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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 ...
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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.
I heard of an Ordination in our County of an illiterate Person, and that without Imposition of Hands; after it was past, hearing of another [who ⟨image 3⟩is a Scholar] to be Ordained by the same Persons, I wrote to him, to desire the Elders that were to Ordain him, to give me the Scriptures which did Warrant them to Ordain without Imposition of Hands: One of them undertook it, a Person whose Gifts and Graces I honour. For Scriptures he gave me none: Whether his Reasons be Cogent, the sequel shall declare.
That Diminishing from the Word is as great a Sin as Addition to the Word, none can deny; the Text is expressly against them both, Deut. 12.32. and ch. 4.2. both offer an Affront to the Wisdom of the •aw-giver: Addition charges him with Defect: Diminishing charges him with superfluity, appointing things needless and vain.