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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86600	Clavis exousiasichē [sic]: The key of ordination. Or, Missio potestativa. Oichonomichē: ministerial power: or, Authoritative separation of men to the work of Christ, a ministerial privilege.A sermon preached at the ordination of Mr. Thomas Porter Master of Arts, Mr. John Wilson, Mr. David Jenks, Mr. George Burraston, and Mr. Tho: Soley, at Whitchurch in the county of Salop. / By Aylmer Houghton, minister of the word at Prees in the said county.	Houghton, Aylmer.	1656 (1656)	Wing H2918; Thomason E1665_3; ESTC R208387	22,964	62

The Juridical power is in the Presbytery to judge of and examine those who are to preach the Word of God that so false Teachers and Unworthy men might be kept from creeping into the Church of Christ For wicked men such as are meerly natural and prophane or hypocrites in heart would never consent to the call of a holy Minister of Jesus Christ And besides these are not capable in their choice to judge of such but may either out of prejudice or ignorance or out of a prophane heart deny consent to his Ministery whom God hath called and said Separate me such a one to the work whereunto I have called him For my part I cannot be perswaded or satisfied in this one thing that ever any one not called by the Church and that is out of office and orders and intrudes upon this holy calling should ever convert souls or bring any to heaven Dissenting judgements there are of some of our Brethren about this Separate me even concerning the form of this Separation and Ordination But I intend not to wade into this business or meddle with this Controversie Our practise is approved and sufficiently cleared to the satisfaction I hope of all here or of the most that desire unity and order in the Church of Christ and therefore I shall leave it with this one additional requisite belonging to it which is Probation 1 Tim. 3.10 Hiprobentur let them first be proved And this hath been our form of proceeding in setting apart and separating those whom hitherto we have laid our hands on and sent forth to the work whereunto they have been called and that both of their abilities and deportments And the rather For as a wise Master of a Family will not commit matters of moment to any one Servant till he hath first made proof of his ability to do it and also of his faithfulness in doing it Multo magis necessarium est eos probari quibus comittenda est cura sanctae Congregationis Hiperius Much more fit is it that those be tryed and proved to whom is committed the care of souls in the Church of Christ A word of the fourth Term which is the form of this outward call by Separation And when they had prayed Prayer is a duty for all undertakings of Christians especially in an undertaking of that nature and high concernment as this in my Text and as we are this day come about 2. By fasting This was a duty for extraordinary undertakings and more than ordinary occasions such as this is we are now about 3. By Imposition of hands which contains the species of their Consecration In conferring of holy Orders a double posture hath anciently been observed First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Imposition of hands in token of Consecration Acts 8.17 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holding up of hands in sign of confirmation Acts 14.23 And in this Ceremony is held forth the offering of them up to God for the work whereunto the Holy Ghost hath called them And this outward call though it be not of men yet it is by men and necessary to so holy a function And all such as come not in by this door are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 new illuminates lately dropt out of heaven that yesterday were but Dolts and Dunces but to day are Doctors and Divines Yesterday with Saul were seeking their fathers Asses and to day are gotten among the Prophets 1 Sam. 10.16 like the Nightingale Vox preterea nihil a voyce and nothing else or like the Camelion all lungs and no heart All their learning is by Revelation they pray and preach and all by the Spirit whereas all are but the visions of their own hearts the fancies of distempered spirits and meer chymera's of sin-sick brains which they rather feign than know and foolish unstable souls rather follow than believe or trust But those called of God and by men are such as know God and themselves who have a feeling of that spirit who teacheth them to know God and God to know them and them to know themselves Of these the holy Ghost hath said to us Separate me these men for the work whereunto I have called them I have now done with the Doctrinal part of my Thesis and shall fall upon the Applicatory part and be brief in it I hava a threefold Errand from Christ to all here this day suitable to your threefold Stations Relations Places and Persons My first Errand is to you my Reverend Brethren and my self who have this Command in my Text enjoyned us To separate these our Brethren for the work whereunto they are called My second Errand is my Brethren to you who are this day to be Separated from other persons and imployments to this weighty work And my third Errand is to all of you Christian Auditors and Spectators to this Religious crowd and throng who are this day Spectators to behold and Auditors to hear how this work is performed both by them and us In all of which I hope you will be both Approbationers to approve it and Petitioners with us to the Throne of grace and help us by your prayers for a blessing on them And pray all your Amens unto it Reverend Brethren My first Errand and Word I have from Christ is to you and to my self All the excuse I shall now plead is I must be faithful to my Lord and Master Jesus Christ 1 Cor 4 2. You have called me forth to this work therefore give me leave to be plain and impartial in delivering the minde of Christ to us in this weighty business My first word to you and to my self is onely that which this Apostle gave to his beloved Timothy 1 Tim. 5.22 A charge that he gave him to keep himself pure and to lay hands suddenly on no man lest he be partaker of other mens sins To prevent this evil two things are required of us before admission of any to this weighty work 1. Circumspection 2. Sincere Affections First Circumspection That such onely be admitted as are in some measure fraught and furnisht with the sufficiencies of both men the inward and the outward man clad and cloathed with the indowments and perfections both of nature and grace Secondly Sincere affections That we be not transported with by-respects either of profit or of partiality If we neglect either of these we may make our selves partakers of other mens sins of the sins of others And that 1. By consenting to such 2. Or By concealing of such 3. Or By contriving for such 4. Or By commending of such to the work of the Lord who are not called of God to this work by his Spirit to this Ministerial Function I Remember a passage of Erasmas who stories of the Bishop of Utretcht who was son to the good Duke of Burgundie who had at one time three hundred who came to him for holy Orders He was resolved he would examine them himself and made tryal of their

continued Mat. 9. ult 2 Thes 3.1 2. Ah dear Christians we all pray for you nay the Lord forbid that wee should ever cease to pray for you 1 Sam. 12.23 Therefore pray for them and us alas all the unfruitfulness of your hearts under all our toil and travel in our Ministery is because you do not pray for us you do not pray for your Ministers that their work might warm your hearts and make it saving for your salvation Secondly I desire you praise them and us I tell you Christians that Gods Ministers do deserve from you their due commendation All the incouragements that you are able to give them is little enough to hold up their spirits in this weighty work You will incourage the creature or a servant or a child when they do well and will you not do it to a Minister Oh! do not vilify them nor blemish them with reproaches Constantine the great was wont to say That the failings of a Minister should be covered from the knowledge of others and himself would rather cover them with his Purple Robe than have them known Thirdly Praise God for them and us this is my next request praise God that he is pleased to hold up a Gospel-ministery amongst us by his daily calling in of labourers into his Harvest Matth. 9. last verse Fourthly I beg of you that you will prize them and us and that for our work sake 1 Tim. 4.17 Oh! How beautifull should the feet be of those that bring glad tydings And those who labour in the word and doctrin are worthy of double honour saith our Apostle Oh! Do not undervalue them those who are the Ministers of Jesus Christ nor do you account them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The offals and off-scourings of the world Fifthly I intreat you pitty them and us I tell you Christian friends that none in the world should have such a plentiful portion of your pitty as the Ministers of Jesus Christ Especially if you would but seriously lay to heart these four things 1 Their great care they are daily in 2 Their great cost daily at 3 Their great account they must give 4 Their great contempt they lye continually open to But I cannot stand upon these things onely let me tell you what Chrysostome saith that their care cost count and contempt is such that the Angels themselves would tremble for to undergo their burden so great it is Sixthly I earnestly crave that you will practise them and us I mean theirs and our preaching It is the Apostles advice Heb. 13.17 that ye obey them that rule over you in the Lord as those that must give an account I beseech you let not your fancies sit above your judgements but let your judgements guide your opinions and let your opinions being guided by some judgement lead your zeal if not you walk preposterously in all duties of Religion Oh! Hence it is that the spiritual yoke of obedience and practice is cast off to all Gospel Ministery and so many live above our ministery and some below our ministery Some above our Ministery even above that Ministery that begot them if ever they were spiritually begotten and born of God And if it bee vile for a child to contemn the natural father of his body oh how much more vile is it in the sight of God for any to revile and contemn the spiritual fathers of their souls 1 Cor. 9.2 Alexander the great a Heathen Emperor was wont to say That he was more beholding unto Aristotle his Master than to Philip his Father for hee had but his being from his Father but his well-being from his Master Hence it is that wee have so many new Ruptures bred in the bowels of the Church which are indeed but the grey hairs of old errors which long since were worm-eaten and dusted with antiquity And now taking the advantage of liberty of conscience and the allowance of that tolleration which was onely intended for tender consciences have new brusht up their old erronious Tenents and put fair flourishing and hypocritical colours upon them And these now fly abroad in the eyes of some of our people by which many of them are almost blinded and wilfully refuse to see the truth I beseech you therefore deer Christians take heed of these and resolve to practice the preachings of your faithful ministers oh be not like Israel loathers of your spirituall manna Harbour not nice appetites nor coy and curious stomacks some are so dainty that hardly one of a thousand can long please them or any dainty dish long relish with them I remember I was once at a Bishops table in this land at dinner and I heard him call for brown bread and said his stomack was grown wanton he knew not what to eat he was well but his stomack was wanton So we have many whose spiritual appetites and stomacks are grown wanton they are well and have good spiritual food but their stomacks are grown wanton Nay in the time that I can remember and since I have been a Minister of Christ Gods people have thought themselves happy in the enjoyment of far shorter spiritual commons and fared well and were fat and well-liking with far less than we now injoy and with courser dyet and yet were truely thankful Seventhly and Lastly I pray you pay them and us this is my last Request and I fear will be the least regarded yet the laborer is worthy of his wages and the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corn should not be muzled But if a Minister of Christ do but look for that maintenance which the Law of God and of Nature and Nations do allow him for his work Oh then and not till then The Hubbub is up in the mouth of the multitude Away with him he is but Mercinary and a hireling All their work is for gain for Tythes and Tenths and for nothing else this is that they work for I beseech you give me leave Christians to tell you that the tythe and tenth of your profits is none of yours but theirs to whom God hath alloted it for their maintenance and the Law of the Nation hath established it unto them for sowing unto you spiritual things for the furthering of your salvation I pray let me tell you what Augustine saith to this point in hand That Tythe is too little for a Minister of Christ And he gives his reason Because saith he if you give no more but your Tythe you do not then exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees who paid Tythe of all even to Mint and Cummin It was wont to be said What shall we give to the men of God 1 Sam. 9.7 but now it is common in the mouth of the most What shall we take from the men of God Psal 83.12 And it may justly be feared that if a Ministers allowance for his maintenance were but what some please and have been driving at it would be after the rate of Cratis in his Ephemeris 10 l. to the Cook and ten talents to the Parasite and three half pence to the Philosopher Every little is thought too much for a Minister But I hope better things of all you here present that you are better moulded and better minded better grounded and better graced and that you will now with winged zeal willingly joyn with us in your prayers for these our Brethren now to be set apart for the work whereunto they are called That they may be instruments in the hand of Jesus Christ to advance his glory and inlarge his Kingdom for which I intreat the assistance of your prayers with us Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacrae Trinitati Gloria FINIS Books lately Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the sign of the Three Crowns over against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside DR Richard Sibs his Commentary upon the second Epistle to the Corinthians published for publick good by Tho. Manton in Folio Mr. John Cotton his Exposition on the First Epistle of John with Doctrines Reasons and Uses in Folio The Journal or Diary of a thankful Christian wherein is contained directions for the right method of keeping and using according to the rules of practice a Day-book of National and Politick personal and private passages of Gods providence to help Christians to thankfulnesse and experience By John Beudle Minister of the Gospel a Barstone in Essex Cathechizing Gods Ordinance or a short treatise concerning that ancient approved and soul-edifying Ordinance of Catechism by Mr. Zach. Crofton Minister of the word at Buttolphs without Aldgate London in Octavo Quakers principles quaking their pretended light proved darkness and perfection proved to be the greatest imperfection by Ralph Hall whereunto is prefixed an Epistle of Mr. Zachary Crofton Courteous Reader THou mayest expect within a short time to see published some new peeces of Mr. William Fenners who was so famous when living and his works though hee is dead such a sweet though silent voice There is in the presse several excellent treatises of Dr. Samuel Bolton never before Printed written by his own hand published by Dr. Turkney and Mr. Edmond Callamy T. P.