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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.
As to the Examples which are brought, Mede and Fuller, Men of great Learning, tell us, that in the first Century, Christians had a room Dedicated and Appropriated to the Worship of God, [what their Design is I leave] yet they tell us it was but a room in some private Disciples House: Nor in the second Century had they public Places to meet in, say our Homilies against Idolatry, lib. 2. p. 66.
As to the Examples which are brought, Mede and Fuller, Men of great Learning, tell us, that in the first Century, Christians had a room Dedicated and Appropriated to the Worship of God, [what their Design is I leave] yet they tell us it was but a room in some private Disciples House: Nor in the second Century had they publick Places to meet in, say our Homilies against Idolatry, lib. 2. p. 66.
The Lord tells Paul, Acts 18.10. I have much People in Corinth: How much? so much as may meet in one place in a private Disciple's House, when their Tables for their Love-Feasts, &c. are set: This is much honour to the Text.
Several of the Fathers understand the word Church, in 1 Corinth. 11.18. to be meant the place where the Church met; Contin•ns pro Continento, and I think it may be so well understood, [Greek or Hebrew], these were the Church of the believing Corinthians, that met together [Greek or Hebrew], in the Church. The Church here is opposed to their own Houses, v. 22. then I know nothing against it but [Greek or Hebrew], in the 14 chap. 34. may be so understood, Let your Women keep silence in the Churches; not in the Church, as in the 18th. V. but Churches; so that they met in more places than one, in Corinth, yet but one Church,