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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PROP. XIII. Ministerial Imposition of hands, in Confirmation and the foredescribed sort of Absolution, is a Lawful and Convenient action, or Ceremony, and ordinarily to be used, as it hath been of old by the Universal Church. But yet it is not of such Necessity, but that we ⟨image 11⟩must dispense in this Ceremony with scrupulous Consciences, that cannot be satisfied to submit to it: Imposition of hands is allowed in Scripture to be used Generally by Spiritual Superiors, to signify their Desire, that the Blessing, Gift or Power, may be conferred on the Inferior, for which they have a call to mediate. Proved. Particularly, 1. We find in Scripture a Blessing of Church-members, with laying on of hands. 2. And that the Holy Ghost is in a special manner promised to Believers, over and above that measure of the Spirit, which caused them to Believe. 3. And that Prayer, with laying on of hands, was the outward means to be used by Christs Ministers, for procuring this, or investing them of it. 4. And that this was not a temporary, but fixed Ordinance. All proved. How the Holy Ghost is given before Faith, and after Faith, and how sealed in Baptism, and how not? What Hope of the success of Imposition, with Prayer ⟨image 11⟩for the spirit. Scripture and Antiquity for it. Reasons for the non-necessity of it to the the scrupulous.
PROP. XIII. Ministerial Imposition of hands, in Confirmation and the foredescribed sort of Absolution, is a Lawfull and Convenient action, or Ceremony, and ordinarily to be used, as it hath been of old by the Universal Church. But yet it is not of such Necessity, but that we ⟨image 11⟩must dispence in this Ceremony with scrupulous Consciences, that cannot be satisfied to submit to it: Imposition of hands is allowed in Scripture to be used Generally by Spiritual Superiours, to signifie their Desire, that the Blessing, Guift or Power, may be conferred on the Inferiour, for which they have a call to mediate. Proved. Particllarly, 1. We find in Scripture a Blessing of Church-members, with laying on of hands. 2. And that the Holy Ghost is in a special manner promised to Believers, over and above that measure of the Spirit, which caused them to Believe. 3. And that Praier, with laying on of hands, was the outward means to be used by Christs Ministers, for procuring this, or investing them of it. 4. And that this was not a temporary, but fixed Ordinance. All proved. How the Holy Ghost is given before Faith, and after Faith, and how sealed in Baptism, and how not? What Hope of the success of Imposition, with Praier