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A44779	A sermon preached at the first visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Ralph, Lord Bishop of Chichester, holden there Septemb. 20th, 1675 by William Howell ...	Howell, William, 1631 or 2-1683.	1676 (1676)	Wing H3144; ESTC R6553	17,200	37

parts viz. 1. Saint Paul's Charge 2. Archippus his Duty 3. The reason of it I begin with Saint Paul's charge And say to Archippus but who must say to Archippus the Colossians but had they power to admonish their Minister Yes saith Calvin Saint Paul might have admonished him in his own private name but he enjoyns this on the Colossians that they might know that they also ought to give incitement to their Pastour if they see him cold and the Pastour should not refuse admonition from the Church In Loc. But what admonition must he submit unto take an Answer from Pareus who among other porismata draws these two from these words 1. The Church hath right to admonish or also to reprove and depose its Minister that keeps not within the bounds of his Office either by neglecting it or not rightly performing it 2. The Pastour ought to submit himself to the mature judgement of the Church and humbly acknowledge from whom he hath received his Office But I pray what Church is this whereunto the Pastour must submit himself and make his humble acknowledgements why here we are left to guess only our Author tells us A small Assembly deserves the name of a Church Had he thought fit to have spoken plainly 't is manifestly most likely he would have said that by the Church he understood a Presbyterian Consistory for this Church whatever it be in it self must needs have the government on its shoulder and in contradistinction to its Pastour it must needs consist either of the Laity or inferiour Officers or joyntly of both To these then it is that they ascribe right to admonish reprove and depose their Pastour But surely Saint Paul hath taught them no such thing for not only the Examination and Ordination but also the Admonition Suspension and Deposition of Ministers he hath reserved as appears very fully by his Epistles to Timothy and Titus to such as they were i. e. to Bishops Thus surely the Primitive Church understood him for not only by divers of those Canons Can. 32 37 ●4 Conc. Nic. Can. 5. Conc. Const Can. 6. Conc. Ephes Can. 5. Conc. Cha●c Can. 8 9. which are said to be the Apostles but also by the Fifth Canon of the First the Sixth of the Second the Fifth of the Third the Eighth and the Ninth of the Fourth general Council all the Censures of the Church or the exercise of Ecclesiastical Discipline was put into the hands of the Bishops In matters Ecclesiastical no Lay-men except the Emperour were to judge the Clergy all others were allowed only to be Witnesses against them nor were they allowed that neither while they were under sentence of Excommunication or the imputation of Heresie Conc. Constant Can 6. Schisme or any other grievous crime But in case any thing were objected by credible persons against any Clergy-man under the Order of a Bishop the Bishop of the Diocess was to judge of it and inflict punishment for it but in case the party accused did not acquiesce in the Censure of his Diocesan there was liberty of Appeal to a Provincial Synod i. e. to a Synod wherein all the Bishops of the Province were to be gathered together for the examination and decision of such Controversies which Provincial Synod the first Council of Nice appointed to be held twice in a year Can. 5. Although afterwards by reason of the incursions of barbarous Nations and other causes incident these Synods were held but once in the year yet from that time till the year 1541. or thereabouts Concil in Trullo can 8. when Calvin's platform first drew breath at Geneva I cannot finde it was ever appointed that Ministers for matters appertaining to their Office should be admonished much less deposed by the Laity or the Clergy in their own Churches inferiour to them If then that had been the Discipline appointed by Christ and here required by Saint Paul how wonderful a thing is it that the Church so soon after their departure out of the World should change it for another Very strange and almost impossible it is that the whole Church of Christ for above a thousand years together should either wholly forget my Text or else be ignorant of its meaning or so petulantly wicked as to suppress and act contrary to it yet so it seems it was till the World was blessed with such Comments as those before mentioned whereby the people may understand their priviledge to teach and admonish their Teachers and to contend with Gods Ministers in matters too high for their capacities But we have not so learned to expound the holy Scripture Observe therefore that this Charge of Saint Paul concerning Archippus is ushered in with the copulative Conjunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and which I think is seldom or never so used as to joyn Words and Sentences together which have no connection in Nature or Signification if so then thence it may probably be conjectured that the Charge in this Verse is connected in its kind or nature as well as scituation with that that we find immediatly foregoing and what is that why it is another charge that Saint Paul gives concerning this Epistle now written and another whatever it was from Laodicea that this should be read in the Church of the Laodiceans and that that should be read in the Church of the Colossians The designed end of this Charge manifestly is to uphold Communion between these two Churches that they might edifie each other in love Saint Chrysostome therefore bids his Reader see how he glues and joyns them together In ver 16. not only by salutations but also by the mutual exhibition of Epistles this he does not do rashly but that he might draw others to the study of the same things Hereunto the conjunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 connects the charge in my Text think ye then that this hath no affinity with that That that should tend to the sweet and pleasant imploy of promoting Charity and Communion but this to the sowr ungrateful work of admonition which we know from inferiours is for the most part more apt to engender anger than to produce amendment that St. Paul should require the Colossians to hold Communion with the Laodiceans their fellow-Christians somewhat remote from them and then in the very next line charge them to admonish yea it may be chide with and depose Archippus their Minister that laboured or at least lived among them how unlikely a thing is it that he should couple such charges together No saith St. Chrysostom it was unreasonable to appoint the disciples to admonish their Teacher When Solomon charged his Son to say unto Wisdom Prov. 7.4 Thou art my Sister did he thereby constitute his Son to be wisdoms Monitor No surely he only enjoyned him to love and adhere to her to be ruled guided by her so here when St. Paul charges the Colossians to say to Archippus he means not to make them