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A61800 The Bishop of Chester's charge in his primary visitation at Chester, May 5, 1691 Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707. 1692 (1692) Wing S5929; ESTC R17221 18,998 32

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thwarts their beloved Lusts But if there should be any among us whom this Consideration does not affect yet methinks it should awaken them to consider That a vicious Preacher is in a much more miserable and deplorable Condition than a vicious Hearer because his sins are much more aggravated and consequently his Punishment will be proportionably more intollerable Thou that teachest another Man should not be drunk if thou art a Drunkard Thou that preachest another should not be covetous or proud or contentious if thou art so thy self thy own Sermons will rise up in Judgment against thee out of thy own Mouth shalt thou be condemned to that utter darkness thou hast warned others to make their escape from and shalt have the darkest and most dismal Portion in it But this is not all For 2. That measure of Grace and Holiness which may suffice for a Lay-man will not be enough for those who are to be their Guides You cannot go to Heaven at so cheap a rate as your People can as your Calling is more holy and stands in a nearer Relation to God so also must your Lives be You must be Patterns of all those Graces and Vertues you recommend to them that they by looking upon you may be able to discern wherein they are defective In all things shewing thy self a Pattern of good Works says St. Paul to Titus Tit. 2. 7. which he also gives in charge to Timothy 1 Tim. 4. 12. Be thou an Example to the Believers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity Which Commands though given to those who were of the higher yet are in proportion applicable to those of the lower Order of the Clergy For as Bishops ought to be Examples to the inferiour Clergy so the inferiour Clergy ought to be Examples to the Laity It is indeed the Duty of all even the most vulgar Christians if compared with the men of the World to be Patterns to them so our Saviour tells his Disciples Mat. 5. 13 14 15 16. That they were to be the salt of the Earth and the light of the World and commands them to let their light so shine before men that others seeing their good works might glorifie their Father which is in Heaven What then is required of you my Brethren who ought to be Examples to them who are to be Examples to the rest of Mankind What manner of Persons ought you to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness Nor must we only endeavour to frame our selves but our Families too according to the Doctrine of Christ and to make them Examples to other Families to make our Children and Servants as much as in us lyeth Examples to those of others in all those Graces and Duties which are proper to those Relations Which must be done by more fully instructing them in their respective Duties and by frequently pressing their Duties upon them by such Considerations as may be of power to over-awe their Consciences and oblige them to the performance thereof and by hearty Prayers to God to make our endeavours this way successful There is one thing more in your Ordination-Vow which I shall but very briefly recommend to your Consideration and Practice and that is That you will maintain and set forward as much as lieth in you quietness peace and love among all Christian-People especially among them who are or shall be committed to your Charge As to make peace not only between God and Man but also between man and man was one great thing our blessed Saviour had in his eye when he came into the World so in order thereunto he hath enjoyned the Practice of all those Vertues which tend to the begetting and promoting of Peace and hath forbidden all those ill-natur'd qualities that are Enemies to it As he hath commanded Rom. 12. 18. If it be possible as much as lieth in us to live peaceably with all men So he hath pressed us with great variety of the most powerful Arguments Eph. 4. 1 2 3. Phil. 2. 1 2 3. to be at peace among our selves So much was Peace his Design that he is stiled the PRINCE of Peace and his Gospel is called the Gospel of Peace As therefore we are the Ambassadors of this Prince of Peace and intrusted with the dispensation of his Gospel of Peace we are above all other men in the World obliged to the utmost of our power to prevent or reconcile differences and to maintain and promote Peace among our People To that end go to them that you hear are at variance endeavour ●o remove their Prejudices to correct their Mistakes to allay their Passions to perswade them to mutual Condescention and by all other fair means to make them heartily Friends Ever remembring That Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God Mat. 5. 9. To the last part of your Ordination-Vow viz. That you will reverently obey your Ordinary and other chief Ministers to whom is committed the Charge and Government over you c. I shall say nothing but leave it to your own Consciences to comment upon it presuming you will be impartial therein and less favourable to your selves than I should be There is one thing still behind that I must give you in Charge and that is Can. 62. The strict observation of the Canon against clandestine Marriages I hope those who practice contrary to it are in comparison but few notwithstanding the many Complaints which have been made to me about it That they are no other than the idle loose and vagrant that is the Scum and Refuse of the Clergy who drive on this scandalous Trade For I cannot perswade my self That any Man who has not very much debauch'd his Conscience and lost all sense of Honour and Reputation can be easily prevailed with to make such Marriages considering how express and severe the Laws of our Church are against them and considering the many sins and mischiefs which are the usual Consequents of them I shall pass over those which are of a more general extent and only mention a few of those Ecclesiastical Constitutions which more particularly relate to our own Church In a Council conven'd at Westminster in the Year 1175 it was Ordain'd That if any Priest shall be found to have joyned any in Marriage clandestinely he shall be suspended from his Office for the space of Three Years In a Council held after this in the Church of St. Pauls in London in the Year 1328 it was decreed Lynw. l. 4. Tit. 3. c. 1. That all Priests who shall presume to be present at any Matrimonial Contracts before the solemn publication of Banns shall be suspended from their Office for three Years And that every Priest whether Secular or Regular who shall without the special leave of the Diocesan presume to Celebrate Marriage in any place but a Church or Chappel which hath Parochial Rights shall be suspended a whole Year