A42758:269
An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of…
An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of ruling-elders and of the authority of presbyteries and synods with a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyterial government.An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of ruling-elders and of the authority of presbyteries and synods with a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyteriall government.
Edinburgh: printed for James Bryson, 1641Edinburgh: printed for Iames Bryson, 1641
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but that the blind man was then with him, it can never be proved, and if it could, it should not import any permission or leave given to excommunicate persons to enter into the Temple, ⟨p. 168⟩but that some were bold to take this liberty. 6. The casting out of the Synagogue cannot be called civil excommunication, because the communion and fellowship of the Jews in the Synagogue was not civill, but sacred: they met for the worship of God, and not for civill affairs. 7. If by civill excommunication he mean banishment, or casting out of the City (for I conceive not what other thing this strange word can import) then how doth he suppose that they had still free access to the Temple, who were so excommunicated, for this importeth that they were still in the City.
but that the blinde man was then with him, it can never be proved, and if it could, it should not import any permission or leave given to excommunicate persons to enter into the Temple, ⟨p. 168⟩but that some were bold to take this liberty. 6. The casting out of the Synagogue cannot be called civil excommunication, because the communion and fellowship of the Jewes in the Synagogue was not civill, but sacred: they met for the worship of God, and not for civill affaires. 7. If by civill excommunication he meane banishment, or casting out of the City (for I conceive not what other thing this strange word can import) then how doth he suppose that they had still free accesse to the Temple, who were so excommunicated, for this importeth that they were still in the City.
We have now evinced an Inferior Ecclesiastical Court among the Jews. Come we next to the supreme Court. That there was an high Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin, distinct from the Civill Sanhedrin, is observed by Pelargus on Deut. 17. and S•pingius ad bonam fidem Sibrandi. pag. 261. & seq. Beside many others cited before, part. 1. chap. 11. And that it was so, we prove from three places of the old Testament, to pass other places, from which certain collections may be had to the same purpose.