A41335:91
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.
Dr. Owen saith, The Church is before Ordinary Ministers.
Answ. First, But is it before the Ministry? Else 'tis nothing.
Secondly, The Proposition is not true, [Greek or Hebrew]; that faithful and laborious Servant of Christ Mr. Eliot [whom I know and honour] Mr. Mahew. Mr. Leverick, with great Labour and Industry, get the Indian Language, and preached to the Indians; they were but ordinary Ministers. God blesseth their Preaching: The Indians some of them are converted, gathered into a Church: Were they a Church before these Ministers? And were they the first Subjects of the Power of the Keys, before these Ministers preached to them?
Secondly, The Proposition is not true, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; that faithful and laborious Servant of Christ Mr. Eliot [whom I know and honour] Mr. Mahew. Mr. Leverick, with great Labour and Industry, get the Indian Language, and preach'd to the Indians; they were but ordinary Ministers. God blesseth their Preaching: The Indians some of them are converted, gathered into a Church: Were they a Church before these Ministers? And were they the first Subjects of the Power of the Keys, before these Ministers preached to them?