A41335:248
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.
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.
3ly. When they were in Jerusalem, the Metropolis of the Kingdom, how did their eating the Passover in a thousand, it may be two thousand several Houses, answer our Partaking of the Lords Supper at one Table in one particular Church? we should have so many Churches: The other Feasts were proper to them.
Nor could they meet in the Court all at one time to Worship God, there being in David's time, 1one Million, five hundred and seventy thousand men [besides the Tribes of Benjamin and L••i] that drew Sword.