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Weighty questions discussed I. Whether imposition of hands in separating a person to the…
Weighty questions discussed I. Whether imposition of hands in separating a person to the work of the ministry be necessary?, II. Whether it be essential to the right constitution of a particular church, that the teaching elders and the members meet always in one place? : whereunto is added a prediction of Mr. Daniel Rogers, minister in Essex, long before the beheading King Charles I and Arch-Bishop Laud, foretelling that they should not dye a natural death / by Giles Firmin ...Weighty questions discussed I. Whether imposition of hands in separating a person to the work of the ministry be necessry?, II. Whether it be essential to the right constitution of a particular church, that the teaching elders and the members meet alwayes in one place? : whereunto is added a prediction of Mr. Daniel Rogers, minister in Essex, long before the beheading King Charles I and Arch-Bishop Laud, foretelling that they should not dye a natural death / by Giles Firmin ...
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What Dr. Owen saith, Ordination of Ministers is one thing, Imposition of hands is another, differing as the whole and the part. I yield it by this whole, he must mean totum integral, it cannot be totum universal, but we say in Logic, suolata qualibet part tollitur perfectio Integri, sed sublata parte principally tollitur integrum. Then I say where there is not Imposition of hands, there is no Ordination, for this Imposition is the principal part, and so tollitur Integrum.
What Dr. Owen saith, Ordination of Ministers is one thing, Imposition of hands is another, differing as the whole and the part. I yield it by this whole, he must mean totum integrale, it cannot be totum universale, but we say in Logick, suolata qualibet parte tollitur perfectio Integri, sed sublata parte principali tollitur integrum. Then I say where there is not Imposition of hands, there is no Ordination, for this Imposition is the principal part, and so tollitur Integrum.
That it is the principal part I prove, and this shall be my first Argument.
1st. The Spirit in the Apostles, sets forth the whole Ordinance of Ordination, only by Imposition of Hands, but never by Fasting and Prayer, 1 Tim. 4.14. the laying on of the Hands of the Presbytery, 1 Tim. 5.22. Lay Hands on no Man suddenly. That in those Texts Ordination is meant, and not Confirmation, nor reception of Penitents, nor the Sick. I have proved in another Tract, so that I insist not upon them. Heb. 6.2. This my Brother with whom I now deal, denies to be Ordination, but it is meant of Confirmation, and bids me see Dr. Owen so interpreting it.