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B00327 The forme and manner of making and consecrating bishops, priestes and deacons.; Ordinal Church of England.; Barker, Robert, d. 1645, printer.; Bill, John, d. 1630, printer. 1633 (1633) STC 16473; ESTC S122861 19,142 27

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this way and to this end And that you will continually pray for the heauenly assistance of the holy Ghost from God the Father by the mediation of our onely Mediatour and Sauiour Iesus Christ that by daily reading and weighing of the Scriptures ye may so waxe riper and stronger in your ministery And that yee may so endeauour your selues from time to time to sanctifie the liues of you and yours and to fashion them after the rule and doctrine of Christ And that ye may be wholsome and godly examples and patterns for the rest of the congregation to follow that this present congregation of Christ here assembled may also vnderstand your mindes and wils in these things and that this your promise shall more moue you to do your duties ye shall answere plainely to these things which we in the name of the congregation shall demand of you touching the same Doe you thinke in your heart that you bee truely called according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the order of this Church of England to the ministery of Priesthood Answere I thinke it The Bishop BEe you perswaded that the holy scriptures conteine sufficiently all doctrine required of necessitie for eternall saluation thorow faith in Iesu Christ And are you determined with the sayd Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge and to teach nothing as required of necessitie to eternall saluation but that you shall be perswaded may be concluded and prooued by the Scripture Answere I am so perswaded and haue so determined by Gods grace The Bishop VVIll you then giue your faithfull diligence alwayes so to minister the doctrine and Sacraments and the discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded and as this Realme hath receiued the same according to the Commandements of God so that you may teach the people committed to your cure and charge with all diligence to keepe and obserue the same Answere I will so doe by the helpe of the Lord. The Bishop VVIll you bee ready with all faithfull diligence to banish and driue away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to Gods word and to vse both publike and priuate monitions and exhortations as well to the sicke as to the whole within your cures as need shall require and occasion be giuen Answere I will the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you bee diligent in prayers and in reading of the holy Scriptures and in such studies as helpe to the knowledge of the same laying aside the study of the world and the flesh Answere I will endeauour my selfe so to doe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you bee diligent to frame and fashion your owne selues and your families according to the doctrine of Christ and to make both your selues and them as much as in you lieth wholsome examples and spectacles to the flocke of Christ Answere I will apply my selfe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you maintaine and set forwards as much as lyeth in you quietnes peace and loue among all Christian people and specially among them that are or shall bee committed to your charge Answere I will so doe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you reuerently obey your Ordinarie and other chiefe Ministers vnto whom the gouernment and charge is committed ouer you following with a glad minde and will their godly admonitions and submitting your selues to their godly iudgements Answere I will so doe the Lord being my helper Then shall the Bishop say ALmighty God who hath giuen you this will to doe all these things grant also vnto you strength and power to performe the same that he may accomplish his worke which hee hath begun in you vntill the time hee shall come at the latter day to iudge the quicke and the dead After this the Congregation shall bee desired secretly in their prayers to make humble supplications to God for the aforesaid things for the which prayers there shall be a certaine space kept in silence That done the Bishop shall pray in this wise ¶ Let vs pray ALmighty God and heauenly Father which of thine infinite loue and goodnesse towards vs hast giuen to vs thy only most deare beloued Son Iesus Christ to be our redeemer author of euerlasting life who after he had made perfect our redemption by his death was ascended into heauen sent abroad into the world his Apostles Prophets Euangelists Doctours and Pastours by whose labour and ministery hee gathered together a great flocke in all the parts of the world to set forth the eternall praise of thy holy Name For these so great benefits of thy eternall goodnesse and for that thou hast vouchsafed to call these thy seruants here present to the same office and ministerie of saluation of mankinde wee render vnto thee most hearty thanks we worship and praise thee and wee humbly beseech thee by the same thy Sonne to grant vnto vs all which either here or elsewhere call vpon thy Name that wee may shew our selues thankfull to thee for these and all other thy benefits that we may daily encrease and goe forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Sonne by the holy Spirit So that as well by these thy Ministers as by them to whom they shall be appointed Ministers thy holy Name may be alwayes glorified and thy blessed kingdome enlarged through the same thy Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ which liueth and reigneth with thee in the vnitie of the same holy Spirit world without end Amen When this prayer is done the Bishop with the Priests present shal lay their hands seuerally vpon the head of euery one that receiueth Orders The Receiuers humbly kneeling vpon their knees and the Bishop saying REceiue the holy Ghost whose sinnes thou doest forgiue they are forgiuen and whose sinnes thou doest reteine they are reteined and be thou a faithfull dispenser of the word of God and of his holy Sacraments In the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen The Bishop shall deliuer to euery one of them the Bible in his hand saying TAke thou authority to preach the word of God and to minister the holy Sacraments in this Congregation where thou shalt be so appointed When this is done the Congregation shall sing the Creed and also they shall goe to the Communion which all they that receiue Orders shall take together and remaine in the same place where the hands were layed vpon them vntill such time as they haue receiued the Communion The Communion being done after the last collect and immediatly before the Benediction shall be said this Collect. MOst merciful Father we beseech thee so to send vpon these thy seruants thy heauenly blessing that they may bee clad about with all iustice and that thy word spoken by their mouthes may haue such successe that it may neuer be spoken in vaine Grant also that we may haue grace to heare and receiue the same as thy most
holy word and the meanes of our saluation that in all our words and deeds we may seeke thy glory and the encrease of thy kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen And if the Order of Deacons and Priesthood be giuen both vpon one day then shall all things at the holy Communion bee vsed as they are appointed at the Ordering of Priests Sauing that for the Epistle the whole third Chapter of the first to Timothie shall bee read as it is set out before in the order of Priests And immediatly after the Epistle the Deacons shall be ordered And it shall suffice the Letany to be said once ❧ The Forme of Consecrating of an Archbishop or Bishop ¶ At the Communion The Epistle THis is a true saying If a man desire the office of a Bishop he desireth an honest worke A Bishop therefore must be blamelesse the husband of one wife diligent sober discreet a keeper of hospitality apt to teach not giuen to ouermuch wine no fighter not greedy of filthy lucre but gentle abhorring fighting abhorring couetousnesse one that ruleth wel his own house one that hath children in subiection with all reuerence For if a man cannot rule his owne house how shall he care for the Congregation of God Hee may not be a young scholler lest he swell and fall into the iudgement of the euill speaker He must also haue a good report of them which are without lest he fall into rebuke and the snare of the euill speaker The Gospel IEsus said to Simon Peter Simon Iohanna louest thou mee more then these Hee said vnto him Yea Lord thou knowest that I loue thee hee sayd to him Feede my Lambes He said to him againe the second time Simon Iohanna louest thou mee Hee said vnto him Yea Lord thou knowest that I loue thee hee said Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our Father which art in heauen c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill Amen The Versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Answere Neither reward vs after our iniquities ¶ Let vs pray O God mercifull Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that wee make before thee in all our troubles and aduersities whensoeuer they oppresse vs and graciously heare vs that those euills which the craft and subtilty of the deuill or man worketh against vs be brought to nought and by the prouidence of thy goodnesse they may be dispersed that we thy seruants being hurt by no persecutions may euermore giue thanks vnto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy Names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou diddest in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and euer shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend vs O Christ Graciously looke vpon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hearts Mercifully forgiue the sinnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Graciously heare vs O Christ graciously heare vs O Lord Christ The Versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed vpon vs. Answere As we doe put our trust in thee ¶ Let vs pray VVE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to looke vpon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Names sake turne from vs all those euils that wee most righteously haue deserued and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and euermore serue thee in holinesse and purenesse of liuing to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Aduocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmightie God which hast giuen vs grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications vnto thee and doest promise that when two or three bee gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy seruants as may be most expedient for them granting vs in this world knowledge of thy trueth and in the world to come life euerlasting Amen ¶ Then shall bee said also this that followeth ALmighty God which by thy diuine prouidence hast appointed diuers orders of Ministers in the Church and diddest inspire thine holy Apostles to chuse vnto this order of Deacons the first Martyr S. Stephen with other mercifully behold these thy seruants now called to the like office and administration replenish them so with the trueth of thy doctrine and innocency of life that both by word and good example they may faithfully serue thee in this office to the glory of thy Name and profit of the Congregation through the merits of our Sauiour Iesu Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost now and for euer Amen Then shall be sung or said the Communion of the day sauing the Epistle shall be read out of Timothie as followeth LIke wise must the Ministers be honest not double tongued nor giuen vnto much wine neither greedy of filthy lucre but holding the mysterie of the faith with a pure conscience and let them first be prooued and then let them minister so that no man be able to reproue them Euen so must their wiues be honest not euill speakers but sober faithfull in all things Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well and their owne housholds For they that minister well get themselues a good degree and a great liberty in the faith which is in Christ Iesu These things write I vnto thee trusting to come shortly vnto thee but and if I tary long that then thou mayest yet haue knowledge how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God which is the congregation of the liuing God the pillar and ground of truth And without doubt great is that mystery of godlinesse God was shewed in the flesh was iustified in the spirit was seene among the Angels was preached vnto the Gentiles was beleeued on in the world and receiued vp in glory Or else this out of the sixth of the Acts. THen the twelue called the multitude of the Disciples together and said It is not meet that we should leaue the word of God and serue tables Wherefore brethren looke yee out among you seuen men of honest report and full of the holy Ghost and wisdom to whom wee may commit this businesse but wee will giue our selues continually to praier and to the administration of the word And that saying pleased the whole multitude