A41335:212
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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That a People must subject themselves to a Minister, and perform all the Duties the Word of Go I require to a Minister, and yet not choose him, is Tyranny fit for Rome, not for the Church of Christ.
That a People must subject themselves to a Minister, and persorm all the Duties the Word of Go I require to a Minister, and yet not choose him, is Tyranny fit for Rome, not for the Church of Christ.
This Notion of Popular Election giving the Essence to a Minister, is the ground of that Witty Distinction of a Minister's Preaching; if he Preach to his People that Chose him, then he Preaches as a Minister, but if in another Church, then as a Cisted Brother. And hence they must not Administer the Sacraments in another Church, tho' there be need, and the Church desire; he must not Act as a Minister beyond them who gave him the Essence of a Minister: And this they would prove or illustrate from a Mayor of a Corporation, who out of his Corporation hath no Power.
This Notion of Popular Election giving the Essence to a Minister, is the ground of that Witty Distinction of a Minister's Preaching; if he Preach to his People that Chose him, then he Preaches as a Minisler, but if in another Church, then as a Cisted Brother. And hence they must not Administer the Sacraments in another Church, tho' there be need, and the Church desire; he must not Act as a Minister beyond them who gave him the Essence of a Minister: And this they would prove or illustrate from a Mayor of a Corporation, who out of his Corporation hath no Power.
Ans. 1. In a Kingdom or Corporation 'tis sufficient there be a People first, of whom neither the King nor the Mayor are Causes in the least; in the Church 'tis not sufficient there be a People, but such a People, viz. Visible Saints, of whom God hath Ordained the Ministry, to be in his Hand the Instrument to make them such. So that the Ministry is first, and an Instrumental Cause to make them a People as such.