Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	jurisdiction_n	power_n	1,683	5	4.9363	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

And they chose Stephen a man full of faith and full of the holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Permenas and Nicholas a conuert of Antioch These they set before the Apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them And the word of God increased and the number of the Disciples multiplied in Ierusalem greatly and a great company of the Priests were obedient vnto the faith And before the Gospel the Bishop sitting in a chaire shall cause the Oath of the Kings supremacie and against the power and authority of all forreigne Potentates to bee ministred vnto euery of them that are to be ordered ❧ The Oath of the Kings Soueraignetie I A. B. doe vtterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the Kings Highnesse is the onely supreme Gouernour of this Realme of all other his Highnes Dominions and Countries as well in all spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporall and that no forraigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to haue any iurisdiction power superiority preeminence or authority Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme and therefore I doe vtterly renounce and forsake all forreigne Iurisdictions Powers Superiorities and authorities and doe promise that from henceforth I shall beare faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successours and to my power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Priuiledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highnes his Heires and Successours or vnited and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme so helpe me God and the Contents of this Booke Then shall the Bishop examine euery one of them that are to bee ordered in the presence of the people after this manner following DOe you trust that you are inwardly moued by the holy Ghost to take vpon you this office and ministration to serue God for the promoting of his glory and the edifying of his people Answere I trust so The Bishop Doe you thinke that yee truly bee called according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the due order of this Realme to the Ministery of the Church Answere I thinke so The Bishop Doe you vnfainedly beleeue all the Canonicall Scriptures of the old and new Testament Answere I doe beleeue The Bishop VVIll you diligently reade the same vnto the people assembled in the Church where you shall be appointed to serue Answere I will The Bishop IT appertaineth to the office of a Deacon in the Church where he shall be appointed to assist the Priest in diuine Seruice and specially when he ministreth the holy Communion and to helpe him in distribution therof and to reade holy Scriptures and Homilies in the Congregation and to instruct the youth in the Catechisme to Baptize and to Preach if he be admitted thereto by the Bishop And furthermore it is his office where prouision is so made to search said vnto him Feed my sheepe Hee said vnto him the third time Simon Iohanna louest thou me Peter was sorry because he said vnto him the third time Louest thou me And hee said vnto him Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I loue thee Iesus said vnto him Feed my sheepe Or else out of the tenth Chapter of Iohn as before in the order of Priests After the Gospel and Creed ended first the elected Bishop shall be presented by two Bishops vnto the Archbishop of that Prouince or to some other Bishop appointed by his commission the Bishops that present him saying MOst reuerend Father in God we present vnto you this godly and well learned man to be consecrated Bishop Then shall the Archbishop demand the Kings mandate for the consecration and cause it to be read and the Oath touching the knowledge of the Kings Supremacie shall be ministred to the persons elected as it is set out in the order of Deacons And then shall be ministred the Oath of due obedience vnto the Archbishop as followeth The Oath of due obedience to the Archbishop IN the Name of God Amen I. N. chosen Bishop of the Church and See of N. doe professe and promise all due reuerence and obedience to the Archbishop and to the Metropoliticall Church of N. and to their successors so helpe me God through Iesus Christ This Oath shall not be made at the Consecration of an Archbishop Then the Archbishop shall mooue the Congregation present to pray saying thus to them BRethren it is written in the Gospel of S. Luke that our Sauiour Christ continued the whole night in prayer or euer that he did chuse and send forth his twelue Apostles It is written also in the Acts of the Apostles that the Disciples which were at Antioch did fast and pray or euer they laid hands vpon or sent forth Paul and Barnabas Let vs therefore following the example of our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles first fall to prayer or that we admit and send forth this person presented vnto vs to the worke whereunto we trust the holy Ghost hath called him And then shall be said the Letanie as afore in the order of Deacons And after this place That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops c. he shall say That it may please thee to blesse this our brother elected and to send thy grace vpon him that hee may duely execute the office whereunto hee is called to the edifying of thy Church and to the honour praise and glory of thy Name Answere We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. Concluding the Letanie in the end with this prayer ALmighty God giuer of all good things which by thy holy spirit hast appointed diuers orders of Ministers in thy Church mercifully behold this thy seruant now called to the worke and ministery of a Bishop and replenish him so with the truth of thy doctrine and innocencie of life that both by word and deed he may faithfully serue thee in this office to the glory of thy Name and profit of thy congregation through the merits of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost world without end Amen Then the Archbishop sitting in a chaire shall say to him that is to bee consecrated BRother for as much as holy Scripture and the old Canons commandeth that we should not be hasty in laying on hands and admitting of any person to the gouernement of the Congregation of Christ which he hath purchased with no lesse price then the effusion of his owne blood afore I admit you to this administration whereunto you are called I will examine you in certaine articles to the end the Congregation present may haue a tryall and beare witnes how ye be minded to behaue your selfe in the Church of God Are you perswaded that you bee truly called to this ministration according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the order of this Realme Answere I am so perswaded The Archbishop ARe you perswaded that the holy Scriptures