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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.
If you ask what he was for a Scholar? two things declared him to be a Scholar; one was this: When Arch-Bishop Land Visited, Mr. Rogers was Summoned to appear, and did so; whether Mr. Rogers did grapple with the Arch-Bishop, I cannot tell, but one that lived in the Town where I now do, being then present at the Court, heard the Arch-Bishop say to him, Mr. Rogers, I acknowledge you to be a better Scholar than my self, but I will make you know your place: And silenced him.
A second thing was this, which I had from a Kinsman of mine, who was of Clare-Hall at the same time, if not the same Year with Mr. Rogers; the Man was a very moderate Episcopal Man, he told me this.
The Arch-Bishop sends down a Coryphaeus [this was the Word he used] to the University of Cambridge, to Challenge the Puritans, and gave his Question accordingly: Great Expectation there was in the University; Mr. Rogers being Fellow of Christs-College, came up Opponent; the first Argument he used was so strong, and he followed it so close, that he Cramped the Respondent, down fell the Ceremonial Champion; the Under-graduates observing it, went to Mr. Rogers, took him out of his Place, and carried him out of the Schools upon their Shoulders; when he was in the Schools yard, a Fellow of St. Johns comes behind him, and gives him a Clap on the Back as he was on their Shoulders, with these Words, Rogers, go home and Hang thy self, thou wilt never dye with more Honour.
The Arch-Bishop sends down a Coryphaus [this was the Word he used] to the University of Cambridge, to Challenge the Puritans, and gave his Question accordingly: Great Expectation there was in the University; Mr. Rogers being Fellow of Christs-Colledge, came up Opponent; the first Argument he used was so strong, and he followed it so close, that he Crampt the Respondent, down fell the Ceremonial Champion; the Under-graduates observing it, went to Mr. Rogers, took him out of his Place, and carried him out of the Schools upon their Shoulders; when he was in the Schools yard, a Fellow of St. Johns comes behind him, and gives him a Clap on the Back as he was on their Shoulders, with these Words, Rogers, go home and Hang thy self, thou wilt never dye with more Honour.