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A66440 The pattern of ecclesiastical ordination, or, Apostolick separation being a discourse upon Acts the 13. 4,5 ... / by Edward Wakeman ... Wakeman, Edward. 1664 (1664) Wing W275; ESTC R5294 23,139 44

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appointment In the text they were sent by him upon his Bestowing that Power which the Prophets at Antioch bid them receive at their laying on of hands So then from the Holy Ghost comes all Power to exercise any sacred Ministerial Office in the Church of God This was the chiefest business of God the Father and God the Sons breathing forth or sending down the Holy Ghost from Heaven to qualify and make some fit for the performance of Church-work with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his gifts according to their several stations and capacities for when Christ gave the gifts of the Holy Ghost to men Ephes 4.8 He gave some Apostles some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministery verse the 11 And as a learned observer says very well All the reason in the world that he should have a special hand in giving where himself is to be received Receive ye the Holy Ghost Joh. 20.22 Whosoever therefore undertakes this Warfare for so the work of the Levites is often call'd in the book of Numbers without a Commission from him viz. the Holy Ghost though he make pretence of never so plausible Intentions is but a Traytor to the Holy Ghost and can look for no better thanks than Uzzah had for his Officious Prophanation For though there be mention here of Apostles only receiving the Holy Ghost 't is evident they receiv'd not this Gift as Apostles but as entring into an Ecclesiastical Ministery else why did they impart the same afterwards to Bishops and Presbyters which St. Pauls History and Writings do abundantly witness The text then doth as nearly concern Us at present in the Christian Church as if Paul and Barnabas had been now ordained Priests So that I may without offence I hope to the scope of the History take a view of it especially as it represents us with the Priests Ordination the chief business of this present solemnity And that we may be the better ascertain'd that it is the Holy Ghost who gives this Power let us enquire so far as we may what the Power is and how distinguished from other Gifts of the Holy Ghost who thus commissions Not to run too far backwards but to begin with the Apostles themselves You may observe in the Gospel that the Holy Ghost is twice promised by our Saviour to his Apostles once under the promise of the Keys in the 16 of St. Matthew v. the 18. about two years before his Passion afterwards under the promise of a Comforter or as the learned Grotius translates it an Advocate Luke 24.49 after his Resurrection though ye shall find the same Promise made unto them and often repeated the Day before his Passion in the 14 15 and 16. chapters of St. John and some moneths before that to all Beleevers St. John 7.38 and yet sooner to his Apostles in the 10. of St. Mat. v. the 20 The Former of these was performed after his Resurrection S. John 20.22 when he said unto them Receive ye the holy Ghost whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained The Latter was performed upon the day of Pentecost as appears in the second of the Acts of the Apostles when the holy Ghost came down from Heaven in the shape of cloven fiery Tongues which came as it were in a windy rushing Chariot and sate upon each of them yea and inspired them with the Gift of Tongues verse 1 2 3 c. Now Both these gifts had a Power annex'd unto them With the First was a Power of the Keys The Other was a Power from on high a Power of conviction by Miracles When the Comforter is come he shall convince the world of Sin of Righteousness of Judgment St. John 16.8 A Power of Answering for themselves without taking thought before hand When they should be brought before Governours for the name and the cause of Christ St. Mat. 10.18 19 20. And a Power of knowledge of the truth St. John 14.26 The Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things You shall find a third Power given by Christ to his Apostles immediately upon having created them Apostles a power of Miracles St. Mat. 10.1 He gave them Power against unclean Spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of Sickness and all manner of Disease There is Lastly another sort of Gifts of the Holy Ghost which though they were always in the Church of God yet Now first came under that name And those are such as the Apostle reckons up in the 12 of his Epistle to the Rom. v. the 8. He that giveth let him do it with simplicity He that ruleth with diligence He that sheweth mercy with cheerfulness Together with several other graces which he reckons up and calls Gifts in the 6. verse Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us and Fruit of the Spirit in his 5. to the Gal. v. the 22. That these Ghostly Gifts of the fourth kind of Sanctifying Graces are perpetually to be enjoyed by the faithful is confess'd on all hands That the Power of Miracles which the Apostles exercised while Christ was upon the Earth was a Gift Extraordinary and not to out-last their own times will be easily admitted among us and the same of that which was given at the Feast of Pentecost excepting that part of it mentioned in the 14. of St. John The Gift of knowledge which we must warily distinguish what it was in the Apostles and what in the succeeding Church They had in its Fulness they were taught all things by it but after ages had only that Proportion which seemed good to the Author and Disposer of it For Should we leave this wholly among the Extraordinary Gifts of the Apostles we had quite relinquishd our interest in the Comforter and should have no more reason to look for him at our Veni Creator than to expect the mighty rushing Wind or the Sound from Heaven or the Cloven Tongues as of Fire The controversie then lies in the Gift first named which is the same we enquire after some making it the same with Sanctifying Grace some the same with Grace Enabling for the Performance which I take to be nothing else but that Gift of Knowledge under the second kind of Graces mentioned and of these some there are in our own Church I mean who think it nothing inferiour to that which the Apostles had A plain Infallibility The rest confound it with that Gift of the Comforter as it belongs to the Universal Church They that think it the same with Sanctifying Grace to say no more must needs forget that Judas Iscariot in whom was little or no sign rather of Sanctifying Grace when he betrayed his Master was one of the twelve and if we may draw any parallel from the Law that Caiaphas the High Priest prophesied St.