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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 5
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. V.
Showing how, and upon what ground the Baptized Churches do assert Laying on of hands.
Shewing how, and upon what ground the Baptized Churches do assert Laying on of hands.
HOW those learned Persons he speaks of have writ and asserted Laying on of hands from that Text, I shall leave to the judicious Reader, by considering the Instances forecited; and that they hold it also as necessary to Church-Communion, might I presume be made manifest, but that is not our present work, but rather to make the thing it self appear to be an Ordinance of ⟨p. 40⟩Jesus Christ; and in order to this, those two Particulars, or Principles Mr. Danvers lays down we will consider, viz.
First, That to every Ordinance of Christ there must be some plain positive word of Institution to confirm it; and not only human Tradition, or far-fetched Consequences and Inferences, such as the many Volumes written of Circumcision, and federal Holiness, to assert Infants Baptism to be an Ordinance of Christ, which no ordinary Capacity can reach, and only Men of Parts and Abilities can trace, and follow in their Meanders.