A41335:106
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 ...
London : Printed for the author, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1st. I lay the Foundation for my Proof, in these Words, [Greek or Hebrew]. 1.5. not laying again the Foundation. This then is a Fundamental point. Foundation must last as long as the House lasts. Confirmation by extraordinary Gifts conveyed in the Imposition of Hands, do not last so long as the Church lasts: the Church hath lost this above Fifteen hundred Years: But the Ministry intended in this place, shall last to the end of the World, Mat. 28.20. till the Body of Christ be perfected, Eph. 4.12, 13. Therefore this is the Foundation.
1st. I lay the Foundation for my Proof, in these Words, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. 1.5. not laying again the Foundation. This then is a Fundamental point. Foundation must last as long as the House lasts. Confirmation by extraordinary Gifts conveyed in the Imposition of Hands, do not last so long as the Church lasts: the Church hath lost this above Fifteen hundred Years: But the Ministry intended in this place, shall last to the end of the World, Mat. 28.20. till the Body of Christ be perfected, Eph. 4.12, 13. Therefore this is the Foundation.
The other Heads of Catechism that are joined with it, must last to the end of the World. And if Baptism, then the Ministry, that have the Command from Christ, to Teach and Baptise, Mat. 28.20.
The other Heads of Catechism that are join'd with it, must last to the end of the World. And if Baptism, then the Ministry, that have the Command from Christ, to Teach and Baptise,