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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64128	A sermon preached at the consecration of two archbishops and ten bishops, in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick in Dublin, January 27, 1660 by Jeremie Taylor ...	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing T391; ESTC R23465	25,378	54

and holiness and the demonstrations of the spirit This is experimentum ejus qui in nobis loquitur Christus The experiment of Christ that speaketh in us For to this purpose those are excellent words which St. Paul spake Remember them who have the rule over you whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation There lyes the demonstration and those Prelates who teach good life whose Sermons are the measures of Christ and whose life is a coppy of their Sermons these must be followed and surely these will for these are burning and shining lights but if we hold forth false fires and by the amusement of evil examples call the vessels that sail upon a dangerous Sea to come upon a rock or an iron shore instead of a safe harbour we cause them to make shipwrack of their precious faith and to perish in the deceiptful and unstable waters Vox operum fortiùs sonat quàm verborum A good life is the strongest argument that your faith is good and a gentle voice will be sooner entertaind then a voice of thunder but the greatest eloquence in the world is a meek Spirit and a liberal hand these are the two pastoral staves the Prophet speaks of nognam hovelim beauty and bands he that hath the staff of the beauty of holiness the ornament of fair example he hath also the staff of bands atque in funiculis Adam trahet eos in vinculis charitatis as the Prophet Hosea's expression is he shall draw the people after him by the cords of a man by the bands of a holy charity But if against all these demonstrations any man will be refractary We have in stead of a staff an Apostolical rod which is the last and latest remedy and either brings to repentance or consignes to ruin and reprobation If there were any time remaining I could reckon that the Episcopal order is the principle of Vnity in the Church and we see it is so by the innumerable Sects that sprang up when Episcopacy was persecuted I could adde how that Bishops were the cause that St. Iohn wrote his Gospel that the Christian Faith was for 300 years together bravely defended by the sufferings the prisons and the flames the life and the death of Bishops as the principal Combatants That the Fathers of the Church whose writings are held in so great veneration in all the Christian World were almost all of them Bishops I could adde that the Reformation of Religion in England was principally by the Preachings and the disputings the vvritings and the Martyrdom of Bishops That Bishops have ever since been the greatest defensatives against Popery That England and Ireland were Governed by Bishops ever since they were Christian and under their conduct have for so many ages enjoyed all the blessings of the Gospel I could adde also that Episcopacy is the great stabiliment of Monarchy but of this we are convinc'd by a sad and too dear bought experience I could therefore in stead of it say that Episcopacy is the great ornament of Religion the Gentry being little better then Servants while they live under the Presbytery That as it rescues the Clergy from contempt so it is the greatest preservative of the peoples liberty from Ecclesiastick Tyranny on one hand and Anarchy and licentiousness on the other That it endears obedience And is subject to the Laws of Princes And is wholly ordained for the good of mankind and the benefit of Souls But I cannot stay to number all the blessings which have entered into the world at this door I onely remark these because they describe unto us the Bishops imployment which is to be buisy in the service of Souls to do good in all capacities to serve every mans need to promote all publick benefits to cement Governments to establish peace to propagate the Kingdom of Christ to do hurt to no man to do good to every man that is so to minister that Religion and Charity publick peace and private blessings may be in their exaltation As long as it was thus done by the Primitive Bishops the Princes and the People gave them all honour Insomuch that by a decree of Constantine the great the Bp. had power given him to retract the sentences made by the Presidents of Provinces and we find in the acts of St. Nicholas that he rescued some innocent persons from death when the executioner was ready to strike the fatal blow which thing even vvhen it fell into inconvenience was indeed forbidden by Arcadius and Honorlus but the confidence and honour was onely chang'd it was not taken away for the condemned criminal had leave to appeal to the Audientia Episcopalis to the Bps Court. This was not any right which the Bishops could challenge but a reward of their piety and so long as the Holy Office was holily administred the World found so much comfort and security so much justice and mercy so many temporal and spiritual blessings consequent to the ministeries of that order that as the Galatians to St. Paul men have plucked out their eys to do them service and to do them honour For then Episcopacy did that good that God intended by it it was a spiritual Government by spiritual persons for spiritual ends Then the Princes and the People gave them honours because they deserv'd and sought them not then they gave them wealth because they would dispend it wisely frugally and charitably Then they gave them power because it was sure to be us'd for defence of the innocent for relief of the oppressed for the punishment of evil doers and the reward of the virtuous Then they desir'd to be judg'd by them because their audiences or Courts did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they appeas'd all furious sentences and taught gentle principles and gave merciful measures and in their Courts were all equity and piety and Christian determinations But afterwards when they did fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into saecular methods and made their Counsels vain by pride and durtyed their sentences with money then they became like other men and so it will be unless the Bps be more holy then other men but when our sanctity and severity shall be as eminent as the calling is then we shall be called to Councels and sit in publick meetings and bring comfort to private Families and rule in the hearts of men by a jus relationis such as was between the Roman Emperors and the Senate they courted one another into power and in giving honour striv'd to out do each other for from an humble wise man no man will snatch an imployment that is honourable but from the proud and from the covetuous every man endeavours to wrest it and thinks it lawful prize My time is now done and therefore I cannot speak to the third part of my text the reward of the good Steward and of the bad I shall onely mention it to you in a short exhortation and so conclude In the Primitive