A41335:87
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 ...
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That it belongs to Teaching Elders, Act. 13.3. Tim. 1.4.14. I prove it.
Here the People rise up, and claim a Right; by Virtue of their being the [Greek or Hebrew], of the Power of the Keys: And I have seen it practised. Two Private Persons imposed their Hands upon an Ancient grave Divine, who was ordained, I believe, near 40 Years before in England, &c. They gave him the Essence, in giving him a Call, and so they gave him the Adjunct. And this being the Opinion of these men here, I prefer their Ordination, with Imposition of Hands, and would own him for a Gospel Minister, before them whom you ordain [as you suppose] without Imposition: And if Ordination be no more than Prayer and Fasting, what need of you [according to the Principles of Independency] in another Church. It is not Prayer, Preaching, and Fasting. Tho' I grant Preaching is very comely at such an Ordinance; yet Preaching is not Ingredient into the Ordination: The People can Fast and Pray as well as you. I observed, while the hands of these private Persons were upon the Head of their Pastor, one of them made such a Prayer as might become any Minister, it was so apposite to the business in hand, that I could but wonder at it; and I believe it was his own Composing.
Here the People rise up, and claim a Right; by Virtue of their being the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of the Power of the Keys: And I have seen it practised. Two Private Persons imposed their Hands upon an Ancient grave Divine, who was ordained, I believe, near 40 Years before in England, &c. They gave him the Essence, in giving him a Call, and so they gave him the Adjunct. And this being the Opinion of these men here, I preser their Ordination, with Imposition of Hands, and would own him for a Gospel Minister, before them whom you ordain [as you suppose] without Imposition: And if Ordination be no more than Prayer and Fasting, what need of you [according to the Principles of Independency] in another Church. It is not Prayer, Preaching, and Fasting. Tho' I grant Preaching is very comely at such an Ordinance; yet Preaching is not Ingredient into the Ordination: The People can Fast and Pray as well as you. I observed, while the hands of these private Persons were upon the Head of their Pastor, one of them made such a Prayer as might become any Minister, it was so apposite to the business in hand, that I could but wonder at it; and I believe it was his own Composing.