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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 ...
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A Weighty Question DISCUSSED. › Question 2: Second Question.
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A little Digression. One Bishop in Rome. Was not Rome a Metropolis, where the Seat of the Emperor was? but then it should have been Arch-Bishop; but Cornelius saith one Bishop in that Church [of Rome.] And to this day we call the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, not Arch-Bishop of Rome. Simple Bishop can content Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Cornelius Bishop of Rome, which two Cities caused bloody Battles, which of them should be the Empress of the World. How they then can be esteemed Men of Truth, we may easily judge, that dare Preach and Print, the seven Angels of the seven Churches in Asia were seven Arch-Bishops, when one hundred and sixty Years after those Churches, there was no Arch-Bishop in those great Cities.
A little Digression. One Bishop in Rome. Was not Rome a Metropolis, where the Seat of the Emperor was? but then it should have been Arch-Bishop; but Cornelius saith one Bishop in that Church [of Rome.] And to this day we call the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, not Arch-Bishop of Rome. Simple Bishop can content Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Cornelius Bishop of Rome, which two Cities caused bloody Battels, which of them should be the Empress of the World. How they then can be esteem'd Men of Truth, we may easily judge, that dare Preach and Print, the seven Angels of the seven Churches in Asia were seven Arch-Bishops, when one hundred and sixty Years after those Churches, there was no Arch-Bishop in those great Cities.
But to go on — concerning the Church of Jerusalem, I Consent to what he saith, and let it stand for our Rule to Act by; of it Dr. Owen thus writes, This Church of Jerusalem, thus called and collected out of the Church of the Jews, was the Rule and Pattern of the Disposing of all the Disciples of Christ into Church Societies, in Obedience to his Command throughout the World, Catechis. p. 85. let this stand.
But to goe on — concerning the Church of Jerusalem, I Consent to what he saith, and let it stand for our Rule to Act by; of it Dr. Owen thus writes, This Church of Jerusalem, thus called and collected out of the Church of the Jews, was the Rule and Pattern of the Disposing of all the Disciples of Christ into Church Societies, in Obidience to his Command throughout the World, Catechis. p. 85. let this stand.