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…

It hath been objected by some, that 1 Tim: 4. 14. holds ⟨p. 101⟩forth no president for ordinary Presbyteries, because 1. Here is mention of prophecy which was an extraordinary thing, 2. Timothy, was ordained by the laying on of the Apostle Paul his hands, 2. Tim: 1. 6. Lastly Timothy was an Evangelist, and how could a Presbyter ordain an Evangelist?

It hath been objected by some, that 1 Tim: 4. 14. holds ⟨p. 101⟩forth no president for ordinary Presbyteries, because 1. Here is mention of prophesie which was an extraordinary thing, 2. Timothy, was ordained by the laying on of the Apostle Paul his hands, 2. Tim: 1. 6. Lastly Timothy was an Evangelist, and how could a Presbyter ordain an Evangelist?

Answ: 1. Those very things which are objected, to depress the Presbytery, do put upon it so much the more abundant honour. Although prophesies had gone before concerning Timothy, and some extraordinar predictions, 1 Tim: 1. 18. Although likewise the Apostle Paul himself is supposed to have been present, and to have laid on hands at the same time, yet neither the extraordinary prophesies, nor the laying on of the hands of an Apostle, did swallow up, take away or hinder the ordinary power and right of the Presbytery, to be acted and put forth in the ordaining of Timothy, or did exempt Timothy from entering by that ordinary door, and passage, through those ordinary hands of the Presbytery.

Answ: 1. Those very things which are objected, to depresse the Presbyterie, doe put upon it so much the more aboundant honour. Altho prophesies had gone before concerning Timothy, and some extraordinar predictions, 1 Tim: 1. 18. Altho likewise the Apostle Paul himself is supposed to have been present, and to have laid on hands at the sametime, yet neither the extraordinary prophesies, nor the laying on of the hands of an Apostle, did swallow up, take away or hinder the ordinary power and right of the Presbyterie, to be acted and put forth in the ordaining of Timothy, or did exempt Timothy from entring by that ordinary doore, and passage, through those ordinary hands of the Presbytery.