Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 26. As for 2 Tim. 1.6. it is no certain proof of it. It may be Imposition of hands in Confirmation, or for the first ⟨p. 206⟩giving of the Holy Ghost after Baptism (ordinarily used by the Apostles) that is there spoken of: which also seemeth probable, by the Apostles annexing it to Timothy's Faith, in which he succeeded his Mother and Grandmother; and to the following effects of [the Spirit of Power, and of Love, and of a sound mind,] which are the fruits of Confirming Grace: admonishing h•m, that he be not ashamed of the Testimony of our Lord which is also the fruit of Confirmation. However the probability go, they can give us no certainty, that Paul or any Apostle had an hand in the Ordination here spoken of: when the Text saith that it was [with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery] we must judge of the office by the name: and therefore 1. we are sure that there were Presbyters. 2. And if there were also any of an higher rank, the Phrase encourageth us to believe, that it was as Presbyters, that they imposed hands in Ordination.

Sect. 26. As for 2 Tim. 1.6. it is no certain proof of it. It may be Imposition of hands in Confirmation, or for the first ⟨p. 206⟩giving of the Holy Ghost after Baptism (ordinarily used by the Apostles) that is there spoken of: which also seemeth probable, by the Apostles annexing it to Timothies Faith, in which he succeeded his Mother and Grandmother; and to the following effects of [the Spirit of Power, and of Love, and of a sound mind,] which are the fruits of Confirming Grace: admonishing h•m, that he be not ashamed of the Testimony of our Lord which is also the fruit of Confirmation. However the p•ob•bility go, they can give us no certainty, that Paul or any Apostle had an hand in the Ordination here spoken of: when the Text saith that it was [with the laying on of the hands of the Presb•terie] we must judge of the office by the name: and therefore 1. we are sure that there were Presbyters. 2. And if there were also any of an higher rank, the Phrase encourageth us to believe, that it was as Presbyters, that they imposed hands in Ordination.