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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 find in the beginning of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, when they came newly out of Popery, Imposition of Hands was not judged necessary; 1as I read in the History put out by Mr. Calderwood. That Man of God, Mr. Robert Bruce [whose Name I honour] was not ordained thus, nor any other way, that I can learn, as if there were something in him extraordinary; though I honour the Man, yet we must stick to our Rule, and not Mr. Bruce. 2But afterwards, they tell us, how Ordination is to be performed, viz. by Fasting, Prayer, and Imposition of the Hands of the Eldership.
- 1An. 1560. pag. 26.
- 2An. 1581. pag. 105.
After this, pag. 383. they make it Indifferent.
But at a general Assembly, 1it was ordered, That there be an Uniform Order touching Ordination of Ministers throughout the whole Realm, and that with Imposition of Hands; and thus it holds to this day.
- 1An. 1597. pag. 408.