"Vain Religion and Edolatry, & call whatsoever is done in God's Service or Honour, without the expresse Commandment of his own Mord."-Sohn Knox. EDINBURGH: ROBERT OGLE, AND OLIVER & BOYD. M. OGLE & SON AND WILLIAM COLLINS, GLASGOW. D. DEWAR, PERTH. A. BROWN & CO., ABERDEEN. W. M'COMB, BELFAST. HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., AND JAMES NISBET & CO., LONDON. MDCCCXLIV. ANDREW MURRAY, Price Six Shillings. PRINTER, EDINBURGH. AARON'S ROD BLOSSOMING; OR, THE DIVINE ORDINANCE OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT VINDICATED; SO AS THE PRESENT ERASTIAN CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE DISTINCTION OF CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT, EXCOMMUNICATION AND SUSPENSION, IS FULLY DEBATED AND DISCUSSED, FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, FROM THE JEWISH AND THE TRUE NATURE AND RIGHTS OF MAGISTRACY, AND FROM THE GROUNDLESSNESS OF THE CHIEF OBJECTIONS MADE AGAINST THE PRESBYTERIAL GOVERNMENT, IN POINT OF A DOMINEERING ARBITRARY UNLIMITED POWER. PUBLIC BY GEORGE GILLESPIE MINISTER AT EDINBURGH. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder.-Isa. ix. 6. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, for God is not the author of confusion but of peace.-1 Cor. xiv. 32, 33. EDINBURGH: ROBERT OGLE, AND OLIVER & BOYD. M. OGLE & SON AND WILLIAM COLLINS, GLASGOW. D. DEWAR, PERTH. A. BROWN & CO., ABERDEEN. W. M'COMB, BELFAST. MDCCCXLIV. ZWV |