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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.
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.
If we suffered then for the Authority of the Scriptures, while Men added to them, we will not give away their Authority now while men diminish from them. Where shall we End if this be the Practice?
As to the Second Question, I seek Light.
1. To have but one Pastor or Teaching Elder in a Church, agrees neither with the Holy Scripture nor sound Reason. Good Mr. Faldo was troubled about it, I understand by his Letter to me.