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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 7
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3. Those extraordinary Gifts were indeed at first necessary; (he gives several reasons thereof) one, because of them who could not receive the understanding of an incorporeal Nature; that if afterwards they be not so done, they may be believed by those things which were already done: another, because of the state of the Church. But the greater Gifts (saith he) were to abide for ever; therefore 'tis observable that St. Paul says, that the Gift of Tongues is one of the least and most useless things, a mere sign, and not so much as a sign to a Believer, but to Infidels and Unbelievers.
3. Those extraordinary Gifts were indeed at first necessary; (he gives several reasons thereof) one, because of them who could not receive the understanding of an incorporeal Nature; that if afterwards they be not so done, they may be believed by those things which were already done: another, because of the state of the Church. But the greater Gifts (saith he) were to abide for ever; therefore 'tis observable that St. Paul says, that the Gift of Tongues is one of the least and most useless things, a meer sign, and not so much as a sign to a Believer, but to Infidels and Ʋnbelievers.
4. To every ordinary and perpetual Ministry, at first there were extraordinary Effects, and miraculous Consignations: We find 3000 converted at one Sermon, 5000 at another; and Persons were miraculously cured by Prayer, at the visitation of the Sick; and Devils cast out in the conversion of a Sinner: And now tho we see no such extraordinary Effects, it follows not that the Visitation of the Sick, Preaching, Sermons, &c. are not ordinary and perpetual Ministrations; and therefore to fancy that Invocation of the Holy Spirit, and Imposition of Hands is to cease, when the extraordinary and temporary Contingencies of it are gone, is too trifling a fancy to be put into the balance against so sacred an Institution, relying upon so many Scriptures.