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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 6
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CHAP. VI.
§ 1. Your fifth Section is about the words [Receive the Holy Ghost, &c.] in Ordination. 1. Two things you include in the sense: 1. Inward Qualifications. 2. Investiture. But I told you 1. Inward Qualifications are presupposed, and the person examined accordingly. 2. I never heard or knew of any that received them by Ordination. 3. By Investiture it is the Ministerial Office that is given them: To none of this do you answer.
§ 1. YOur fifth Section is about the words [Receive the Holy Ghost, &c.] in Ordination. 1. Two things you include in the sense: 1. Inward Qualifications. 2. Investiture. But I told you 1. Inward Qualifications are presupposed, and the person examined accordingly. 2. I never heard or knew of any that received them by Ordination. 3. By Investiture it is the Ministerial Office that is given them: To none of this do you answer.
But you say, Christ used the words, and no extraordinary thing then conferred, &c.] Ans. 1. If Christ intended their after-reception of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, it followeth not that we must use such words, that can promise or give no such spirit. 2. There were five several sorts of Mission or Commission then given to Christ's Ministers.