A41335:117
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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2dly. Gospel Worship is a fundamental point, and it was Christs pleasure to have a Gospel Ministry to carry on that Worship to the Worlds End; and under that Rite, the Ministry is meant, Ephes. 4.11.12, 1 Cor. 12.28.
3dly. Under Baptism, the Lord's Supper might be comprehended, being the other Sacrament *or being those were the Catechetical Heads, which the Novices learned before they were Baptized and admitted into the Church (as Baptism and Repentance went together in John's Baptism, Matthew 3.) so here Baptism and Repentance are mentioned, but for the Lords Supper, they might be further instructed after they were in the Church, before they were admitted to it.
- *So Dr. Gouge's Baptism Synechdochice is put forboath Sacraments.
4thly. There is not such a necessity of Baptism, as of Faith and Repentance; yet Baptism is mentioned amongst those Heads.