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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 1
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Fifthly, When Paul laid his hands on those baptized Believers, Acts 19. the holy Spirit came upon them, and they spake with Tongues, &c. but these Effects follow not now when baptized Believers have hands laid upon them; ⟨p. 10⟩must we therefore lay hands no more? Surely we have no more reason to neglect or lay this aside, than we have all the other Ordinances, considering the like Effects followed them respectively, as well as Laying on of hands: But contrariwise I must needs say, instead of being stumbled, or weakened in my Faith and Practice concerning laying on of hands, from the consideration of those extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit being the Effects that followed once or twice as expressed in the Scripture, that I am thereby abundantly confirmed, and established in it, and that because I find every Gospel-Ordinance and Institution of Christ was in the primitive time more or less confirmed, according to Heb. 2.4. by Signs, Wonders, and divers Miracles, and Gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own Will. And finding this Ordinance of Imposition of Hands, so visibly owned by Jehovah, and wonderfully confirmed by the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit, like as Assembling together, Prayer, Preaching, and Baptizing hath been; it is, I say, of an establishing nature to me. And I see no ground to except against this Ordinance more than any of the other, notwithstanding what ever hath been said or written against it from hence. And because I know it has stumbled many, that the end of laying on of hands, Acts 8.19. was for the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit, I shall be the larger upon this particular, fully to remove and take off this Objection, which in part has already been done. But to proceed, I affirm again that the end of that laying on of Hands, Acts 8.14, 15. and Acts 19.6. was not ⟨p. 11⟩for the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit, and I argue thus: