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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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But I wish these Men who are so rigid for one place, had but the experience in themselves which I have observed in others. Precious Christians, who had no Coaches nor Horses to carry them, but crazy Bodies, yet longing for the Ordinances, which they might have had, if my Notion might prevail, within two Stones cast, but for this Notion of the One Place they must Travel two Miles; they do so, but when they come home at Night, they are so spent and tired that to Bed they must go, the next day came Complaining to me, they had lost the Benefit of the Ordinances, they could mind nothing but their Pain. Many Christians having infirm Bodies must nor enjoy the Ordinances at all, when they might have them the next door: Hath God no respect to the Bodies of his People?
But I wish these Men who are so rigid for one place, had but the experience in themselves which I have observ'd in others. Precious Christians, who had no Coaches nor Horses to carry them, but crasie Bodies, yet longing for the Ordinances, which they might have had, if my Notion might prevail, within two Stones cast, but for this Notion of the One Place they must Travel two Miles; they do so, but when they come home at Night, they are so spent and tired that to Bed they must goe, the next day came Complaining to me, they had lost the Benefit of the Ordinances, they could mind nothing but their Pain. Many Christians having infirm Bodies must nor enjoy the Ordinances at all, when they might have them the next door: Hath God no respect to the Bodies of his People?
As to the Examples he brings, the Question is, Whether there were no more Christians in these Cities than could meet in one place? if not, then 'tis no more than I have yielded before; for these had many Elders in them to carry on all Church-work, which the Dr. faith ought to be, and is the thing I stand upon, from the Apostolical Constitution of Churches.