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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.
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Fourthly, Suppose the Pastor be foully scandalized by some of his Church, one or more, how shall the Government be carried on? shall he be Plaintiff and Judge in his own Case? I have known a Case where a Pastor had great Offence given, I propounded the Case to Dr. Owen*, whether that Pastor should proceed according to Matth. 18.15, 16? he told me by no means, when he heard my Reason. We shall meet with hard Cases if we come to set to Government indeed.
Fourthly, Suppose the Pastor be foully scandalized by some of his Church, one or more, how shall the Government be carryed on? shall he be Plaintiff and Judge in his own Case? I have known a Case where a Pastor had great Offence given, I propounded the Case to Dr. Owen*, whether that Pastor should proceed according to Matth. 18.15, 16? he told me by no means, when he heard my Reason. We shall meet with hard Cases if we come to set to Government indeed.
- *And Mr. Faldo.
Fifthly, Suppose the Pastor himself grow scandalous, how shall Government be carried on now?
Sixthly, Good Men and Ministers are subject to Passions and Infirmities, whence it is not fit the Government of the Church should be Committed to One alone.