Chapter 31
Of the Laying On Of Hands
- We believe that laying on of hands,
with prayer, upon baptised believers, as
such, is an ordinance of
Christ,1 and ought
to be submitted unto by all such
persons that are admitted to partake of
the Lord's Supper, and that the end of
this ordinance is not for the
extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, but
for a farther reception of the Holy
Spirit of promise,2
or for the addition of the graces of
the Spirit, and the influences thereof;
to confirm, strengthen, and comfort
them in Christ Jesus, it being ratified
and established by the extraordinary
gifts of the Spirit in the primitive
times,3 to abide in
the church as meeting together on the
first day of the week was,4 that being the day of
worship, or christian sabbath, under
the Gospel, and as preaching the word
was,5 and as baptism
was,6 and prayer
was,7 and singing
psalms, etc. was,8
so this laying on of hands was,9 for as the whole Gospel
was confirmed by signs and wonders, and
divers miracles and gifts of the Holy
Ghost in general,10
so was every ordinance in like manner
confirmed in particular.
Footnotes:
1.
Hebrews 5:12; Hebrews 6:1,2; Acts
8:17,18; Acts 19:6
2.
Ephesians 1:13,14
3.
Acts 18:7, 19:6
4.
Acts 2:1
5.
Acts 10:44
6.
Matthew 3:16
7.
Acts 4:31
8.
Acts 16:25,26
9.
Acts 8 & 19
10.
Hebrews 2:3,4
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