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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The oriental custom was to wash before meal, not after they had begun to eat.
1. The orientall custome was to wash before meal, not after they had begun to eate.
2. This Supper (in which the sop was given to Judas, whereupon he went away) was before the Feast of the Passover, Joh. 13. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], meaning immediately before the feast of the Passover, it being reckoned from the time of eating the Paschal Lamb, and so before the Feast of the Passover, hath the same sense as Luke 11. 38. [Greek or Hebrew], the Pharisee wondered that Christ had not washed before dinner, that is immediately before dinner. So here I understand before the Feast of the Passover, that is immediately before the time of eating the Paschal Lamb, which was the beginning of the Feast of the Passover. You will say perhaps that Christ did not eat the Passover upon the same day that the Jews did, and so those words before the Feast of Passover, may be understood before the Passover of the Jews, not before the Passover of Christ. I answer, whether Christ and the Jews kept the Passover at one time, is much debated among Interpreters. Baronius, Toletus, and divers others hold that Christ did eat the Paschal Lamb upon the same day with the Jews. Scaliger, Causabon, and others hold the contrary. The question hath been peculiarly debated between Joh. Cloppenburgius, and Ludovicus Capellus, yet so that Capellus (who follows Scaliger and Casaubon) acknowledgeth that both opinions have considerable reasons, and both are straitened with some inconveniencies. [Greek or Hebrew] de ultimo Christi paschate pag. 6. & 22. For my part, I shall not contend: but admit the distinction of Christs Passover and the Jews Passover; yet saith Maldonat upon Joh. 13. 1. I doubt not but John understands Christs Pass-over; for all the Evangelists in the story of the last Supper when they