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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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Thirdly, The Apostles did not constitute Churches as you do, with one single Pastor, &c. In Nine Churches we find several Teachers, but not one with a single Teacher. In a Young Church at Antioch, Act. 13.2, 3. There were three Teachers to separate Paul and Barnabas. There is an Error then in your Constitution, and that does not justify your Error in Ordination.
Thirdly, The Apostles did not constitute Churches as you do, with one single Pastor, &c. In Nine Churches we find several Teachers, but not one with a single Teacher. In a Young Church at Antioch, Act. 13.2, 3. There were three Teachers to separate Paul and Barnabas. There is an Errour then in your Constitution, and that does not justifie your Error in Ordination.
Fourthly, Give me a President, where the Pastor of one Church did so much as preach or pray in another Church; if you cannot, then we must not so much as preach or pray in another Church: But you have called me and others to preach in your Church.
To this you answered me, You could well do that, from Matth. 28.19. go teach all Nations; if so, then in other Churches.