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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
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As to the Question of Ruling Elders, which have continued in the Virgin Churches of the Vaudois from the Apostles days, and in the Churches of Bohemia, 1where their Work is laid open with much more satisfaction to me, than in any Book I have yet seen in England. I shall be thankful to any Brother who will dispute the Question Pro or Con, it shall not hinder Union.
As to the Question of Ruling Elders, which have continued in the Virgin Churches of the Vaudois from the Apostles dayes, and in the Churches of Bohemia, 1where their Work is laid open with much more satisfaction to me, than in any Book I have yet seen in England. I shall be thankfull to any Brother who will dispute the Question Pro or Con, it shall not hinder Ʋnion.
- 1The Apostle mentioning only Bishops and Deacons, 1 Tim. 3. troubles me.
As to this Question about Ordination, it is to my Knowledge a great hinderance of our Union: The thing is so clear in several Texts of Scripture, how it should be performed, and the Practice of the best, if not all the Churches since the Apostles times, have been accordingly with Imposition of Hands, that I have wondered any Man should scruple it.
As to this Question about Ordination, it is to my Knowledge a great hinderance of our Ʋnion: The thing is so clear in several Texts of Scripture, how it should be performed, and the Practice of the best, if not all the Churches since the Apostles times, have been accordingly with Imposition of Hands, that I have wondered any Man should scruple it.