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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62257	The sacred rite of confirmation discoursed of in a sermon preach'd at Okeham in the county of Rutland at a confirmation there administred ... on May 17, 1683 / by John Savage ...	Savage, J. (John), 1645-1721.	1683 (1683)	Wing S770; ESTC R34219	24,508	36

by their hands we are abundantly strengthened against all spiritual Enemies in Confirmation from their hands we receive the holy Eucharist the benefits of our Saviours Death and the I ledge of his eternal Love from their hands if we fall under the censures of the Church we receive Absolution and from the laying on of their hands together with the holy Chrism a custom far different from what is now us'd in the Church of Rome the Primitive Christians were freed from their several bodily Distempers or at least from their hands they then received the symbol of Christs Body and Bloud as the last and eternal Viaticum of their Souls I should be infinite in recounting unto you all the Blessings which God by these his Servants was and is pleased to communicate unto men and that under this holy and significant Rite of Imposition of Hands Here then in this solemn Office of Confirmation great and unspeakable Blessings being to be convey'd and those by his superiour Servants the principal Stewards of his Houshold what fitter and more significant Rite could possibly be devis'd whereby to secure a Blessing to the one and Honour to the other than that which the Light of Nature hath affixt to Paternal Benedictions than what the holy Patriarchs before the Law did practise than what under the Law in several the like cases was enjoyn'd than what our Saviour did frequently use and to conclude than what humane Reason could not possibly invent any thing more plain and significant But will some say Was this all that the Apostles used and did the Blessings of God follow the Imposition of Hands onely No surely there was something else belong'd to this great Office and that of a higher and more valuable nature in it self than what is here mentioned We are told vers 15. that the Apostles when they were come to Samaria prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost Prayer is an essential part of the Divine Worship but Imposition of Hands is onely a decent and significant Ceremony proper and adapted to the present occasion Their servent and devout Prayers were the holy charms that invited the Spirit of God to descend from Heaven but Imposition of Hands must be acknowledged onely as a decent Rite made use of mainly to signifie that this Spirit would ordinarily come to none but by the mediation and ministry of those whom he had appointed 'T is very evident that Prayer was the main Duty and Imposition of Hands the principal Ceremony and this is All that we find here recorded concerning the nature of this holy Office Where then shall we find the holy Chrisin consecrated by the Bishop which the Church of Rome calls the Matter where stands recorded that jingling Sentence Signo te signo crucis confirmo te Chrismate solutis in nomine Patris c. which they say is the Form of their pretended Sacrament If you will find them you must search Pope Eugenius's Decretals to the Armenians with the approbation of the Council of Florence or if that will not satisfie you may consult the Council of Trent and the Roman Catechism which give a large and more plenary account of it but let me advize you not to search the Scriptures for it for there you shall not find the least tittle concerning it And yet 't is somewhat strange the Scriptures should be silent in a business of such importance to record nothing but Prayer and Imposition of Hands and to pass by the Matter and Form the two essential parts of a Sacrament seems to be an unpardonable omission in those holy Pen-men But you will find the mistake was not theirs this Sacriledge or holy Cheat must be imputed to the Church of Rome who ingenuously acknowledges that Loco illius manus impositionis datur in Ecclesiâ confirmatio i. e. if we may be so bold as to render it into its true English Prayer and Imposition of Hands is justled out and the holy Cross with sanctified Balsam and a kind of Charm at the end of it is got into the Chair and commenc'd a Sacrament Had the Romanists retain'd Prayer and Imposition of Hands not advancing it to the honour of a Sacrament but honouring it as a Sacramental completion which is as much as it will amount to and added the Cross and Oyl onely as decent and significant Ceremonies to attend upon it they had kept themselves within the bounds of modesty for the truth is Chrism was of very ancient use even in this holy Office together with the honourable badge of our Saviour's Cross as Tertullian who lived in the latter end of the second Century testifies in his Tractate De résurrectione carnis Caro abluitur ut anima emaculetur Caro ungitur ut anima consecretur Caro signatur ut anima muniatur Caro manus impositione adumbratur ut anima spiritis illuminetur Caro corpore sanguine Christi vescitur ut anima de Deo saginetur Where you see betwixt the two Sacraments he gives us an account of Confirmation and the three Ceremonies that did then attend upon it viz. The signe of the Cross Vnction and Imposition of Hands And St. Cyprian about the middle of the third Century mentions the signe of the Cross in this holy Office in his Epistle to Jubaianus Vt per nostram orationem ac manus impositionem spiritum sanctum consequantur signaculo Dominico consummentur So that it must be confest that these Ceremonies were of ancient use in the Church and had they been retain'd onely as such the more sober sort of Christians 't is likely would not have been offen●●● But for the Church of Rome to lay aside the Apostolical institution and to advance these extrinsick Ceremonies to the same honour with the holy Eucharist is a far greater crime than she committed in the Council of Constance where she onely denies the Cup to the Laity as resolving to keep them sober but retains the use of both kinds to her proper Representatives their Priests standing on tiptoe rather than leave the least drop behind them Here then you may plainly see the ignorance of some and the impudence of others who are Adversaries to our Church The ignorance I will not say the malice of our late Dissenters who alledg'd that this Office of Confirmation as it is us'd in our Church is a superstitious practice and no better than a Transcript of the Popes Decretals whereas if they are compar'd together they are as opposite as light and darkness their old Master Cartwright who first broacht this Scandal openly retracting it upon better information Here you may likewise behold the forehead of those who pretend to pay a great reverence to Antiquity who yet curtail one of the Sacraments with a Non obstante and to make amends for it adde five more as of equal dignity 'T would be matter of wonder that these things should gain so great a repute even amongst the