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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.
Our last Annotator Translate the words [Greek or Hebrew], in the 20th. V. for the same thing, not the same place, and I think his Reason is good; and I have wondered that Learned Men should render the words so in Acts 2.44. Dr. Lightfoot saith the words cannot be so rendered, and gives other significations of the words, that they will not prove the Question.
Our last Annotator Translate the words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in the 20th. V. for the same thing, not the same place, and I think his Reason is good; and I have wondered that Learned Men should render the words so in Acts 2.44. Dr. Lightfoot saith the words cannot be so rendered, and gives other significations of the words, that they will not prove the Question.
As for the Church in Ephesus, which is another Example brought, Paul continued there three Years, Acts 20.31. The reason of his stay, a great and effectual door is opened, 1 Cor. 16.8, 9. The Word of God grew mightily, Acts 19.20. It grew so, that they dare venture to burn the Books that were of Value among the Ephesians, before the face of the People, valued at eight hundred Pounds the ⟨p. 27⟩least, Acts 19.19. Both Jews and Gentiles came in, Acts 19.10, 17. And how many Christians have we now in Ephesus? so many as may meet in one room in a private Disciples House. Paul's great door, and his word mightily, had better been spared, for this is but a disgrace to the Text.