A brief Reply to a Book called, A Treatise concerning Laying on of Hands.
pp. 105–11030 passages
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A brief Reply to a Book called, A Treatise concerning Laying on of Hands.
Written by a nameless Author, and published in the Year 1691.
THE first Reason (he says) why they cannot own Laying on of Hands on all Believers, is, because there must be a Command, or at least some Example for it, pag. 3.
Answ. We have proved in the preceding Treatise, that we have both a Command and Example for it, if a Command of God, and an Oracle of God, is all one: See Heb. 5.12. That which is an Oracle of God, is a Command of God; but Laying on of Hands, &c. is an Oracle of God, Ergo. And as to Examples, we have them also: see Acts 8. and Acts 19.
2ly. Because (they say) they believe neither our Lord nor his Disciples were under it, pag. 4.
Answ. Our Lord, we have showed, was under it; the Father laid his Hands upon him when he came out of the Water, and thereby sealed him; the Holy Ghost in the likeness of a