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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.
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.
To return to my Brother. To what I have said from the one body in the Corinth. 12. That the Pastors of Churches may help other Churches, where there are none, and they call to help them, you answer me.
This is all you have to say, and there is little in it.
Answ. No, not all, Brother; I gave you your own Text, whereby you proved that Pastors of other Churches may join with you in days of Fasting and Prayer, and preaching; and if so then in Ordaining.
Answ. No, not all, Brother; I gave you your own Text, whereby you proved that Pastors of other Churches may joyn with you in days of Fasting and Prayer, and preaching; and if so then in Ordaining.