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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.
You tell me, you deny a Political-visible Catholic Church.
You tell me, you deny a Political-visible Catholick Church.
Answ. So do I. If I said but little, I am sure you say too much. How doth it follow? Because we may help neighbour Churches, when they call us to help them with Pastors in a Gospel way. Therefore I must own a Political, visible, Catholic Church. I gave you instance before, how Churches may help to purge themselves from scandalous persons, tho they have no Officers. If there be a Family by us where are several Children Parents both dead, and there is none that takes care of them to help them to food: It is one thing for me to go to the House, and help them with food, another thing to cast one of the Children out of the House, if it be cross, refractory, and will not be reclaimed by counsel. The case is ⟨p. 17⟩the same here; twenty or forty Elders may meet to give Counsel in a Case, leaving the Execution to the Church whence the Case depends.
Answ. So do I. If I said but little, I am sure you say too much. How doth it follow? Because we may help neighbour Churches, when they call us to help them with Pastors in a Gospel way. Therefore I must own a Political, visible, Catholick Church. I gave you instance before, how Churches may help to purge themselves from seandalous persons, tho they have no Officers. If there be a Family by us where are several Children Parents both dead, and there is none that takes care of them to help them to food: It is one thing for me to go to the House, and help them with food, another thing to cast one of the Children out of the House, if it be cross, refractory, and will not be reclaimed by counsel. Thecase is ⟨p. 17⟩the same here; twenty or forty Elders may meet to give Counsel in a Case, leaving the Execution to the Church whence the Case depends.