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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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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 *Dr. Owen here doth not exclude 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 Ʋsher, 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 *Dr. Owen here doth not exclude it.
- *Because my Brother Charges me with my false Quotation of Mr. Cart-wright, take his words on Heb. 6.2. By Imposition of Hands the Apostle meaneth no Sacrament, much less Confirmation after Baptism, but by a Trope or borrowed Speech, the Ministry of the Church upon the which Bands were laid, which appeareth in that whosoever believeth not, there ought to be a Ministry by order to Teach and Govern the Church, overthroweth Christianity.Because my Brother Charges me with my false Quotation of Mr. Cart-wright, take his words on Heb. 6.2. By Imposition of Hands the Apostle meaneth no Sacrament, much less Confirmation after Baptism, but by a Trope or borrowed Speech, the Ministry of the Church upon the which Bands were laid, which appeareth in that whosoever believeth not, there ought to be a Ministery by order to Teach and Govern the Church, overthroweth Christianity.