A41335:92
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.
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?
Let the Scriptures, in the Languages, that the Spirit of God inspired his Pen-men to write them, be sent to a People who never saw them, nor heard of them. Let this People understand them, believe them, embrace them, give themselves up to them without any Ministry, to translate, to interpret, and to help them to understand and believe; I will allow this People to be the Subjectum Primum, Secundum, Tertium, of all the Power of the Keys, but rot else.