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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
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Ans. 1. It cannot be proved, that this is meant of sitting down to eat the Passover; nay, it rather appeareth from the Text, that it was to eat that other supper, at which the sop was given to Judas; The same discourse and questioning concerning the Traitor, which John sets down before Judas his getting of the sop and going out; is recorded by Matthew and Mark, to have been in that first supper, unto which Christ sate down with the twelve when even was come. Therefore Christs sitting down with the twelve Matth. 26. 20, 21. Mark▪ 14. 17, 18. •eing spoken of that supper at which Christ told his Disciples that one of them should betray him, and every one asked Is it I? (which by Mr Prynnes confession was not the ⟨p. 465⟩Paschal, but the ordinary supper.) It followeth that the sitting down with the twelve is not meant of the Passover, but of an ordinary supper before the Passover.
Ans. 1. It cannot be proved, that this is meant of sitting down to eate the Passeover; nay, it rather appeareth from the Text, that it was to eate that other supper, at which the sop was given to Iudas; The same discourse and questioning concerning the Traytor, which Iohn sets down before Iudas his getting of the sop and going out; is recorded by Ma•thew and Marke, to have been in that first supper, unto which Christ sate down with the twelve when even was come. Therefore Christs sitting down with the twelve Matth. 26. 20, 21. Mark▪ 14. 17, 18. •eing spoken of that supper at which Christ told his Disciples that one of them should betray him, and every one asked Is it I? (which by Mr Prynnes confession was not the ⟨p. 465⟩Paschall, but the ordinary supper.) It followeth that the sitting down with the twelve is not meant of the Passeover, but of an ordinary supper before the Passeover.