sinners. 3. Excommunicated persons. 4. Possessed persons, furious persons, and idiots. 5. Infamous persons, who use unlawful arts, as Magicians, Necromancers, &c. and for the exclusion of scandalous sinners he citeth the Ecclesiastical Electoral Constitutions. L. Osiander Enchir. contra Anabap. cap. 6. quaest. 3. tells us that the Lutheran Churches exclude all known scandalous persons from the Sacrament. But it is strangest to me that Mr Prynne will not give credit to some of the Testimonies cited by himself. Theophylact. enar in Matth. 26. saith Quidam autem dicunt quod egresso Juda, tradidit Sacramentum aliis Discipulis, proinde & nos sic facere debemus, & malos à Sacramentis abarcere. Idem enar. in Marc. 14.