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A16492	A sermon of confirmation preached in Oxford, at the first visitation of the right reuerend Father in God, Iohn Lord Bishop of Oxford. September, 27. 1619. By Edward Boughen, chaplaine to the Lord Bishop of Oxford.	Boughen, Edward, 1587?-1660?	1620 (1620)	STC 3407; ESTC S114770	43,639	78

Imposition of hands For there is no reason why the holy ancient Ecclesiasticall Apostolical constitutions should vtterly be abolished for some abuses crept in By this heady preposterous course the Church would rather become deformed then reformed by this meanes we should not haue so much as a Sacrament left vs. 98 When therefore some one or other of the Reformed Churches who haue pulled downe the Aristocracie of Bishops and haue erected the Anarchie of a confused lay-presbyterie and so consequently cast off the sacred vse of Confirmation which cannot stand without a Bishop shal resolutely tell vs whom in this point and many other they esteeme no better then Papists etiamsi vetustissimam hanc esse obseruationem multorum saeculorum consensu firmatam ostendatis nihil tamen efficitis though this obseruation and practise be neuer so ancient though it be confirmed by the consent and continuance of neuer so many ages it is to little or no purpose then cauete take heed I pray you Aug. tract 6. in Euang. Iohannis excipite verba contradicentium respuenda non transglutienda et visceribus danda and entertaine these speeches of contradicting Spirits as words to be reiected not to be chewed much lesse to be disgested Do as Christ did when they offered him the bitter potion He tasted it and spit it out so do you Heare these words loath them and thus it seemes hath the Reformed Church of Bohemia done For in that Church after Baptisme gratiam Harmon Confess p. 94. quam Baptismus complectitur impositione manuum in ipsis testatam faciunt the Gouernours of the Church testifie vnto the world by Imposition of hands the grace which is giuen in Baptisme ad militiā fidei eos confirmant marke I beseech you they confirme strengthen and arme them for the warfare of faith and so in a conuenient and holy manner by the vse of pure and significant ceremonies ad Sacramentum coenae domini adducunt they bring them to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper which is one and the same practise with the Church of England as you may see it expresly set downe by way of Canon or Constitution in the Booke of Common Prayer where wee reade that None shall bee admitted to the holy Communion Common prayer booke vntil such time as he can say the Catechisme and be confirmed This is the constitution of the Church of England I say and confirmed by Act of Parliament with the rest of the Booke and stands in full force still if it should please our Prelates to exact it If you require Antiquitie for it we shall finde this Canon as ancient as Saint Austine for hee tels vs that this was dogma Ecclesiasticum an Ecclesiasticall Canon in his time Manus impositione Aug. de Eccles dogmat 〈◊〉 Chrismate communiti Eucharistiae mysterijs admittantur Let those who are confirmed by Imposition of hands be admitted to receiue the blessed Eucharist And this Canon we haue seene approoued Concil Laod Can. 7. and confirmed by the Councell of Laodicea 99 So then neither we nor this Reformed Church of Bohemia borrow this practise of Confirmation as some falsely giue forth from the Papists or Popish decretalls no T. C. l. 1. p. 199 but as our Communion Booke truly sayes Common prayer Booke It is agreeable with the vsage of the Church in times past This was the custome of the olde the Primitiue Church Tertul aduers valent c. 4. E●●lesia authenticae regulae sic tenuit the Church of the ancient and authenticke rule held thus and thus hold we Tertullian thought this a sufficient answere to stoppe the mouth of Valentinus that grosse giddie Hereticke and the Church of Bohemia labouring to preuent all obiections giues this reason onely for her doings Harmon Confess p. 94. Huius rei in prima Ecclesia indicia atque exempla etiam extant manifesta there are manifold testimonies and examples of Confirmation yet extant in the Primitiue Church And whereas some say that the practise of the Primitiue Church is nothing to vs vnlesse we proue it out of Scripture the same Church of Bohemia auerres Ibid. that Prima Ecclesia est posterorum vera optima magistra et praecundo ducit nos the Primitiue Church is the true and most excellent Mistresse of all later Churches and leades vs the way and wee may fafely follow her for she followed the Apostles steppes and borrowed this practise from my Text as before I noted out of Saint Cyprian Saint Ierome and Saint Austine 100. If their authoritie be denyed and some new-fangled interpretations bee lately fancied framed and receiued by a few vaine-glorious nouelists to make voide the honour and priuiledge proper to the Bishops the Fathers and Gouernors of the Church whom they would shoulder out with them almost all good order the question must no longer be Whether Confirmation bee found in Scripture but Whether the ancient Fathers of the Primitiue Church were more likely to interpret the Scriptures truly or some late Nouelists who to maintaine some odde fancies of their owne braine haue forged new and strange glosses contrarie to Antiquitie the vnderstanding of Fathers and other Reformed Churches for those Churches that follow Luthers reformation vse Confirmation with so many of these circumstances as that Discipline can admit 101 Certainely our Church hath taken the safer course for we professe manente forma Confirmationis in suo ordine so long as that forme and order of Confirmation is obserued and no other then was vsed in the Apostles times and by the Apostles themselues quantumlibet quaerant Tertul. de Praescript c. 14. tractent omnem libidinem curiositatis effundant to vse Tertul. phrase let their braines work and their teeming wits bring forth some rare inuentions such as were neuer heard of neuer dreamed of before such as may discouer their various itching curiosities yet we hope the Church of England will as hitherto it hath euer continue constant in the same course wee doubt not but it will onely imitate the practise and embrace the enterpretations of those ancients who by the confession of the whole Church of God were gratia scientiae donati endowed with an extraordinary grace and gift of knowledge to vnderstand and interpret the will of God deliuered in the Scriptures 102. For as there was in the law before Christ liber Propheticus as Saint Ambrose cals it the booke of the Law and the Prophets Ambr. de Fide ad Gratianum l. 3. c. 7. which contained the types and prophesies of Christ which booke was signatus sealed vp so firmely at that time that neither Elders nor Powers nor Angels nor Archangels durst offer to vnfold it the prerogatiue of opening and explayning it being reserued onely to Christ himselfe so was there also in the primitiue times succeeding Christ Liber Sacerdotalis that is the Scriptures and the receiued sence of Scriptures penned by the Fathers Doctors