A41335:193
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.
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?
Though it be but a Ceremony, yet being God's Institution and Command, there is,
1. Necessitas Praecepti anne••ed to it, and it is Disobedience to his Institution to Omit it. The Spirit is pleased three times to set forth the whole Work of Ordination by this Ceremony [as you call it] alone.
2. There is ••c•ssitas Medii, in this sense, viz To the sending forth of a Person to Preach and Administer all Ordinances in God's House with Authority. Dr. Owen rightly calls it, The Symbol of Authitati Oination. Our Brethren of Scotland call it, a Medium, of Conicating Authority to the Person Ordained. When the Presbytery Praying and Imposing Hands, do in the Name of the Lord Jesus, the King of his Church, Separate a Man to the Work of the Ministry,