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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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So for Kissing, men kissing men, and women kissing women, which you say was meant by their kissing, not men kissing women. This also was a civil custom a thousand of years before any Apostle was born; how then this should be called an Apostolical Constitution I cannot understand. Our civil custom is to give the right-hand, or the hand, and signifies the same that kissing doth; the Apostle modifies a civil custom of their own; and we stand obliged to the same duty the Apostle intends in it, even Love without Dissimulation.
For the Deaconess, if it were indeed an office required in all Churches, I think we have done ill to omit it. If the Council of Laodicea, Can. 11. did remove the Deaconesses, as some think, we regard no such Councils. The Churches of Bohemia did keep up that Office, as Comenius relates.
That it was an office, properly so called, I question; The Deaconess was not ordained, as were all Church-officers, and that with Imposition of hands; they who omit Imposition of hands, let them answer it. Danaeus saith, Non tam fuit munus hoc publicum quam subsidium aliquod a Diaconis quaesitum, she was a help to the Deacon in such ⟨p. 54⟩thing as were not comely for a Deacon to meddle in, if the Sisters of the Church were sick. As to this point, in Churches rightly constituted, the Deacon takes so much care of the sick, though poor, that as to the Nurse, Food and Physic, there is no want, this I know by good experience. 2ly. Danaeus thinks they were helpful at their Love-feasts to wash, dress, &c. this end is easily answered, they being removed. The third was in the entertainment of strangers, washing of feet, as in those Countries was their custom; but in our Countries, where there is no such custom, wearing shoos as we do, and not so hot a Climate, and here all are Christians nomine tenus, that end and use is laid by. The first use then only remains, which is answered as I said before.