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 ...

14. Object. But is there any patterne or president in the Jew∣ish Church, for keeping backe scandalous sinners from the Sacrament?

Ans. There is; for I have proved a keeping back of notorious sinners both from the Passeover, and from the Temple it selfe which had a Sacramentall signification and was a Type of Christ and Communion with him. It is worthy of observation that by the Chaldee paraphrase, Exod. 12. 43. Any Israelite who was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 an apostate, might not eate of the Passeover. Againe, verse 48. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & omnis prophanus. So the Latine Inter∣preter of Onkelos: And no prophane person shall eate of it. The word is used not onely of a Heathen, but of any prophane person, as Prov. 2. 16. where the Chaldee expresseth the whorish woman (though a Jewesse) by the name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. It commeth from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be prophaned, è sancto prophanum fieri. Surely Onkelos had not thus paraphrased upon Exod. 12. if it had not been the Law of the Jewes, that notorious prophane persons should be kept backe from the Passeover.