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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
CHAP. VI.
Whether any other but a Minister, lawfully called and ordained, may administer the Sacraments, Baptism and the Lords supper.
Whether any other but a Minister, lawfully called and ordained, may administer the Sacraments, Baptisme and the Lords supper.
The Socinians and the Erastian Crutch-maker before mentioned, so plead against the necessity of Ordination, that they held it lawful and free to gifted persons not ordained, not only to preach, but to administer the Sacraments whether they extend this to women as well as men, I know not. Peradventure they will borrow from the Pagans those she priests whom Gellius out of Cicero, calls Antistitas, not Antistites, or happily they hold with the old Pepuzians, that women may both preach and administer the Sacraments, at least, if they may not speak in the Church, (because that is forbidden, 1 Cor. 14. 32. although some are so bold as to restrict that prohibition to married women, whereof they think they have some colour from the context) that yet they may both preach and administer the Sacraments in private places. And if there be no more necessary to one that preacheth or ministereth the Sacraments, but only gifts and abilities, how can they avoid to allow gifted women, as well as gifted men to perform these holy things?
THe Socinians and the Erastian Crutch-maker before mentioned, so plead against the necessity of Ordination, that they held it lawfull and free to gifted persons not ordained, not onely to preach, but to administer the Sacraments whether they extend this to women as well as men, I know not. Peradventure they will borrow from the Pagans those shee priests whom Gellius out of Cicero, cals Antistitas, not Antistites, or happilie they hold with the old Pepuzians, that women may both preach and administer the Sacraments, at least, if they may not speak in the Church, (because that is forbidden,