A41335:195
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.
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 Auth•itati•• O••i•nation. Our Brethren of Scotland call it, a Medium, of Co•••nicating 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, ⟨p. 19⟩the Act carries Authority in it. By the Imposing their Hands, they do Impose the Charge, the Burden, the Work of the Ministry upon the Person in the Name of the Lord. Persons in Authority do in the Name of the Lord Convey Authority.
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 Auth•itati•• O••i•nation. Our Bre••hren of Scotland call it, a Medim, of Conicating Authity to the Person Orained. 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,