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A57271	Laying on of hands asserted: or, A plain discovery of the truth thereof under those several considerations, minded in the New Testament. 1. Upon persons for healing: with a brief discovery of that ordinance of Christ, (to wit) anointing with oile. 2. Upon persons to office. 3. Upon believers, baptized, as such: and that principle of Christs doctrine cleared, for their obedience: with objections answered to each particular. To which is annexed, a confutation of four chapters written by some person, or persons, in opposition to this principle of the doctrine of Christ, (to wit) laying on of hands upon believers baptized, as such; wherein the weakness of their reasons against the truth, is plainly discovered, and the truth further asserted, and vindicated. By VVilliam Rider, servant to the Church of Christ.	Rider, William, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1444A; ESTC R217997	59,976	201

the Spirit is made good unto poor souls And this promise of the Spirit the Apostle doth annex unto faith and Baptisme as the right and portion of every believing obedient soul Acts 2. 38. Repent and be Baptized for the Remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit From which Scriptures it is manifest that the promise of the Spirit is made unto believers Baptized as such and therefore the Apostle in the 39 vers. doth apply it unto believers Baptized as such as their right and portion For the promise is unto you and to your Children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Which promise of God in general was the ground of the Apostles assurance of faith in this particular that God would give his Spirit in this his own appointment to his people So that a better ground to Act upon in any way or service of God we cannot have then the Word and promise of God is Therefore in the next place for your incouragement in this Ordinance consider these few things obedience to God is First that which makes a soul capable of knowing the mind of God therefore saith our Saviour to the Jews If you will do his will you shall know of the Doctrine 2. Obedience unto Christ is that whereby believers do enter friendship with the Lord Jesus Christ even as by their profession they do enter battle or wage war with the greatest Enemy Even the Dragon spoken of in Rev. 12. 17. who is there said to make war with the Woman and the Remnant of her seed which keep the commands of God and have the Testimony of Iesus Why so I say they do enter by their obedience unto Christ the greatest friendship that possible can be in the World Iohn 15. 14. You are my friends saith Christ if you do whatsoever I command you 3. There is much incouragement to this duty from the end of this Ordinance The Spirit of God is that the soul stands in continual need of yea the usefulness of the Spirit of God is very much discovered First in that it is the Teacher of the Saints the first Epistle of Iohn 2. 27. But the anointing which you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the anointing teacheth you Why it is the office of the Holy Spirit to be the Teacher of Gods people Iohn 14. 26. But the Comforter which is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you Secondly as he is their Teacher so he is their Comforter yea and their Remembrancer as in this 26 vers. So likewise he is their Guide and their Leader Gal. 5. 18. so he is their strength Ephes. 3. 16. yea by the Spirit they have boldness at the Throne of grace Gal. 4. 6. Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father So also it is their assistance at the Throne of grace Rom. 8. 26. saith the Apostle We know not what to pray for as we ought but the Spirit helpeth our infirmities Oh! how useful is the Spirit of God unto poor souls it 's a quickning Spirit and therein also it is very useful the people of God are apt to deadness and coldness in the things of God therefore saith the Apostle Rom. 8. 11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Christ from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken your mortal bodyes by his Spirit that dwelleth in you Again it 's by the Spirit that we must mortifie corruption the deeds of the body as in the 13 vers. Many other particulars may be minded wherein the usefulness of the Spirit of God doth consist therefore let these considerations incourage us to wait upon God in this his way 4. We have incouragement to wait upon God in his way even in this Ordinance and that from the general promises in the Scripture Gal. 3. 16. 2 Cor. 1. 20. Luke 11. 13. 5. A fifth ground of incouragement may be drawn from the Reasons why the Spirit of God is given forth unto poor souls and that first from the souls being in Covenant with the Lord for among the many precious promises of the new Covenant this you shall finde to be one Ezek. 36. 27. I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them this Reason the Apostle also Renders Gal. 4. 6. Because you are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son c. Secondly from souls obedience the promise is made unto such Acts 2. 38. 5. 32. such as walk in obedience shall certainly be partakers of the Spirit of promise 6. Another ground of incouragement I shall mention may be taken from the Necessity of the Spirits being given with it's gifts and fruits amongst the people of God and that may be 1. Either first for the Glory of God 1 Cor. 12. 3. Iohn 4. 14. Rom. 12. 11. 2. For the general good of the people of God according to these Scriptures 1 Cor. 12. 7. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal and so he goes on discovering in the 8 9 10. vers. the several gifts and fruits of the Spirit from whence proceeds the usefulness of the members of the body of Christ one unto another the Spirit of God dividing to every man severally as he will as in the 11. vers. So that the Eye cannot say unto the hand I have no need of thee Neither the head to the feet I have no need of thee vers. 21. and the Reason is given vers. 25. that there should be no schisme or division in the body but that the members should have the same care one of another read also 14. Chapt. 12 vers. and Ephes. 4. 12. 3. For our particular good and help according to these Scriptures Iud. 20. 1 Pet. 1. 22. Gal. 5. 5. and the 16. Therefore now let these incourage you to make use of that means God hath appointed even this Ordinance wherein his people were made partakers of his Spirit Query But now some do Question What grounds we have that practise laying on of hands to separate from those who are Baptized for say they could you have Communion with us we could with you Answ. To which I answer and that first Considering the frames of your Spirits your denial of the truth calling it error and delusion a Doctrine from beneath an invention of the Devil that which is our own tradition a post we would set up by the posts of God that for which we have no better ground then the Common-prayer-book A new administration which never was either taught or commanded by Christ in all the new Testament

are good men that I have Communion with such among whom I have found much comfort therefore I cannot withdraw from them 1. We may take notice as this is an Objection made by some amongst the Baptized people so likewise by some that are Baptized who walk with the Independents so called O say they they are good men and we walk lovingly together therefore we cannot withdraw from them not considering that in this they have no rule of Christ and that God never gave unto persons such Liberty of loving each other as that thereby his wayes and truths should be rejected and neglected by them 2. To the Objection I answer that by this thou doest discover how little thy love is to the Lord Jesus Christ and his wayes and how low an esteem thou hast of them that thou preferrest thy love to the Creature before thy love to thy Creator It is true it is that which is thy duty to love those with whom thou hast Communion yea thy Enemies but in this thy loving of them thou must know that thou art to walk according to the Law or rule of Christ towards them for thy love towards them must be subordinate to thy love unto God and his truth and to this purpose Christ speaks Mat. 16. Luke 14. 26. that if any man loved Father or Mother more then him he is not worthy of him yea if a man doth not hate his own life if once it come in Competition with Christ or any one of his Laws that he can rather part with truth then deny his life he cannot be Christs Disciple Thou oughtest to praise thy duty in its place and to perform it but if once it come in Competition with Christ or his truth that thou must either suffer the truth of Christ to fall or else be accounted of by some that thou hast little love in thee towards them I say if thou preferrest thy love towards them before the truth that notwithstanding Christ calls upon thee to be a follower of him yet thou wilt not because it may make a breach in thy love towards them thou discoverst thy self to have little love in thee towards Christ and that thou art mistaken in thy right loving of them For thou canst not better love them then to be faithful unto God wherein thou wilt give them a good example for that which is thy duty in this particular ought also to be theirs if so convinced of the truth as thou art Especially in the consideration of this that there are several persons amongst them that have Apostatized from this truth and Doctrine of Christ that have declared for it and have been obedient unto Christ therein but now deny it and are great opposers of it which if thou hadst not ground from the Scripture to maintain separation from them upon any other account thou couldst not according to order Communicate with them Object But say some I dare not deny them to be a Church of Christ as they say you do and therefore they will charge me as they have done others that I do greatly sin in departing from them 1. I Answer do thou follow Christ in his Word according to the form and order appointed by him in his house and though they charge thee with departing from them God will Justifie thee for it is not their crying the Temple of Lord the Temple of the Lord that will excuse their disobedience Ier. 7. 4. for when truth is declared he commands all men to receive it and therefore when it once comes to thy Soul he requires thy obedience For to what end doth God manifest his truth by any poor Soul by any of his people but that others should be obedient consider was it not ever that which followed that old principle of confusion wherewith poor Souls were frighted by them if possible they could into that state wherein both matter and form subjects and order were all contrary to the minde of God Oh! what a noise and cry did they make after poor Souls who for conscience towards God did separate from them O say they they leave the Church and O! what a great evil would they make of this thereby possessing the people as if they had done very wickedly Not to go for further instance Was not this the practise of the Bishops and Prelates and after them the Presbyterians then the Independants and now it is come to be the practise of the Baptized people whereby it is manifest that this is but one of the last shifts of a confused principle When they cannot overturn the truth they will labour to lay stumbling blocks in the wayes of Gods people 2. I Answer though they look upon themselves to be a Church of Christ yet thou by the light of truth manifested to thy Soul doest see that they are short in a principle of the foundation thereof Is not the Church of Christ the house of God and is not Repentance faith Baptismes laying on of hands the Resurrection of the dead and eternal Judgement the foundation thereof see Heb. 6. 1 2. what will you say to make void this truth will you say as many do Christ is the foundation but is he any otherwise a foundation then in his Doctrine as he is declared and is not this his Doctrine or Teaching doth not the Apostle Heb. 6. 1. call it the Doctrine of Christ and is not his Doctrine one with himself Surely Christ his truth are one so far as a Soul knows Christ he will walk in obedience to him and doth not their disobedience to this way of the Lord discover the disorder they are in that indeed they build before the foundation is rightly layed denying a principle thereof 3. Whereas they say we deny them to be a Church it is not true For we desire not to enter Judgement in things that are too deep for us But this is that we have said and do still say let them prove themselves a Church of Christ which if they can so do we can prove them short in a foundation-principle of the service thereof and so disorderly For consider is it according to the rule of Christ to admit of persons though Baptized to Communion that shall say of a principle of the foundation of the service of God upon which he should stand to go on to perfection It is a lye that which Christ never taught though it be in so many words declared Surely such a practise God will never own neither dare we lest he disown us But here I shall take liberty to write Mr. Colliers own Argument for the discovering of a true Church of Christ in the first Page of his book of Right constitution saith he A true visible Church of Christ consisteth both of matter and form or of subjects and order for saith he it is Christs Kingdome and those subjects must be such visibly as Christ owns and that form and order according to Christs Rule or else saith he it cannot be