I42 An Objection anfwereci. The Covenant o f 'Wor r Chap. i 91 they received the Holy Ghofl. It was ufed in miraculous cures, Mark 6, 5. Chrifi could do there no mighty Works , fave that he laid his hands upon a feW fick folke, and hea'ed them, Acts 23. 8. It was ufed in defigning men for office, and that either civil, for the work of the Magiftracy, Dent. 34.9. Jofhua the Son of Nun was full of the Spirit of Wifdome ; For Mofes had laid his hands upon him, and foie children of Ifrael hearkened unto him , and did as the Lord commanded Mofes. Or Ecclefiafticall, and that for the work of the Lord in the time of the Law, Levit. 8. io. and alfo in the dayes of the Gofpel, eslüts 13.3. And from this rite of impo- fition of hands , (in ufe in this work of Ordination) the whole work path fometimes its denomination, 17ím.5.22. Lay hands fuddenly on no man ; where impofition of hands is put for the whole work of Ordination. Some I know would take all this off ( as to Ordination by laying on of hands) by the objecti- on of extraordinary gifts which were this way conferred , as was before confefl'ed of which they will have that Text under- flood, 2 Tim. i. 6. Wherefore I put thee in remembrance , that thou flirre up the gift of god which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. But this is too weak to avoid it; for though we have al- ready faid, that when the Holy Ghoft was given in thofe ex- traordinary endowments , hands were impofed ; yet whole Presbyteries cannot ordinarily be conceived to be vefted with that power; yet they joyntly in this work laid on their hands, r Tim,4. 14. And that advice of Paul to Tirnothy, i Tim. 5.22. plainly contradicts it, lay hands fudd rly on no man, neither be partaker of other men, fans. In cafe Timothy- had had that power to have conferred with the calling qualifications for the calling, he had no need to have been n that way advifed to ufe fuck cir- camfpection. Why fhould he be fo carefull to fee them firit fit, in cafe his laying on ofhands would fit them ? There need not filch triall whether they were gifts in cafe a touch of his hand would be the gifting of them. And for Timothies Ordination in the place quoted,2Tim.r.6. it followes not from our grant, that extraordinary gifts are there fpecified, that authority for the Mi- nifteriall work is therefore denied. It is plain that Mofes autho- rized jojhua for fucceffion in his place, by laying on of hands, beat. 34, 9. 7¡he people upon that took him for his fucceffor ; yet it is as plaine in the Text, that the Spirit of wifdome was then con-
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