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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.
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.
- *Vol. 2. p. 755.
I grant, where there are many Elders and much People dwelling so that they can meet conveniently in one place, to carry on all Church-work, as was the Case of all the Churches we read of in the Gospel, being in Cities, there is a particular Church without any question. So I yield to [Greek or Hebrew].