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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.
It is true, our Pastor with his People may truly be called a Church; as that Woman who had no Arms, but held be Pen between her Toes, and so wrote, […] have seen of her Writing […] may well be said to be Animal rationale, a r••io••• Creature; but had God made the W••an so at first, the Woman had not been a […] to Man So here is a Company of Visible Stints, one Pa••or, here is Preaching, Prayer, Administration of Sacraments, and in some Cases Exercise of Discipline, so that it is a true Church, but not such a Church as the Apostles sent by Christ did Constitute, […] to answer all ends of a Church; ⟨p. 24⟩'tis imperfect, defective, and our Duty is to write after that Copy the Apostles of Christ have set us.
It is true, our Pastor with his People may truely be called a Church; as that Woman who had no Arms, but held bee Pen between her Toes, and so wrote, 〈…〉 have seen of her Writing 〈…〉 may well be said to be Animal rationale, a r••io••• Creature; but had God made the W••an so at first, the Woman had not been a 〈…〉 to Man So here is a Company of V••ible Stints, one Pa••or, here is Preaching, Prayer, Administration of Sacraments, and in some Cases Excresse of Discipline, so that it is a true Church, but not such a Church as the Aposlles sent by Christ did Con••itute, 〈…〉 to answer all ends of a Church; ⟨p. 24⟩'tis imperfect, defective, and our Duty is to write after that Copy the Apostles of Christ have set us.