A41335:110
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.
4thly. Imposition of Hands in Ordination to Office, was before Imposition of Hands to the Collation of extraordinary gifts, and more frequently mentioned; therefore the more reason why it should be so understood here, and not excluded.
The placing of Imposition, &c. in the Text-after Baptism, does not prove it to be meant of Confirmation, no more than the placing of Faith in God, after Repentance will prove that Repentance goeth before Faith in God; whereas if a Man do not first believe God to be, and such a God as the Word declares him to be; yea, if he do not believe the Resurrection and the last Judgment, he will hardly Repent.
The placing of Imposition, &c. in the Text-after Baptism, does not prove it to be meant of Confirmatton, no more than the placing of Faith in God, after Repentance will prove that Repentance goeth before Faith in God; whereas if a Man do not first believe God to be, and such a God as the Word declares him to be; yea, if he do not believe the Resurrection and the last Judgment, he will hardly Repent.
2dly. Cornelius and his Friends, the Gentiles, had those Gifts Conferred before Baptism, Acts 10.45, 46, 47, 48.