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water_n	baptize_v	jesus_n	john_n	3,386	5	6.8394	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68091	A preparation to the most holie ministerie wherein is set downe the true meanes to be well prepared to the same, by an exact description, and consideration, of the necessitie, excellencie, difficultie, and great profit therof; with the maruellous effects of the same: also a liuely exhortation to all youth, to giue themselues to the studie therof: and a confutation of the obiections which may be brought in any sort to touch the same: verie profitable and necessarie in these our times, ... Diuided into two bookes. Written in French by Peter Gerard, and translated into English by N.B.	Gerard, Pierre.	1598 (1598)	STC 11754; ESTC S108635	151,047	320

reliques of sinne and naturall vncleannesse It is verie true that it is to bee desired that in those which be such men that nothing bee seene to shine in them but examples of godlinesse and of all Christian vertues in which no earthly thing may bee perceiued but seeing that it is impossible that they shuld be altogither vncladde of the olde ragges of our first Parent Adam in vaine this is to bee looked for Neither is this the meaning of Saint Paule but onely that they be vnreproueable VVhat it is to be vnreproueable in regard of notorious offences of all criminall cases that they bee not conuinced of infamous and shamefull sinnes for which they which commit them are called to iudgemēt as to commit adultery fornication murther theft briberie or to haue borne false witnesse against any man such like For in truth if any one being apprehended in these grosse and palpable crimes haue beene admitted to this charge and that it bee knowne it must needes cause great offences in the Church of God seeing that the Pastor should not onely haue a good testimonie of those that be of the same Church but also of straungers But if it commeth to passe that the Pastor bee sometimes a little intemperate in his actions as if it chaunceth that he drinke more then ordinarie or bee made angrie or enuious or ambitious or tickled with some such like passion which is not so well ordered as hee himselfe desireth as to bee a little too much giuen to his profite to bee vnthankefull troublesome hard to please sowre too carefull neuerthelesse hee taketh no pleasure in these vices and goeth about to extenuate them and to correct them euerie day such things hinders not but that he may be vnreproueable For if none shoulde bee admitted into the Ministrie but those which are altogether voyde of such infirmities into which they often fall as well as others it must of necessitie be concluded that we should haue no Ministers at all Wherefore the Donatists haue badly reasoned when to maintaine that the Ministrie of the worde of God serued to no vse they haue concluded that no filthy and vnclean thing could be clēsed by that which is vncleane For say they Ministers which ought to preach the word of God and administer the sacraments are defiled with vices as other men wherby the Ministrie looseth his force and efficacie they are greatly I say deceiued for besides that the reason before alledged is very sufficient it may further be added that neither the preaching of the worde of God nor the administration of the sacraments haue no force at all frō the person of the minister but frō the ordinance commandement of God seeing that he hath instituted thē to this end And we may obserue hereby that this reason is of such force that although a minister be wicked and spotted with those vices of which S. Paul would haue him cleansed and who was lawfully called his impietie being vnknowne his ministerie shall not cease to bee of power the reason is because he exerciseth his Ministrie not in his owne name but in the name of God of whome dependeth all the force of the Ministrie whereof he is author alone Moreouer wee affirme that although Saint Cyprian hath sayd that Baptisme doth confirme remission of sinnes and that the force of the said Baptisme doth depende of the qualitie of the Pastour that this great Doctour hath erred in this poynt as well as many others which wee do of purpose set downe to the ende that the authoritie of such a person sh●ulde not diminish the reason alledged by vs the which we may confirme by many testimonies of the Scripture but this shall suffice that when Iohn Baptist the forerunner of Christ Iesus shewed the comming of Iesus Christ and baptized In baptizing he sayde I baptise you with water but he that commeth after mee shall baptise you with the holy Ghost for in so saying it is all one as if hee had sayde that it is not the Minister of the outwarde signe but that Iesus Christ is hee which giueth force and vertue to his baptisme by the secrete and inwarde operation of his spirit In like sort wee may speake of the word of God because it hath the same reason that the Minister can do nothing else but propound vnto the people by a liuely voice but god must giue vnderstanding imprint that which is spoken in their harts to make thē to feele the power therof He then that desireth to bee a minister he must take heed not onely to be pure and without reproofe of these grosse notorious vices but also of other lighter faults For although it hath bin said that if a Minister be giuen to cōmit some smal offence yet neuerthelesse he is without reproofe our meaning is not in any sort to flatter or to make faults lesse thē they are whatsoeuer they be for if he letteth loose the bridle too much to those vices of which we haue made mention before and thinks that he ought not to be put by in desiring this charge we say that it is as detestable to God as beeing polluted with some horrible infamous crime yet neuerthelesse is promoted to the Ministry seeing that god vnto whō he must giue account of his charge hath in as great horror those vices which seem saml as those which are more apparant we cal these small faults as couetousnesse ambition enuie and many such like because they are so ordinarily esteemed of men but if wee suffer our selues to be caried too far herein they become so great that they be as violēt streames that carry vs before thē into many downfals Nowe let vs see those mischiefes which they procure to thēselues which run too far into those sins that we may the better beware also the beauty of those vertues which are desired of a Pastor to be followed keeping the order afterward ensuing When S. Paul saith that a bishop must be the husband of one wife How it is to be vnderstood that a bishop must be the husband of one wife although that doth not properly appertaine to the matter in hand yet neuerthelesse seeing that S. Paul setteth downe a discription of the maner of a Pastor wee will breefely speake something therof Although there haue been many that haue drawne out diuers expositions vpon this place yet the best that which is to be preferred before other is that of saint Chrysostome who saith that heere plainly poligamy is forbidden in a Bishop the which the Iewes held as a law in their time of which they were not ashamed because they were easily drawn to giue way to the marriage of many wiues being prouoked on both sides first whē they read in the old Testament that Abraham Iacob Dauid and many other had at one time many wiues they might perswade themselues that it was lawful for them also as commonly it is seene that there is nothing of