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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 ...
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.
Secondly, I may deny your Consequence, at ••ast according to some Independent Principles, unless I preach as a gifted Brother. To preach to the Nations who were Heathens, and to preach in an Independent Church, differ. I may preach to Heathen as a Minister of Christ, but in an Independent Church, as a gi•ted Brother. I wish we knew the first Author of this Distinction, that we might scratch his Cranium, for so witty an Invention.
Secondly, I may deny your Co•seq•ence, at ••ast according to some Independent Principles, unless I preach as a gifted Brother. To preach to the Nations who were Heathens, and to preach in an Independ•nt Church, differ. I may preach to Heathen as a Minister of Christ, but in an Independent Church, as a gi•ted Brother. I wish we knew the first Author of this Distinction, that we might scratch his Cranium, for so witty an Invention.
What your judgment is as to this distinction, 1I cannot tell. But I am of Dr. Owens mind: If I did not think my self bo•nd, saith he, to Preach as a Minister, and as a Minister Authorized in all places, and on all occasions, whe• I am called thereunto, I think I should never preach much more in this world.
- 1Lib. 2. p. 101.