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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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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 end•d, 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.
Answ. 1. It was but just now that Mr Prynne told us, (to manifest that Iud•s was at the Sacrament) that Luke placeth Christs words concerning Iud•s, after the Sacrament, not before it. And more expressely he told us out of Iohn that Christs discourse about Iudas, and his informing of the Disciples that one of them should betray him, and his giving the sop to Iudas, was after the Sacrament, because it was after supper end•d, 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 Iudas did receive the Sacrament, the very same he now makes to be before the Sacrament, that he may prove Iudas a scandalous •inner and a known Traitor, even before his receiving of the Sacrament. And shall he thus abuse not onely his Reader, but the Word of God it selfe with palpable and grosse contradictions? I shall beseech him in the feare of God to looke to it, and never more to take this liberty to put contrary sences upon the holy Scripture, so as may seeme to serve most for his present advantage. Surely such lucubrations are not onely subitane but sinfull.