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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
Publication: London :: Printed by E.G. for Richard Whitaker ...,; 1646.
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Subject terms: Ecclesiastical law -- Great Britain.; Church and state -- Great Britain.; Church polity.; Excommunication.
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CHAP. I. That if the Erastians could prove what they alledge con∣cerning the Iewish Church Government, yet in that particular the Iewish Church could not be a president to the Christian.

THe Jewish Church a patterne to us in such things as were not typicall or temporall. If it could be proved, that the Jewes had no supreme Sanhodrin but one, and it such as had the power of civill Magi∣stracy, yet there are foure reasons for which that could be no president to the Christian Church. Where the constitution, manner of proceedings, and power of the Sanhedrin, ure touched. Of their Sy∣nagoga Magna, what it was. That the Priests had great power and authority not onely in occasionall Synods, but in the civill Sanhedrin it selfe.