A41335:198
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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After I had done, I met with Mr. Gillesp••s upon the Text, Mis•tl. p. 52. which he saith is a considerable Text against the So•inians and Anabaptists, 1[which this Practice of our Brethren, and crying up Oisted Brethren's Preaching, have not a little strengthened, to the bringing in of Confusion and Disorder into the Church, as we see at this day, to the shame of Reformation] and he gives the sense of the Text as I have done, for Ordination, which in another place he saith must be with Imposition of Hands.
After I had done, I met with Mr. Gillesp••s upon the Text, Mis•tl. p. 52. which he saith is a considerable Text against the So•inians and Anabaptists, 1[which this Practice of our Brethren, and crying up Oisted Brethrens Preaching, have not a little strengthned, to the bringing in of Consusion and Disorder into the Church, as we see at this day, to the shame of Reformation] and he gives the sence of the Text as I have done, for Ordination, which in another place he saith must be with Imposition of Hands.
- 1What work these Gifted Brethren have made in Churches, we see to our shame.
As to his saying that it is a Ceremony now Obsolete:
As to his saying that it is a Coremony now Obso•ete: