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…

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.

2. 'Tis not certain, that either the prophetical predictions concerning Timothy, (which the Apostle calls [Greek or Hebrew], praegress as, or quae praecesserunt) or the laying on of Pauls hands, was at the same time with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery. But whether these things were done together, or at several times, 'tis very observable, that to these the Apostle prefixeth [Greek or Hebrew] by, but to the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, [Greek or Hebrew] with, 1 Tim: 1. 6. that thou stir up the gift which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands. 1 Tim: 4. 14. the gift which was given thee by prophecy: then he addeth with (not by) the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery: By this change of the phrase on purpose intimating, that the prophecy and laying on of Pauls hands, were things extraordinary, because by these the gift, aptitude, and ability of parts, or the [Greek or Hebrew] was given to Timothy, but the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, was according to the ordinary rule then and there