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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 3 › Question 21: Quest. 21. May a man be oft or twice Ordained?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. 21. May a man be oft or twice Ordained?
IT is supposed, that we play not with an ambiguous word, that we remember what Ordination is. And then you will see Cause to distinguish, 1. Between entire true Ordination, and the external act or words or ceremony only. 2. Between one that was truly ordained before, and one that was not. And so I answer.
1. He that seemed Ordained, and indeed was not, is not Re-ordained when he is after Ordained.
2. It is needful therefore to know the Essentials of Ordination, from the Integrals and Accidentals.
3. He that was truly Ordained before may in some cases receive again the Repetition of the bare words and outward Ceremonies of Ordination (as Imposition of hands). Where I will, 1. Tell you in what Cases. 2. Why.