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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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First he saith, that at the time when Christ instituted the Sacrament he foretold the Disciples that Judas should betray him John 13. 18. to 28. Matth. 26. 20. to 26. Mark 14. 18. to 22. Luk• 22. 21, 22, 23. More plainly pag. 27. he saith, Christ did admit Judas, to eat the Passover and Sacrament with his other Disciples, and they made not any scruple of conscience to communicate with him in both, no not after Christ had particularly informed them, and Judas himself, that he should betray him, Matth. 26. 21. to 36.
First he saith, that at the time when Christ instituted the Sacrament he foretold the Disciples that Iudas should betray him Iohn 13. 18. to 28. Matth. 26. 20. to 26. Marke 14. 18. to 22. Luk• 22. 21, 22, 23. More plainly pag. 27. he saith, Christ did admit Iudas, to eate the Passeover and Sacrament with his other Disciples, and they made not any s•ruple of conscience to communicate with him in both, no not after Christ had particularly informed them, and Iudas himselfe, that he should betray him, Matth. 26. 21. to 36.
Answ. 1. It was but just now that Mr Prynne told us, (to manifest that Judas was at the Sacrament) that Luke placeth Christs words concerning Judas, after the Sacrament, not before it. And more expressly he told us out of John that Christs discourse about Judas, and his informing of the Disciples that one of them should betray him, and his giving the sop to Judas, was after the Sacrament, because it was after supper endd, the Sacrament being instituted and distributed before supper ended Vindic. pag. 18, 19. & 25. The same thing which before he made to be after the Sacrament, to prove that Judas did receive the Sacrament, the very same he now makes to be before the Sacrament, that he may prove Judas a scandalous inner and a known Traitor, even before his receiving of the Sacrament. And shall he thus abuse not only his Reader, but the Word of God it self with palpable and gross contradictions? I shall beseech him in the fear of God to look to it, and never more to take this liberty to put contrary senses upon the holy Scripture, so as may seem to serve most for his present advantage. Surely such lucubrations are not only subitane but sinful.