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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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1st. This Text I see by Lutherans and Calvinists, is brought to prove the Peoples-right in Election; Dr. Owen hath made great Use of it, so Dr. R•le, so Gerhard, makes great use of it; but when they have done so, yet they all tell us, a Man is not a Minister as yet, but Ordination must be, and that as I defined it.
1st. This Text I see by Lutherans and Calvinists, is brought to prove the Peoples-right in Election; Dr. Owen hath made great Use of it, so Dr. R•le, so Gerhand, makes great use of it; but when they have done so, yet they all tell us, a Man is not a Minister as yet, but Ordination must be, and that as I defined it.
2dly. I think it is a good rule to help to understand the Scriptures, if one Text be obscure, and there be clearer texts in the Scripture speaking to the same thing: Carry the obscure Text to them, which are •lear. We have several clear Texts for Ordination with imposition of Hands, but not one now that gives the least shadow to prove such an Interpretation as this. It falls out very unhappily with some Men, saith Dr. Owen in another Case, who think they see some peculiar Opinion, in some singular Text of Scripture, and will not bring their Interpretation of it to the Analogy of Faith, and see how contrary it is to the Current of the word in other places.
2dly. I think it is a good rule to help to understand the Scriptures, if one Text be obscure, and there be clearer •exts in the Scripture speaking to the same thing: Carry the obscure Text to them, which are •lear. We have several clear Texts for Ordination with •mpositio• of Hands, but not one now that gives the least shadow to prove such an Interpre••tion as this. It falls out very unhappily with some Men, saith Dr. Owen in another Case, who think they see some peculiar Opinion, in some singular Text of Scripture, and will not bring their Interpretation of it to the Analogy of Faith, and see how contrary it is to the Current of the word in other places.