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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.
SECT. II. The Definition of Ordination.
AS to the word Ordination, I think Greg, de Valen. speaks right; 1the word is taken from the Effect of that Ordinance, Quia per Ordinationem aliquis in gradu quodam atque Ordine certo Ecclestasticae Dignitatis Constituit•r. Some are Pastors, some are Teachers, some a•e Ruling Elders, some are Deacons, they are set or placed, [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Cor. 1.28. in such an Order in the House of God, by Ordination. Thus it hath passed for Currant many hundred Years in the Church, till yesterday, Election gave the Essence, and Ordination was but an Adjunct. I desire my Brethren but to give me that Adjunct, according to the Word of God, and we shall unite, tho' we differ in our Logical Notions.
AS to the word Ordination, I think Greg, de Valen. speaks right; 1the word is taken from the Effect of that Ordinance, Quia per Ordinationem aliquis in gradu quodam atque Ordine certo Ecclestasticae Dignitatis Constituit•r. Some are Pastors, some are Teachers, some a•e Ruling Elders, some are Deacons, they are set or placed, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1 Cor. 1.28. in such an Order in the House of God, by Ordination. Thus it hath passed for Currant many hundred Years in the Church, till yesterday, Election gave the Essence, and Ordination was but an Adjunct. I desire my Brethren but to give me that Adjunct, according to the Word of God, and we shall unite, tho' we differ in our Logical Notions.