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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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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.
That Diminishing from the Word is as great a Sin as Addition to the Word, none can deny; the Text is expresly 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.
Grant it, that Imposition of Hands in Ordination be but a Ceremony, yet it is God's Ceremony, appointed first by his express Command, 1