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A49337	Of the subject of church power in whom it resides, its force, extent, and execution, that it opposes not civil government in any one instance of it / by Simon Lowth ...	Lowth, Simon, 1630?-1720.	1685 (1685)	Wing L3329; ESTC R11427	301,859	567

served God at all or let them consider with what Spirit it was they said the Lord's Prayer which St. Jerome says our Saviour taught the Apostles every day to repeat in their Liturgies Sic docuit Apostolos suos ut quotidiè in corporis illius Sacrificio credentes audeant loqui Pater noster qui es in Coelis c. Lib. 3. Cont. Pelag. versus finem § XXIX A second Instance peculiar and appropriate to Church Officers and which is not in the Body mixt and promiscuous is the Power of the Administration of the Sacraments viz. the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper together with that other Sacrament as 't is also call'd by the Ancients or Rite or Ceremony of Confirmation and which are and ever were administred by Men in Holy Orders and then and only then adjudged duely discharg'd valid and serviceable as all do agree that acknowledge either or both or all of them to be Christian Institutions As for that of the Lord's Supper that it was consecrated by the Bishop and from him by the Deacon delivered to the People 't is evident of Justin Martyr's second Apology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. the Bishop giving thanks i. e. having consecrated the Elements the Deacon distributed for the manner and virtue of Consecration did not consist in pronouncing so many words over the Elements as 't is weakly contended by some in the days that have been since but in the office of Prayer and Thanksgiving by the attractation of or some other signal appropriation to the Elements particularly applied unto them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Can. 4. Conc. Carthag Verborum solemnitas sacra invocatio nominis signa institutionibus Apostolicis sacerdotum Ministeriis attributa visibile celebrant Sacramentum c. Cypr. de Baptism Christi ad initium the solemnity of words sacred invocation of the Holy Name and Signs added to the Apostolical Institution by the ministry of the Priests celebrate the visible Sacrament the visible part or thing it self is form'd and shap'd by the Spirit perfecting and crowning all and so in the forementioned place of Justin Martyr the action of consecrating is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nourishment thankfully receiv'd by Prayer and the action of consecration is expressed in Irenaeus lib. 1. c. 9. by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to give thanks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 extending the word of invocation ibid. as Origen cont Cels lib. 8. and the same is in Ignatius before them all Ep. ad Smyrnenses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so general was it that the very Hereticks who usually ap'd it after the Church when to their advantage used this very way and 't is said of Marcus the Heretick and Conjurer that designing to delude his followers and represent to them an appearance as of Blood distilling into the Chalice and mock-mock-Sacrament Simulans se gratias agere seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod hodiè consecrare dicimus post longam invocationem purpureum rubrum apparere faciebat feigning to give thanks which is the Phrase for Consecration after a long invocation he made it look like purple colour and red as Pamelius gives the account Annot. in Tertull. cap. 4. cont V●l●ntin num 32. and though the Presbyter do desist from Consecration in the presence of the Bishop Can. 13. Conc. Neocesar yet 't is in his Orders enabling him to it and either he or the Bishop are said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to give the Bread in Prayer as it is now in our Communion Book that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that immaculate Communion Can. 23. Can. 6 in Trullo And Zonaras in Can. 78. Apost says that a blind man or one without his right hand ought not to be ordained for how can he officiate in holy things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or handle the holy Elements or distribute to others of them I 'le only add what I find in Eusebius his History l. 7. c. 9. concerning one that was dissatisfied in his Baptism which he receiv'd from Hereticks and desired Catholick Baptism of one Dionysius a then present famous Bishop the words are these and give a good account of the offices of private Christians in those days The holy Bishop tells him he dares not Rebaptize him and that a daily and constant Communion with the Church will suffice for he that shall frequently hear Prayers and answer Amen with the rest of the Congregation who places himself at the holy Table there stands and reaches forth his hand to receive the holy Food who there very often receives it and is partaker of the Body and Blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I dare not baptize him again but appoint him to go on and persevere in such his Religious Duties And the same is as notorious of the Sacrament of Confirmation This is sufficiently cleer out of St. Jerome adv Luciferian Tom. 3. that those which were baptized by the Presbyters and Deacons in lesser Cities Episcopus ad invocationem Spiritus Sancti manum impositurus excurrat for the invocation of the Spirit of God the Bishop runs forth or takes his Circuit and lays his hand upon them the only difficulty appearing is as to the Sacrament of Baptism St. Austin's Judgment is Laicus urgente necessitate possit baptizare Tom. 7. l. 2. cont Parmen cap. 13. a Layman if necessity urges may baptize And St. Jerome says the same adv Luciferianos and that it was in use in his days and the Practice being permitted in our Church made up a part of the Canvass betwixt Thomas Cartwright and our two learned Writers Archbishop Whitgift and Mr. Hooker as is to be seen in their Writings but the case goes farther in that of Athanasius who when a Boy and at play on the Sea-shore acted a Bishop and baptized such of his play-fellows as were not before initiated by that Sacrament and when examined by the Bishop and upon an after consultation with his Presbyters the Baptism was allow'd of Sozom. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 17. The deep sense and apprehension they had of but one Baptism and the danger of being rebaptized which is branded by the name of Incest and Sacriledge and the Priest was to be deposed that did it as appears in the Imperial Laws provided in the case 16. Cod. Theodos and the great trouble that the Church of God had at that time occasion'd first by St. Cyprian and his Bishops pleading it upon the former usuage of the Church and afterward managed to the evil of a great Schism by the Donatists who followed St. Cyprian in his Error but forsook him in his Obedience who refused to make a rent in the Church upon the occasion as all Scismaticks do These Considerations might make them very careful and perhaps too nice how they admitted of Rebaptizations and which were only admitted in case of certain Hereticks who denied the Trinity Vid. Can. 47. Apost 49. Can. 9. Conc. Nic. 1. or else