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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 3
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Showing who the Ancients are, and of their Credit and Authority who have born witness to Laying on of Hands.
Shewing who the Antients are, and of their Credit and Authority who have born witness to Laying on of Hands.
Admit we grant what Mr. Danvers speaks concerning Dionysius the Areopagite, and the Decretal Epistles of the first Popes, to be impious Lies and Forgeries, shall we therefore conclude they are all suborned Witnesses. viz. the Ancients who have written concerning Laying on of Hands? Surely many of the Fathers who have born witness thereunto, are generally received, and their Authority approved as the best of human Writers: What say you to Tertullian, shall we call him a Knight of the Post? Take his Testimony: (A.D. 200. de Bapt. c. 6.) Manus imponitur per benedictionem, advocans & invitans Spiritum Sanctum; tunc ille Sanctissimus Spiritus super emundata, & benedicta Corpora, libens à Patre descendit. After Baptism the Hand is imposed by Blessing, and calling and inviting of the Holy Spirit, who willingly descends from the Father on the Bodies that are cleansed and blessed. Moreover he saith:1 It is the fleshly, or outward act of Baptism, that we are dipped in water; the spiritual effects, that we are freed from our Sins: Then follows Laying on of hands, the Dispenser inviting ⟨p. 29⟩the Spirit of God by Prayer. And being cleansed by Baptismal Water (saith he) we are disposed for the Holy Spirit, under the Hands of the Angel of the Church. And further, speaking concerning the happy state of the Church in this day, he saith, (de Script. cap. 36.) She believeth in God, she signs with Water (that is, baptizeth) she clothes with the Spirit, (viz. by Imposition of hands) she feeds with the Eucharist, and exhorts to Martyrdom; and against this Order or Institution she receives no Man.
ADmit we grant what Mr. Danvers speaks concerning Dionysius the Areopagite, and the Decretal Epistles of the first Popes, to be impious Lies and Forgeries, shall we therefore conclude they are all suborned Witnesses. viz. the Antients who have written concerning Laying on of Hands? Surely many of the Fathers who have born witness thereunto, are generally received, and their Authority approved as the best of human Writers: What say you to Tertullian, shall we call him a Knight of the Post? Take his Testimony: (A.D. 200. de Bapt. c. 6.) Manus imponitur per benedictionem, advocans & invitans Spiritum Sanctum; tunc ille Sanctissimus Spiritus super emundata, & benedicta Corpora, libens à Patre descendit. After Baptism the Hand is imposed by Blessing, and calling and inviting of the Holy Spirit, who willingly descends from the Father on the Bodies that are cleansed and blessed. Moreover he saith: