A41335:149
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.
SECT. III.
Now to your Reason, why you Ordain without Imposition of Hands, that which you chie••y insist upon is this.
NOw to your Reason, why you Ordain without Imposition of Hands, that which you chie••y insist upon is this.
There is neither Scripture, Precept, no• President, for ordinary Officers, of one. Church, to impose Hands in the Ordination of an Officer in another Church Answ. First, What need of such Presidents, while Apostles and Evangelists were living? Secondly, This Argument of yours plainly implies, that there is Scripture Precept, and President, to ordain in another Church, so it be without Imposition of Hands: It lies upon you to show, where that Precept or President is. I know no such Texts; you acted, did you act in Faith; that you acted according to God, and were well-pleasing to God, in your ordaining without Imposition of Hands? Then show us that Divine Testimony upon which your Faith for so acting, is grounded: You never gave me one as yet; and if you cannot do it, your Faith in this Act is but vain. If there be any thing I do in the House of God, for which I cannot give either Precept, President, necessary Consequence, from Scripture or light of Nature, I will lay by that Act, I will not trouble the Peace of the Church, nor hinder Union with my Brethren, by keeping up such Practices.
There is neither Scripture, Precept, no• President, for ordinary Officers, of one. Church, to impose Hands in the Ordination of an Officer in another Church Answ. First, What need of such Presidents, while Apostles and Evangelists were living? Secondly, This Argument of yours plainly implies, that there is Scripture Precept, and President, to ordain in another Church, so it be without Imposition of Hands: It lyes upon you to shew, where that Precept or President is. I know no such Texts; you acted, did you act in Faith; that you acted according to God, and were well-pleasing to God, in your ordaining without Imposition of Hands? Then shew us that Divine Testimony upon which your Faith for so acting, is grounded: You never gave me one as yet; and if you cannot do it, your Faith in this Act is but vain. If there be any thing I do in the House of God, for which I cannot give either Precept, President, necessary Consequence, from Scripture or light of Nature, I will lay by that Act, I will not trouble the Peace of the Church, nor hinder Union with my Brethren, by keeping up such Practices.