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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.
So in the Country Villages we may have many Elders in one particular Church, as he saith there ought to be, else I know not how we shall do for Churches in the Country.
So in the Countrey Villages we may have many Elders in one particular Church, as he saith there ought to be, else I know not how we shall do for Churches in the Countrey.
But to come to the Question: If the whole Church meeting together in one place, and at one time, be essential to a Church, and it hath no real •eing without it, then it must be proved: 1. Either from Divine Precept. Or, 2. From the Examples of the Churches planted by the Apostles. Or, 3. From forcing Reasons drawn from the Ends of Worship.
For the first, I see none named, but Example is the Proof, and the words [Greek or Hebrew], mentioned in the Acts and Corinthians, are the Corner-stone of this Building; five times pious and learned Ames quotes these words: *Dr. Lightfoot hath spoken very clearly to these words against it.
For the first, I see none named, but Example is the Proof, and the words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, mentioned in the Acts and Corinthians, are the Corner-stone of this Building; five times pious and learned Amts quotes these words: *Dr. Lightsoot hath spoken very clearly to these words against it.
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