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THe Erastians misrepresent the Jewish Govern∣ment. Their complyance with the Anabaptists in this particular. Their confounding of that which
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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
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- 1646.
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- Ecclesiastical law -- Great Britain.
- Church and state -- Great Britain.
- Church polity.
- Excommunication.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42757.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.
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was extraordinary in the Jewish Church, with that which was the ordinary rule. Fourteen Objections answered. M. Prynne his great mistakes of Deut. 17. and 2 Chron. 19. The power and practice of the godly Kings of Iudah in the reformation of Religion cleared. The Argument from Solomon his deposing of Abiathar, and putting Zadock in his place, answe∣red foure waies. The Priests were appointed to be as Judges in other cases, beside those of leprosie and jealousie. 2 Chro. 23. 19. further scanned. A scanda∣lous person was an unclean person both in the Scrip∣ture phrase, and in the Jewish language. The se∣questration of the uncleane from the Sanctuary, no civill punishment. Of Lawes and causes Civill and Ecclesiasticall among the Jewes. Of their Scribes and Lawyers. Some other observable passages of Maimonides concerning Excommunication. What meant by not entring into the Congregation of the Lord, Deut. 23. 1, 2, 3. and by separating the mixed multitude, Nehem. 13. 3. Five reasons to prove that the meaning of these places, is not in reference to civil dignities and places of government, nor yet in reference to unlawful mariages onely, but in reference to Church-membership and communion. Two Ob∣jections to the contrary answered. One from Exod. 12. 48. Another from the example of Ruth. An useful observation out of Onkelos, Exod. 12.