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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.
Fourthly, You may choose three or sour of your chief Members, and send them to her, to make her know, the Determination, of the Church, and that the Church doth this, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
The Church did so, the effects of it was, the clamours of the People ceased; the Mouths of them who before were opened against us, were silent, and now they rather sound fault with me, that I was too sharp upon the Person offending, the effect was a relenting, and humbling of her self before God in the public Congregation, to the satisfaction of the Church, she is now dead, but the Church having then their Pastor, absolved her before she died: and it was a comfort to her: her Absolution was without money.
The Church did so, the effects of it was, the clamours of the People ceased; the Mouths of them who before were opened against us, were silent, and now they rather sound sault with me, that I was too sharp upon the Person offending, the effect was a relenting, and humbling of her self before God in the publick Congregation, to the satisfaction of the Church, she is now dead, but the Church having then their Pastor, absolved her before she died: and it was a comfort to her: her Absolntion was without money.
By this I see, were this Ordinance of Church Discipline carried on according to the word of God (which hath been so fearfully abused) we should need no Writ de Excommunicato capiendo: I did but add a sew words, what the case of such a person was under this Sentence, and it struck an awe in the hearts of Carnal People.