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A34064	A discourse upon the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons, according to the order of the Church of England by Thomas Comber ...	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1699 (1699)	Wing C5464; ESTC R1808	281,164	522

had been crucified and now was risen again as he had promised Ver. 21. When therefore their Faith was thus confirmed and their Minds composed Then said Iesus to them I salute you again most heartily wishing Peace and all Happiness may now and ever be unto you For I now come to enlarge your Character by making you my Deputies and Vicegerents in the Ruling and Feeding my Church And that your Authority and Power may be equal to your Trust Behold As my Father hath sent me with his Spirit and in this Name to be the supreme Pastor of this Flock even so send I you with my Spirit and in may name (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sig. mittere cum potestate mittenti 1 Peter ii 14. Graec. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et missi Dominici pro judicibus Capitular Franc. passim to gather together instruct and preside over the Church in my absence as my Delegates and Representatives till I come again at the end of the World and I expect that all who believe in me shall receive and obey you as such for my sake who send you Ver. 22. And when he had said this to instate them into this Office he also made use of a visible significant sign And to shew the ability to execute it aright came originally from the Holy Spirit which he as the eternal Son of God had power to communicate he breathed on them for breath is an emblem of the Spirit called in Hebrew by the same name and was used by God when at the first Creation he put the Soul and Spirit into Man therefore when Spiritual power and Energy was to be put into these newly created Officers Jesus used the same Symbol and said unto them to explain the meaning of the sign Receive every one of ye the Holy Ghost and all his gifts that are ordinarily necessary for the discharge of this your Pastoral Office unto which I now admit you Ver. 23. And leaving you my Embassadors resident upon Earth I do commit to you and your Successors the Ministry of reconciling Sinners unto me upon the Conditions of the Covenant of Grace which I have established in the Gospel and no otherwise So that you shall not only have Authority by these Rules to declare what things are lawful and what unlawful but to judge of Persons and their Actions and if any have Sinned who truly Repent of it you may not only pray to God for them and according to the Gospel promises give them hopes of a Pardon But if you think their Repentance sincere you may Pronounce it and I will confirm it For whose soever Sins you remit in my Name and on my Conditions they are remitted and I will forgive them according to the tenor of my Gospel And on the otherside whose soever Sins ye judge are not sufficiently repented of and so you retain your power of Absolution and declare their guilt remains upon them such Men are liable to my final sentence for as to the Sins of these impenitent Wretches they are retained and I will not forgive them till they give better Testimonies of their unfeigned Repentance (g) Non praejudicamus Domino judicaturo quo minus si Poenitentiam plenam invenerit tunc ratum facit quod à nobis fuerat hic statutum Cypr. ad Anton. Ep. 52. You know I am appointed the great Judge of all and I who alone have the original power to Forgive or Condemn invest you with this Prerogative of loosing the Penitent and binding the Ostinate both to enable you the better to deal with all sorts of Offenders and to bring all Christian People highly to Reverence (h) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. in loc your Office and greatly to regard your Censures and Absolutions A Paraphrase on the third Gospel §. 4. Matth. xxviii 18. After our Lord had often manifested himself to be risen again at Jerusalem the eleven Disciples by his direction went into Galilee to a Mountain probably Tabor where being assembled Iesus came as he had promised to take his final leave and spake unto them to this effect Having now gone through all the Stages of my Humiliation and perfected the work of your Redemption Now by vertue of the eternal Covenant between me and my Father All power and Authority is (i) Graec. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lat. potestas given to me to Order Rule and Govern all things both in Heaven the Triumphant and also in Earth the Militant part of my Church Saints and Angels there and all Mankind here being subjected to me as their sole supreme Head Ver. 19. As to the upper and glorious part of my Kingdom whither I am now returning to be your Mediator there I will manage that in Person But you shall be my Delegates here on Earth Go ye therefore as my Apostles in my name and Teach the first Principles of my Religion unto all Nations in the World So as to convert both Jews and Gentiles to be my Disciples And when they believe my Doctrine and will promise to live by my Rules you shall solemnly admit them by Baptizing them with Water for remission of all their Sins using this Form I Baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost declaring thou art a Believer of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity and by that distinguishing Article receiving thee into Christ's Holy Church of which thou art now made a Member Ver. 20. As for those whom you have thus baptized you must take care that they understand and keep their Baptismal Vow by frequently Preaching to them and Teaching them conscientiously and strictly to observe all things whatsoever I have revealed to be a Duty and all that I have commanded you already while I was with you upon Earth or shall hereafter by my Spirit further enjoyn to you and them for keeping these my Commandments is the only way to eternal Life I foresee you will meet with many difficulties and much opposition in doing this and perhaps you may be troubled that I must leave you but go on courageously for lo though I am to remain in Heaven as to my Bodily presence yet as God I am Omnipresent and by my constant assistance and support you shall find that I am with you as long as you live and will be with your Successors always even unto the end of the World then I will come again in Glory to reward you and them for all your Labours in my Vineyard and all your Sufferings upon the account of me and mine Amen CHAP. V. Of the Arch-Bishop and the Oath of Canonical Obedience to him §. 1. RUbr And then shall be also ministred unto them the Oath of due Obedience to the Arch-Bishop as followeth It hath been fully proved by divers learned Writers That as soon as the Christian Religion began to spread over the Provinces of the Roman Empire the Bishops of lesser Cities were subordinate to those of

sorts and especially the History of those Ages which are coincident with the times and of those Countries which are spoken of in or adjacent to the places mentioned in Holy Scripture to which Chronology and Geography will exceedingly conduce In short there are few parts of human Learning that are not some way or other necessary to accomplish a Divine But what directly concerns him is That which is properly called Theology and so he must be well versed in all Writers Systematical Textual Historical Polemical and Practical The Systematical are the Catechists Ancient and Modern and the Authors of whole Bodies of Divinity The Textual are the learned and laborious Commentaries of the Holy Fathers and later Orthodox Divines The Historical are such as have writ the sacred story of the Jewish and Christian Church in general or the Lives of the Fathers and most eminent Bishops and Doctors together with the Collectors of the Councils and Ecclesiastical Laws of Christian Princes The Polemical are the ancient Apologists and those Orthodox Fathers who defended the Christian Religion against Paganism and old Heresies as also such as have maintained the Doctrine and Rites of the Reformed Church of England against Papists and Dissenters Finally The Practical Authors are the Editors and Explainers of Liturgies the compilers of Offices for private Devotion and such as write about Piety and a Holy life in general or concerning any particular Virtue or Vice And that he may not lose time either by an ill method of Study or an ill choice of Books in all faculties there are some very usefull Writers who will direct him in these matters some few of which I shall only name and refer my Reader to them (b) Hug. Grotij alior Disserationes de studiis instituend Amstel 1645. Apparatus ad Theolog. per Steph. Penton Lond. 1688. Bishop Barlow ' s direction for Study and D. Bray ' s Parochial Library concluding with this advice to keep Common places and Methodical repositories of all the choice things they would remember for which there are very good Rules in Drexelius (c) Hierem. Drexelij Aurifodina in ejus Oper. in Fol. Tom. 4. pag. 739. And to this end a young Divine should be provided of a Bible a Concordance a Common-Prayer-Book and the Articles and Canons all interleaved with a large common place Book that may lie ready the first to note down all choice Explications of any Text the second for the signification of Words and Phrases the third for what is agreeable to our Offices especially in the Primitive Writers the fourth for such things in antiquity chiefly as vindicate our Doctrine and Disciple And the last for a general Repository of all Philological and Moral Notions By the daily use of which a studious Man will not only surely retain whatever he Reads even to his old Age but will always be furnished by consulting these Collections of his own with variety of proper Matter for Sermons Disputations or Discourses upon any subject in a few hours time the advantage of which is so great especially when our Memories begin to fail that such as have taken pains this way in their youth can never be surprized nor unprovided This short account may suffice to shew how necessary it is that a Clergy-man should have a liberal Maintenance to furnish him with some of the best Books in all Sciences secular (d) Rudes secularium literarum cum loqui nesciunt tacere non possunt prius imperitorum magistri quam doctorum discipuli Hieron ep 8. p. 76. and sacred For what the Italian Proverb saith of a well furnished House that it makes a notable Dame (e) Camera adorna fà Donna savia Prov. Ital. G. Torrian p. 16. We may say of a well filled Study it makes an eminent Divine and doubtless we must ascribe the ignorance of some and the looseness of others in Holy Orders principally to this fatal want because it cannot be supposed that Men of ingenuous education should either be so dull as not to improve with all those helps or so wretched as to seek mean or loose company when they have at home the benefit of conversing with the most learned and best Men of all Ages And considering how large a field he that desires to be an accomplished Scholar hath to expatiate in and what noble objects he hath to pursue if he be never so young and strong he hath employment enough for his whole life and for all the hours he can spare from his Offices and the necessary business of his Family He will have no time to squander away upon the World and the Flesh who has a generous ambition to improve himself in all these kinds of knowledge yet will find a satisfaction in this laborious course of Study abundantly sufficient to recompence him for all his pains §. 5. Quest VII Will you maintain and set forwards as much as lieth in you quietness peace and love c. When we consider that Christ was stiled the Prince of peace before his Incarnation (f) Isai ix 6. that he was welcomed at his Birth with the Angels singing Peace on Earth (g) Luke ii 14. that his Gospel is the Gospel of peace (h) Ephes vi 15. and that he gives a peculiar blessing to the makers of peace (i) Matth. v. 9. we cannot wonder it should be one of the Duties of his Ministers to promote Peace and Charity among all Christians and especially among the people committed to their special care I have shewed before in the Preface how far the chief Priests among the Heathens and Bishops of the Christian Church were privileged in taking up all publick and private quarrels and shall only note here that our Saviour intended all the Clergy should be concerned in this Office of peace-making for they wait at the Altar and are to oblige the injurious person to leave his gift there and to be reconciled to his Brother before the Priest may accept and offer it (k) Matth. v. 23 24. which no doubt gave occasion to those ancient Canons that enjoyn the Clergy not to receive the oblations of such as were at enmity (l) Concil 4. Carth. can 93. ap Bin. T. 1. p. 589. and order them to rebuke such as they perceived lived in malice and if they proved obstinate to suspend them from the Sacrament till they were made Friends (m) Concil Agath An. 506. can 31. Bin. T. 2. par 1. p. 556. by which we may see that our Rubrick which laies the same injunction upon every Priest (n) See the third Rubrick before the Communion is grounded on Holy Scripture and the Canons as well as the Practice of the Primitive Church And if it were duly performed as it is solemnly promised by all the Clergy it would be of inestimable benefit to the Laity by preventing all quarrels and dissension hindring chargeable and expensive Law Suits and extirpating the mischievous effects