A41335:182
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.
6. As to what you gather from 1 Tim. 4.14. for your Proof, that Text you know admits of Controversy: As whether Timothy was not first Ordained a Presbyter, and afterwards an Evangelist? Whether Paul's Imposition and the Presbyters were both at the same time? &c. but this is certain, laying the 1 Tim. 1.18. and 2 Tim. 1.6. together with this Text, there was something extraordinary as to Timothy's Gifts, in which the Presbyteries Imposition had no share; the Propositions differ, it is [Greek or Hebrew], by the putting on of my Hands; 1but 'tis [Greek or Hebrew], with the latin o• of the Hands of to• Presbytery, after Prophecy. So that when Paul and the Presbytery did both impose Hands, the Gift was conveyed as Paul saith, by my Hands. But as to ••s Office to a Potestative, Authoritative Mission, the Imposition of the Hands of the Presbytery did concur with Pa•• 's.
6. As to what you gather from 1 Tim. 4.14. for your Proof, that Text you know admits of Controversie: As whether Timothy was not first Ordained a Presbyter, and asterwards an Evangelist? Whether Paul's Imposition and the Presbyters were both at the same time? &c. but this is certain, laying the 1 Tim. 1.18. and 2 Tim. 1.6. together with this Text, there was something extraordinary as to Timothy's Gifts, in which the Pres••teries Imposition had no share; the Propositions differ, it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, by the putting on of my Hands;