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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
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.
As to his saying that it is a Ceremony now Obsolete:
As to his saying that it is a Coremony now Obso•ete:
I thought the Word Obsolete did connote a thing out of Date, out of Use, worn thread-bare; but Imposition of Hands in Ordination, hath been used in the Jewish Church and the Christian Church in all Ages to this day, among all Churches; so that if it be obsolete, it must be only among some few Independents of yesterdays standing, and is this sufficient to make it obsolete?
I thought the Word Obtolete did connote a thing out of Date, out of Use, worn thred-bare; but Imposition of Hands in Ordination, hath been used in the Jewish Church and the Christian Church in all Ages to this day, among all Churches; so that if it be obsolete, it must be only among some few Independents of yesterdays standing, and is this sufficient to make it obsolete?
One Word about Popular Election, because I see it is that which gives the Essence to a Minister in some Mens Opinion.