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A56120	A sermon preached in the Parish-Church of Bridgewater, July 16, 1693, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, at a confirmation by Fran. Prode ...	Prowde, Francis, 1653 or 4-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing P3879; ESTC R6025	16,780	34

Confirmation observing whence it deriv'd how it obtain'd and has been practis'd in the Church 2. I shall briefly observe the qualification of the Person to whom originally the Administration of it seems to have been assign'd 3. I shall answer some Objections which are brought against it And 4. and Lastly by way of Application I shall propound some Considerations evincing the Reasonableness Divine Excellency and Necessity of its Practice To begin with the First of these Particulars to wit to present a true and distinct Account of the Doctrine of Confirmation observing whence it deriv'd how it obtain'd and has been practised in the Church The learned Grotius tells us Grot. Annot Cap. 6. Paul ad Hebr. v. 2. that Imposition of Hands joyn'd with Prayer was peculiarly us'd in the Primitive Christian Church in these five following Cases Baptizatis ad obtinendam vim confirmantem spiritus sancti ordinatis ad Presbyterium post peccata reconciliatis Corpore infirmis imò novis conjugibus benedictionem ab Ecclesiâ postulantibus i. e. To those who have been baptiz'd in order to obtain the confirming Influence of the holy Spirit in ordination to the Penitent in cases of sickness and to the newly married And most of these if not all as he hints deriving from Hebrew Customs and to this purpose we find it recorded in these following parts of Divine Writ Gen. 48. Vers 14 15 and 16. And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head who was the younger and his left hand upon Manasses's head guiding his hands wittingly for Manasses was the first born And he blessed Joseph and said God before whom my Fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk the God that fed me all my life long bless the Lads Here we find the Laying on of the Hand joyned with Prayer used to conferr Divine Grace Thus we likewise find it practised Numb 6. vers 27. being an Account of that sacred Form of Blessing wherewith God himself taught Aaron and his Sons to bless the Children of Israel Our English Translation reads it They shall put my name upon the Children of Israel and I will bless them Junius and Tremellius paraphrase the words Et imponentes manus filiis Israelis invocabunt nomen meum ego benedicam eis Putting their Hands on the Children of Israel they shall pray to me for them and I will bless them And in their Notes on this Text of Scripture they add farther in these words duobus signis testatum facient Populo meo gratiam meam c. By these two Signs Calling on my Name and the solemn Laying on of their own Hands they shall assure my People of that Grace which I according to my Promise will bestow upon them And this Grace or the Effect of this Blessing as the Learned Dr. Patrick observes Dr. Pa●● Aqua g●●talis from some of the Jewish Rabbins used to be called the Weapons and Armour of Israel To the same purpose we read Numb 8. vers 10 11 and 14. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the Children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the Children of Israel and the Levites shall be mine I shall onely add one instance more Numb 27. vers 18. That when Moses was to leave the World and his troublesome Charge the Israelites he was order'd by God himself to constitute Joshua his Successour after this Manner And the Lord says the Text said unto Moses take thee Joshua the Son of Nun a Man in whom is the Spirit and Lay thine Hand upon him I might instance in other Passages to this same purpose but these are sufficient to point to us whence the Sacred usage of Imposition of Hands in the Christian Church deriv'd its Original And to apply this more particularly to our present Case The Jews having circumcised their Children at Eight days old so soon as they were capable of instruction they took the greatest care of them imaginable particularly when their Sons were five Years old they instructed them in the Text of the Law when they were ten Years old they put them to the Text of the Talmud and when they arriv'd at Thirteen they were publickly presented in an holy Assembly there solemnly to oblige themselves to be Filii praecepti subject to the Law to keep the Pascha Sabbath and the rest of their Ceremonies Veem's ●●eposit of ●●e Moral ●●w Bux●●rf Syn. ●●daic thence forward they were to answer for their own Sins and hereupon Prayer was made for them with the Imposition of the High-Priest's hands in order to the conferring Divine strength In short agreeable to these and such usages during the Patriarchal and Mosaick Oeconomies we find it practis'd under the Christian Dispensation For by Laying on of Hands as an applicatory Sign join'd with Prayer did our Saviour and his immediate Followers heal Diseases Thus our Blessed Lord demean'd himself toward the Children which came unto him he put his hands upon them and blessed them praising their inoffensive and unprejudic'd Tempers as resembling that happy habit of Thoughts which disposes to the Entertainment of his Divine Religion This Imposition of Hands join'd with Prayer we read our Saviour's Apostles evidently practis'd ●●●ts 6. v. 1. Thus they invested the seven Deacons in their Office thus Barnabas and Paul at Antioch were consecrated to that Divine undertaking which God had assign'd them Thus Timothy was ordain'd Bishop and thus all along in the Apostles Times it was an unquestionable and allow'd way to bless consecrate and conferr Grace by Prayer and the Laying on of Hands And thus particularly in reference to Confirmation these following Texts of Scripture are almost Universally interpreted as Precedents for our Instruction And not to insist on my Text which I have already explain'd thus we read Acts 19. vers 5 6. When they heard this they were baptiz'd in the Name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul had Laid his Hands upon them the Holy Ghost came on them and they spake with Tongues and prophesied Indeed we find mention'd here onely the miraculous Effects of the Holy Ghost they being absolutely necessary then and allowed by the Divine Power and Wisdom for the infant State of the Church But as the saving Gifts of the Holy Spirit were promis'd by our Saviour to the End of the World and were ever necessary so it must be allow'd That they were then conferr'd though the External operations which presently demonstrated their Collation perhaps for that Reason onely are particulariz'd But farther the Doctrine of Confirmation is plainly recorded in Hebrews 6. vers 2. Therefore says the Apostle in the First Verse of that Chapter leaving the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead Works and of faith toward God of the Doctrine of