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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
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 End of my publishing this Treatise, my Conscience bears me Witness before the Lord, I aim but at these two things.
1. To remove that Block, if I could, which hinders our hearty Union: I know it offends many of our Brethren; besides, it gives advantage to them who observe our Practices to speak against us, and that justly.
2. To keep up the Authority of the Scriptures, which are so plain in this Case, that if we will own Ordination without Imposition of Hands to be Due Ordination, then the Authority of five or six Scriptures is set by.
I know no other ground of our Sufferings, but our maintaining of the Authority of the Scriptures, while Men would be Imposing upon us such things in the House and Worship of God, which if the Questions were truly stated [which they never did] have no footing or ground in the Holy Scriptures, but were their Addition to them, as if the Wisdom of God in the Scriptures were defective.