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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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5. The places cited by Mr Prynne do not prove that Christ did particularly tell and inform his Disciples that Judas (but that one of them) should betray him. Christ made it known ⟨p. 470⟩to John alone by the sign of giving the sop, Joh. 13. 26. Yea Theophylact. upon Joh. 13. thinks, that as the other Apostles heard not what Christ said to John concerning the Traitor, so John himself even at that instant could hardly imagine that Judas would commit so great wickedness. Nullus ergo cog•vit, saith he, no man did know it, which he gathers from the words of John himself, vers. 28, 29. Bucerus in Matth. 26. 23. holdeth the same. I know some think it was made known to all the Disciples by that Math. 26. 25 Then Judas which betrayed him answered and said, Master Is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said. But others answer that it is not certain that Christ said this to Judas in the hearing of all the Disciples: also that these words Thou hast said, are not a clear affirmation of the thing. Lud. Capellus Spicileg. in Matth. 26. admitteth these words Thou hast said, to be affirmative of that which had been said. But he moves this doubt: when Judas had said Is it I? he did not affirm the thing, but doubted of it. How then did Christ return such an answer as agreeth to that which Judas had said, as if it had been a positive truth. He gives this solution, that Christ as searcher of the heart did speak it to Judas, who was in his conscience convinced that he was the man, and so assenteth to the truth of that testimony of his Conscience. Now this could not be certainly known to the other Apostles. For my part I shall not need to contend much about that: for granting it to be a clear information to all the Disciples that Judas was the Traitor, yet (by their principles who hold Judas did receive the Sacrament) this was after, not before the Sacrament, for they make the anticipation to be in Matthew and Mark, and the true order to be in Luke.