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A55769	Confirmation confirmed and recommended from Scripture, antiquity, and reason in a sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Mary in Sarum, at a solemn confirmation there administered by the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey, Lord Bishop of Sarum / by John Priaulx ...	Priaulx, John, 1614?-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing P3330; ESTC R9213	31,118	42

their religion and with a sincere heart after this followed the parties profession of the whole Jewish religion and of his assent to it in every part and this was done before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Triumviri which were to take that profession which if they judged sincere the Party was admitted by Circumcision Baptisme and Sacrifice at least by the two latter into the rank and priviledges of an Israelite If any had slipt in without this examination or there were grounds to presume that he had but dissembled in it though the Rites of his Initiation were not repeated no more then Baptisme among Christians z Seldenus ubi supra yet was he not publickly admitted till by the sentence of the Sanhedrim it appeared that freely and out of love he had given up himself to their Religion that willingly he embraced it Thus you see the care of the Synagogue in this particular which was after Copied out Second By the Christian Church If we look upon the Scripture to omit other places of a like import take but that of S. Peter 1 Pet. 3.21 where Baptisme is called The answer of a good conscience towards God the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying as all Learned men doe agree metonymically or by Synecdoche the answer or rather the a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz Orat. in Sanctum Baptisma Grot. Annot. Stipulation consisting of the Interrogatories of Baptisme and the answer returned by him that is Baptized undertaking to believe and live like a Christian as Grotius fully shews in his Annotations And then answerable unto these Patterns was the practice of the Primitive Church afterwards as appears by their care about the Catechumeni These had a b Qui Doctor Audientium dicitur Cypr. Epist 24. Catechist allowed them for their instruction besides the assistance of that c Vid. Dionys Areopag Ecclesiastiae Hierarchiae cap. 2. Sect. 2. cap. 7 8 11. Christian friend which was to bring them to the Bishop Neither came they to Baptisme nisi de rebus Fidei plane instructi till they were instructed in all matters of Faith the mysteries of the Lords Supper onely excepted nor were they Baptized nisi postquam ea omnia se credere jurassent till they had sworn their belief of them saith Albaspinae us d Vide Albaspinaeum in Tertull. de Paenitentia fol. 289. and as to their purpose of living they solemnly swore to forsake sin so the same Authour After this followed their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their solemn abrenuntiations of the Devil and his Pomps which were e Dionys Areop de Ecclesiastica Hierarchiae cap. 2. Sect. 6 7. thrice pronounced with their Faces towards the West and then their no lesse solemn professions of their Faith thrice made towards the East which professions were entred into a f Dionys Areop de Ecclesiastic Hierarch cap. Sect. 5. Register and Subscribed Unto which were added in divers Churches severall Scrutinies and so in the fourth g Concil Carthag 4. Can. 85. Councill of Carthage Can. 85. we read of a crebra Examinatio an often Examination which was to go before Baptisme which Scrutinies were about h Albinus de divinis offic Cap. de Sabbato Sancto Paschae their Faith and Manners and purpose of holy living and these held publickly in Conspectu totius Ecclesiae in the sight of the whole Church as appears by S. Augustine lib. 2. de Symbol ad Catechumenos In brief Fidem Christianam Christianumque vivendi genus mores sese amplexos persequuturosque jurabant antequam baptizarentur so i Albaspinaeus ubi supra Vide Iustin Martyr in Apologia ad Antoninum sub fine Albaspinaeus They sware that they embraced and would stick to the Christian Faith would live and behave themselves as Christians and all this before they were baptized So great 〈◊〉 care was taken by the Church then for the securing that profession we plead for in those which were of age But now our case being usually such that our Children are Baptized when they are Infants it hath been the wisdome of our Church to provide 1. k Order of Confirmation That their Confirmation be deferred till they come to years of discretion and 2. That then having learned what was promised in their behalf by their Sureties they may with their own mouth and their own consent before the Church ratifie and confirm the same and also promise that by the Grace of God they will evermore endeavour themselves faithfully to observe and keep such things as they by their own mouth and confession have assented to And this is as much if duely performed as any in reason can demand for a Church-assurance that men may be look't upon as Believers But that was not the onely qualification of these Samaritanes they were 2. Baptized and what ever Wickliffe in l Vide Bellar. de confirmatione cap. 12. Bellarmine is said to have affirmed rigtly too by S. Philip Legitimum Ecclesiasticum Baptismum consequuti fuerunt saith S. m Cyprian Iubaianum Cyprian they had received lawfull Church-baptisme and yet the Apostles which best understood the Orders and wants of the Church lay hands on them quod deerat a Petro Johanne factum est saith the same Father what was wanting was supplyed by Peter and John wanting to what not to their Baptisme sure that was granted before but to the Baptized being capable of this Ordinance something was And if any shall ask the Question we meet with in n Euseb Emissenus sive Eucherius Lugdunens Homil. in Pentecost Eusebius Emissenus or Eucherius Lugdunensis as some will have it in his Homily upon Pentecost Quid mihi prodest post mysterium Baptismatis ministerium Confirmantis what profit shall I receive by the ministry of Confirmation having received the mystery of Baptisme St. Cyprian will tell him the id quod deerat what was wanting to these namely ut oratione pro iis habitâ manu imposita c. That by prayer made for them and laying on of hands upon them the Apostles might invoke and poure on them the Holy Ghost and from thence we may gather That Baptized persons may have yet further need of Confirmation for the ministry of the Holy Ghost unto them In the former verse we read that the Holy Ghost had not fallen on any of them there was need of a further Ordinance for that which being performed we presently find in the Text that they received him which brings me to the Fift and last Particular the Effect or Consequent of this laying on of the Apostles hands in those words And they received the Holy Ghost True say some we believe and acknowledge that the Ceremony was then very allowable while the Holy Ghost was to be communicated as here to these Samaritans which was in a miraculous manner to enable them to speak with Tongues to Prophesie and the like but alas