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Laying on of hands upon baptized believers, as such, proved an ordinance of Christ…
Laying on of hands upon baptized believers, as such, proved an ordinance of Christ in answer to Mr. Danvers's former book entitled, A treatise of laying on of hands : with a brief answer to a late book called, A treatise concerning laying on of hands, written by a nameless author / by B.K. ...Laying on of hands upon baptized believers, as such, proved an ordinance of Christ in answer to Mr. Danvers's former book intituled, A treatise of laying on of hands : with a brief answer to a late book called, A treatise concerning laying on of hands, written by a nameless author / by B.K. ...
London : Printed, are to be sold by Benj. Harris ..., 1698
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Laying on of Hands UPON BAPTIZED BELIEVERS, As such, Proved both fr… › Chapter 4
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Calvin, who gives this only as the chief thing intended by the Apostle in this place, from hence draws this remarkable Inference; wherein (saith Mr. Hanmer) he plainly declares his apprehensions concerning the Original and Antiquity of this practice in the Church of Christ: Hic unus locus, &c. This one place (saith he) abundantly testifies that the-original of this Ceremony, viz. Confirmation, or Laying on of hands, flowed from the Apostles, which yet afterwards was turned into a Superstition; as the World almost always degenerates from the best Institutions into Corruption: Wherefore to this day this pure Institution [mark] ought to be retained, but the Superstition to be corrected. Why should Mr. Danvers presume to say these Men confess the Scripture is but a probable ground, and that Tradition and Antiquity is the more certain? And again that there is nothing but a faint insinuation from the Scripture to ground Laying on of hands upon? What Men can speak more fully to a Text?
Calvin, who gives this only as the chief thing intended by the Apostle in this place, from hence draws this remarkable Inference; wherein (saith Mr. Hanmer) he plainly declares his apprehensions concerning the Original and Antiquity of this practice in the Church of Christ: Hic unus locus, &c. This one place (saith he) abundantly testifies that the-original of this Ceremony, viz. Confirmation, or Laying on of hands, flow'd from the Apostles, which yet afterwards was turned into a Superstition; as the World almost always degenerates from the best Institutions into Corruption: Wherefore to this day this pure Institution [mark] ought to be retained, but the Superstition to be corrected. Why should Mr. Danvers presume to say these Men confess the Scripture is but a probable ground, and that Tradition and Antiquity is the more certain? And again that there is nothing but a faint insinuation from the Scripture to ground Laying on of hands upon? What Men can speak more fully to a Text?
But to proceed, he adds Hyperus, who saith, Imposition of hands, Heb. 6.2. was in the confirmation of those that had been baptized and rightly instructed, that they might receive the Holy Spirit. He urgeth several other Persons of the same mind, as Illyricus, Mr. Deering, &c.