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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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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.
How many thousands of Disciples did belong to this Church of Jerusalem, we cannot tell; but this we find, Acts 4.4. there were five thousand at that time; and Acts 5.14. Multitudes of Men and Women now were added to those five thousand: In the 6 Act. 7. we read the Number of the Disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly: I suppose no Man will say these were such as we read of 2 Act. 5.9. Strangers; if they were, yet it hurts not me, they were all of this Church; and we know Members of Independent Churches in London lived forty Miles distant from them: Here was Prayer, Preaching, Administration of both Sacraments, Election and Ordination of Officers; Terrible Discipline, if I might so call it, upon Ananias and Sapphira. But was all this in one place? No sure; when there were but the three thousand added, they Brake Bread, [Greek or Hebrew]: 1Beza and Grotius speak fully to my purpose as to the distinct places; and that by Breaking of Bread the Lords Supper is intended, as in the 42 v. the Salmur Divines, A Lapide, Dr. Hammond, Dr. Owen, Mr. Baxter, and others whom I mention not, do all agree. Nor do I think there is any Man will say they did all partake of the Lords Supper in one House, at one time; much less then afterwards. Thus was their Preaching,