CHAP. VII. Arguments for the negative of that Question formerly propounded.
THe lawfull authority of the Heathen Magistrates vindicated. It can not be shewed from Scripture,
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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- 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 21, 2025.
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that Christ as Mediator hath given any Commission of Vice-gerentship to the Christian Magistrate. That the worke of the Ministery is done in the name and authority of Jesus Christ: the worke of Magistracy not so. The power of Magistracy or civill Govern∣ment, was not given to Christ as Mediator, shewed from Luke 12. 14. Iohn ••8 36. Luke 17. 20, 21. Magi∣stracy founded in the Law of nature and Nations. The Scripture holds forth the same origination of Heathen Magistracy, and of Christian Magistracy.