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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
A Weighty Question DISCUSSED. › Question 2: Second Question.
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.
Thus far my Author.
That we may understand one another clearly: Suppose we then that all the Christians in England, that dwell in their several Parishes, were such as deserved the Name of Visible Saints; these meet every Lords-Day in their Parish-Church [as they call it] to Worship God, where there is but one Pastor. [Lecturers and Readers are but in few Parishes in the Country, nor have they any Power in Church-Government.]
That we may understand one another clearly: Suppose we then that all the Christians in England, that dwell in their several Parishes, were such as deserved the Name of Visible Saints; these meet every Lords-Day in their Parish-Church [as they call it] to Worship God, where there is but one Pastor. [Lecturers and Readers are but in few Parishes in the Countrey, nor have they any Power in Church-Government.]
1. Are these the particular Churches you mean, by the words Parochial and Congregational? I suppose my Brother means so.