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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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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.
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, denyes to be Ordination, but it is meant of Confirmation, and bids me see Dr. Owen so interpreting it.
I honour the Doctor, and will consider him when I have first proved it is meant of Ordination. If Mens Judgments be worth any thing then for learning and Holiness, we have very eminent Men for it. Arch-Bishop Usher, Mr. Cart-wright, Dr. Lightfoot, Mr. Thomas Hooker, Gualter, Tossanus, Bullinger, Gillespy Dicson, Johnson, Jacob, These understand it only of Ordination. Other Divines of Confirmation and Ordination, and