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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.
3. The Catholic visible Church, made up of particular visible Churches, is called [Greek or Hebrew], Ephes. 4.4. 1 Cor. 12.12. and we are all Members of that one Body, and the Members are bound to help one another, else 'tis contrary to the Light of Nature, 1 Cor. 12.25. But where do you read that all Corporations and Kingdoms make one Body of Christ.
3. The Catholick visible Church, made up of particular visible Churches, is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Ephes. 4.4. 1 Cor. 12.12. and we are all Members of that one Body, and the Members are bound to help one another, else 'tis contrary to the Light of Nature, 1 Cor. 12.25. But where do you read that all Corporations and Kingdoms make one Body of Christ.
4. I think Pastors and Teachers are Ministers; the Apostle calls himself and others so, Ministers, 1 Cor. 3.5. The Apostles were Catholic Pastors to the Catholic Church *Actu primo & secundo depended upon the Call of no Church to Act in that Church all. Acts of Power, yet Ministers. Hence we say the Ministry†, not •he Pastorship. I then a Man be a Pastor of such a Church, both Actu primo & secundo, yet he is a Minister, and doth habitually actu primo, bear a respect to the Catholic Church, and may perform the Acts of a Minister to another Church that is in want, and cannot at present help themselves, and call upon him to help; for as he is a Minister, that Church which Called him was no Cause of that.