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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.
Mr. Eliot and those I mentioned before, Preach to the Indians, God works with their Ministry, brings some to the Faith in Christ, they are formed into a Church, they choose Mr. Eliot *to be their Minister, so then their Election makes Mr. Eliot a Minister; is not this pretty Logic, the Effect give the Essence to the Cause. If the People be visible Saints, they are ordinarily the Effect of the Ministry [tho' not of that particular Minister whom they choose it may be] as Ministers are said to be [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], Workers together with God, 2Instruments in his Hand.
Mr. Eliot and those I mention'd before, Preach to the Indians, God works with their Ministry, brings some to the Faith in Christ, they are formed into a Church, they choose Mr. Eliot *to be their Minister, so then their Election makes Mr. Eliot a Minister; is not this pretty Logick, the Effect give the Essence to the Cause. If the People be visible Saints, they are ordinarily the Effect of the Ministry [tho' not of that particular Minister whom they choose it may be] as Ministers are said to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Workers together with God, 2Instruments in his Hand.
- *Suppose it had been so.
- 21 Cor. 3.6. 2 Cor. 6.1.