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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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The last time I was with Dr. Owen, discoursing, with him about Church-Government, he was saying to me, I would fain know whether the Government of the House of God be likely to be most prevalent, being carried on by one single Pastor, or by many Elders met together, and Acting in the Name of the Lord? I think the Question may be easily Answered, and in Order to it, I state the Question:
The last time I was with Dr. Owen, discoursing, with him about Church-Government, he was saying to me, I would sain know whether the Government of the House of God be likely to be most prevalent, being carryed on by one single Pastor, or by many Elders met together, and Acting in the Name of the Lord? I think the Question may be easily Answered, and in Order to it, I state the Question:
Quest. Whether unto the right Constitution of a particular Gospel-Church, it be Necessary that all the Officers and Members of the Church do meet together in one place at one time, to Celebrate all the Institutions of Christ?
The Learned Dr. Owen having changed his Opinion from what it was when he wrote his Country Essay for the practice of Church-Government; 1when he would have the extreme of the Division not above eight or ten Miles, so the Centre not more than four or five Miles from any part of it, &c. He now tells us, To manifest that Assemblies of the whole Church, at once and in one place, for the Celebration of Divine Worship, is of the Essence of a Church, without which it hath no real Being, — the Lord appointed the Males which were the Circumcised Church, should appear in one place three times a Year, Exod. 23 14.