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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658
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I.1 For the first Part of the Proposition, I think it may suffice, 1. That Imposition of hands was used in Scripture times, and so used, as may invite us to imitation, but not deter us from it at all. 2. And that it hath been since of ordinary use in the Universal Church, in this very case, so that no other Original of it can be found, but Apostolical; yea we have exceeding probable evidence, that the use of it was never interrupted, from the days of the Apostles, down to the Reformation. 3. Nor is it laid aside in many of the Reformed Churches. So that you will find that as it's easy to prove Lawful, ⟨p. 97⟩so it's more likely to be a Divine Institution, Necessary Necessitate praecepti, then to be unlawful.
I.1 For the first Part of the Proposition, I think it may suffice, 1. That Imposition of hands was used in Scripture times, and so used, as may invite us to imitation, but not deter us from it at all. 2. And that it hath been since of ordinary use in the Universal Church, in this very case, so that no other Original of it can be found, but Apostolical; yea we have exceeding probable evidence, that the use of it was never interrupted, from the daies of the Apostles, down to the Reformation. 3. Nor is it laid aside in many of the Reformed Churches. So that you will find that as it's easie to prove Lawful, ⟨p. 97⟩so it's more likely to be a Divine Institution, Necessary Necessitate praecepti, then to be unlawfull.
- 1Grotius Epist. 154. p. 377, 378. Mihi legenda compertum est manuum impositionem caeremeniam fuisse Juda•cam, usurpatam, non Lege ullâ Divinâ, sed moribus, ubicunque precandi pro aliquo causa quaedam emerserat. Tunc enim Judaei orabant ut sic Dei efficacia esset super illum, sicut manus, efficaciae symbolum, ei imponebantur. Hunc quemque morem ut Synagogae pleraque secutus est Christus, sive pueris benedicendum fuit, sive aegrotis adhibenda sanatio addita, ut semper honos Patri haberetur, prece. Eodem more non ex ullo praecepto, est quod Apostoli manus imposuere iis, quibus ignoto ante hac jure dona conspicua Sancti Spiritus precando conferebant: quod Presbyteri eundem ritum adhibuere non tantum in allegendis presbiteris, puta Timotheo,