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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94351	The fourth principle of Christian religion: or, the foundation doctrine of laying on of hands. Asserted and vindicated by way of answer to such arguments as by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hobson have been presented against this Gospel ordinance. Affectionately tendred to such enquiring souls as are desirous throughly to forsake Babylon notion an humane tradition, and by universall obedience to follow the lamb in all his righteous appointments. / By Tho. Tillam a minister of Jesus Christ.	Tillam, Thomas.	1655 (1655)	Wing T1165; Thomason E850_9; ESTC R207403	44,938	67

19. Answ 1. I know no power that was ever put forth in Laying on of hands more then there was in Preaching Act. 10.44 45. How dare he then imitate them in Preaching and want the power 2. I know no power any man hath to Preach Authoritatively Tit. 2.15 but the same person hath by the same Commission power to carry on all Ordinances that ever Christ commanded Paul and Apollo are equall in power 1 Cor. 3.5 6 7.8 Here Paul is the planter and Apollo the waterer In Act. 8. Philip is the planter and Peter with John the waterers Now by the Gent s arguing from Act. 8. Apollo beares the bell away from Paul in point of power But the Spirit of God saith they are equall One Ananias had power to Baptize Ananias had power to impose hands 3. Thrre were certain Conjurers cudgel'd by the Devill Act. 19. for calling on the name of Jesus whom they abhorred And a sort of Sorcerers whose serpents Moses's serpent devoured But were ever any Gospell Ministers in the least reproved for administring any of Christ Ordinances Why those Vagabond exorcists knew not believed not Jesus how then should they call on him * Rom. 10.14 1 Joh. 2.3 4. but we know him and obey him as we are able And hereby we know that we know him if we keep his Commandements He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him He will never charge us with sin for observing all things whatsoever he commanded his Apostles He never commanded his Apostles to teach his Churches that it was necessary to have such ministers as must either do miracles or else they must not administer all Ordinances to the end of the world But he layes down plain directions how Ministers must be qualifyed 1 Tim. 3. T it 1. not one syllable of miracles or tongues And yet they are bound to teach the same things 2 Tim. 2.2 that Paul and Timothy did amongst which I am sure Laying on of hands was one To conclude lest the Gents. bustle about imitation of Christ and his Apostles in carrying on Gospell Ordinances without power to confirme them ten thousand times over with new miracles I say lest this noise and dust should weaken the hands and blear the eyes of Christs enquiring ones so as to have a slight esteem of Christs commands since all Gospell Ordinances and Ministers have equall authority Let it be remembred that those Divine writings and Ordinances which our deceased husband left as Legacies for the tryall of our love to our first love in remembrance of his sad sufferings till his second coming were all confirmed once unto us by signes and wonders And being thus ratified under hand and seal by him whose Kingdomes Lawes are lesse mutable then the Laws of Medes and Persians it is not for us to question them but testifie our love Joh. 14.15 15.14 and friendship by observing them even all of them Remember the pattern of heavenly things I mean those Mosaicall administrations Heb. 10.1 which were a shadow and no more of what we now enjoy But whatsoever was written aforetime was written for our Learning And therefore at the giving and writing of the Law mighty signs and wonders were wrought in the sight of Israel and Egypt So at the giving and writing of the Gospel signs and wonders from heaven confirm'd it in the sight both of Christians and Heathens But at the Jews return from Babylon not one miracle wrought and yet the people observe all their ordinances yea some that were discontinued hundreds of years Neh. 8.16 17. We are now returning out of Babylon praised be God let us embrace all our ordinances with thankfulnesse without expecting new miracles to confirm them It 's true all our Ordinances have been discontinued many hundreds of years during the time of Popish Apostasie or else in an Antichristian garb have they been administred to false subjects Yet even in the darkest times of the Beasts rage did the Lord preserve himself a remnant that held fast his truth in some corners perhaps by fifties in a Cave for the woman had a being though in a wildernesse sackcloth condition Revel 12. all that 1260. years being nourished there with her own proper food the sincere milk of the Word the Scriptures of the old and new testaments which are none other then those two witnesses appointed of God to seed her * Joh. 5.39 Jer. 15.16 And at her approach into the open light and cheerfull day of liberty which shine most gloriously under this happy Government we now enjoy being by degrees freed from that imposing persecuting Babylonish thraldome she searcheth those divine records her own peculiar treasure and portion and like those Nehem. 8.14 what she findes written in that law she obeyes step by step as God discovers truth without expecting new miracles to confirm it and at length hath found out and laid this fourth Principle in its proper place Yet some have branded this pretious Ordinance in Print as A new Administration But really I stand amazed that their consciences did not give their pen a check since 't is so evident that Peter and John and Paul and Ananias and thousands more were found in this practise sixteen hundred years ago and did most faithfully teach the same doctrine as one of the six foundation Principles of Christian Religion as the proper food or milke for babes yong beginners in Christianity to whom the Epistle to the Hebrewes is chiefly written nay only written For although it is clear that those Hebrew or Judean Churches had officers setled amongst them whom they are exhorted to remember as those that had the rule over them c. Heb. 13.7 and to obey them and submit to them vers 17. Yet was not this Epistle written to those Officers or Rulers or Ministers or Angels like the 7. Epistles to the Asian Churches Rev. 2 3. but only to the members of those Churches as is most evident by the close of that Epistle where this exhortation or injunction is laid upon those babes Heb. 13.24 Salute all them that have the rule over you Had this been wisely considered the adversaries of this fourth Principle would not so much have betrayed their weaknesse and discovered their nakednesse as with such confidence to assert that the Doctrine of hands Heb. 6. belongs only to the Ministery The wiseman cryes out Eccl. 10.16 Woe to thee O Land when thy King is a child I may much more sadly apply it to Churches if our adversaries speak truth that the fourth Principle belongeth to Ministers Woe to thee O Church when thy Elders or Bishops are babes Yea such babes as are unskilfull in the word of righteousnesse Heb. 5.13 And yet it 's as clear as the Sun that this Principle among the rest is to be used by such babes as are unskilfull in the word of righteousnesse Wherefore let our adversaries