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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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Dr. Owen hath proved there ought to be many Elders in every Church, 1by Scriptures and Reasons, I think sufficiently.
- 12d. Part of the Church, p. 138.
Soon after the Apostles in the Primitive Churches, Mr. Clarkson in his Discourse against Diocesan Churches [his first Book, p. 5.21.] hath shown there were more Presbyters in every Church than were necessary.
In those Virgin Churches in the Valleys of Piedmont, which were never defiled with Popery, but kept pure from the Apostles days, [where I find Ordination was with Imposition of Hands, contrary to our Men] I read in their low Condition seven Elders made a Classis; they carried on their Government by joint Councils; they had their Consistories, and 140 Pastors heretofore in a Synod.
In those Virgin Churches in the Valleys of Piedmont, which were never desiled with Popery, but kept pure from the Apostles dayes, [where I find Ordination was with Imposition of Hands, contrary to our Men] I read in their low Condition seven Elders made a Classis; they carryed on their Government by joint Councils; they had their Consistories, and 140 Pastors heretofore in a Synod.