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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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4. This concerns the first Reformers. We receive our Ordination from godly and learned men, who hate and have cast off whatever is Romish, but not the Holy Scripture, because they pass through Rome to us.
4. This concerns the first Reformers. We receive our Ordination from godly and learned men, who hate and have cast off whatever is Romish, but not the Holy S•ripture, because they pass through Rome to us.
As to the Text you quote, Phil 3.16. When eunto we have already attained, &c. this is nothing to our Case, nor will it heal.
Several there were who did believe in Christ, and embraced the Gospel, but were not so clear in the total Abolition of the Ceremonial •aw, as Rom. 14. shows: But however since they had believed in Christ, and embraced the Gospel, walk according to that Rule unto which you have attained, God will reveal more in time: The Case is nothing like. You have attained to Fasting and Prayer in Ordination, but not to Imposition of Hands. But Fasting and Prayer we use and may use in twenty Cases, but these Cases do not make twenty distinct Ordinances, though we Fast and Pray: It is but one Ordinance. But Separation to the Work of the Ministry is a distinct Ordinance.
Several there were who did believe in Christ, and embraced the Gospel, but were not so clear in the total Abolition of the Ceremonial •aw, as Rom. 14. shews: But however since they had believed in Christ, and embraced the Gospel, walk according to that Rule unto which you have attained, God will reveal more in time: The Case is nothing like. You have attained to Fasting and Prayer in Ordination, but not to Imposition of Hands. But Fasting and Prayer we use and may use in twenty Cases, but these Cases do not make twenty distinct Ordinances, though we Fast and Pray: It is but one Ordinance. But Separation to the Work of the Ministry is a distinct Ordinance.