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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.
I did not think that Place being but a Subject, and Time an Adjunct, should be Essential to a Church; yea, so as no real Being without them.
Neither am I satisfied with this Proof: For their Meetings three times a Year, were to perform three particular Services, proper to the Jews, and that but once a Year, and that day the Law appointed, and no other, we have no such Appointments under the Gospel: The Lord's Supper which answers the Passover, was Celebrated every Lords-Day in the Primitive Churches.
Neither am I satisfied with this Proof: For their Meetings three times a Year, were to perform three particular Services, proper to the Jews, and that but once a Year, and that day the Law appointed, and no other, we have no such Appointments under the Gospel: The Lord's Supper which answers the Paslover, was Celebrated every Lords-Day in the Primitive Churches.
2ly. Only the Males appeared then: We think Women and Children as well as then Children, are Members of the Church, and ought to appear with the Males, to Worship God every Lords-Day.