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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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Answ. True, but the Prophets do not say, they should be conferred by Imposition of Hands, and so be made a Catechetical Head under the New Testament.
Answ. True, but the Prophets do not say, they should be conferred by Imposition of Hands, and so be made a Chatachetical Head under the New Testament.
2dly. So do several of the Prophets foretell, what Pastors the Lord will give to his Church under the time of the Messah. But to make an end with Dr. Owen to whom you refer me; He gives us four Cases in which this Imposition of Hands was used. The Second he mentions was in healing of Diseases, Mark 16.18. &c. This cannot be the meaning here, saith he, for this gift was extraordinary, occasional, Temporary, Proper to some.
Upon the same grounds, it cannot be meant of Confirmation. For the Gift was Extraordinary, Temporary, Proper to the Apostles; Ananias had an ⟨p. 10⟩immediate Call to it, Acts 9.10, 11.17. Philip had no such power, or Gift in Acts 8. And after the Apostles we read of none that could, or did confer Gifts extraordinary by Imposition of Hands. What he means by occasional, I know not. I know no word of Healing unless People were sick.