A41335:189
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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SECT. IV.
After I had done with this Brother, there came to my Hand a little Book, put out by another Brother, who writes thus, All Church-Officers are made by Ordination, and Ordained alike; [is there no difference between Acts 6.6. and Acts; 3.3?] and that Ordination is not Imposition of Hands; and if the most be made of it, it's but a Ceremony annexed, which is now obsolete.
AFter I had done with this Brother, there came to my Hand a little Book, put out by another Brother, who writes thus, All Church-Officers are made by Ordination, and Ordained alike; [is there no difference between Acts 6.6. and Acts; 3.3?] and that Ordination is not Imposition of Hands; and if the most be made of it, it's but a Ceremony annexed, which is now obsolete.
It's But a Ceremony: Whose Ceremony is it? Did Man or God Institute it? If it be God's, methinks it is not com••y for a Creature to cast a slighting But upon any of his Institutions. What was the whole Ceremonial Law? yea, What is Water in Baptism, Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper, setting by the Authority of him who did Institute them? the Image of a King stamped upon a Farthing, tho' but a Farthing, who dare refuse it?