A41335:99
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
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I can but take notice of Dr. Lightfoot, 1that learned Man and Son of the Church of England, living in the times of our Persecution, who denies Bishops to be Successors to the Apostles. And that it is an improbable and unconstant Inference, that because there was Subordination between the Apostles and Philip. (in Acts 8.) that therefore the like is to be reputed betwixt Bishops and other Ministers.
I can but take notice of Dr. Lightfoot, 1that learned Man and Son of the Church of England, living in the times of our Persecution, who denys Bishops to be Successors to the Apostles. And that it is an improbable and unconstant Inference, that because there was Subordination between the Apostles and Philip. (in Acts 8.) that therefore the like is to be reputed betwixt Bishops and other Ministers.
- 11 Vol. p. 787, 788.
I have done with this; I only aimed at this; Teaching Elders may Ordain, and we have Divine Authority for it in the Texts before mentioned: These we are sure are Officers in the Church by Christs Institution; The Lutherans have Bishops, yet they deny any inequality jure Divino, between Bishops and Presbyters, quoad Potestatem Jurisdictionis. Therefore Gerrard answering Bellarmin appropriating Ordination to Bishops saith, 1there is not one tittle in all God's Book, that Ordination by Bishops should be valid, but by Presbyters should be Null.
- 1De Minist. Eccles. p. 261.