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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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4. Scripture fully proveth that Laying on of hands, is a thing to be continued to other Uses, where the reason of continuance is the same: Therefore we are not to judge it ceased as to this use. This Text last named, shows that it is a standing, or continued thing; and if for Absolution, then for Confirmation; and if for Ordination, then for both the other. ⟨p. 124⟩So 1 Tim. 4. 14. showeth, that the Presbytery did lay hands on Timothy in Ordination: And if it cease not to this, it ceaseth not to other continuing uses.
4. Scripture fully proveth that Laying on of hands, is a thing to be continued to other Ʋses, where the reason of continuance is the same: Therefore we are not to judge it ceased as to this use. This Text last named, shews that it is a standing, or continued thing; and if for Absolution, then for Confirmation; and if for Ordination, then for both the other. ⟨p. 124⟩So 1 Tim. 4. 14. sheweth, that the Presbytery did lay hands on Timothy in Ordination: And if it cease not to this, it ceaseth not to other continuing uses.
This much from Scripture, for Imposition of hands, is more then Nothing, though it may not be so full as you expected: But on the contrary, Nothing is brought to prove it unlawful, that's worth the mentioning.
This much from Scripture, for Imposition of hands, is more then Nothing, though it may not be so full as you expected: But on the contrary, Nothing is brought to prove it unlawfull, that's worth the mentioning.