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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	apostle_n	bishop_n	timothy_n	4,167	5	10.7647	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41006	Dr. Daniel Featley revived, or, The faithfull shepheard a sermon preached at the consecration of three bishops, the lords elect of Oxford, Bristoll, and Chester, in His Graces chappell at Lambeth, May, 9, 1619 / by ... Daniell Featley ... ; and now reprinted at the sole charge of George Vineing ...	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1661 (1661)	Wing F580; ESTC R5460	16,007	24

more stresse upon it The proper and full signification of the word is pastorum agere to play the good shepherd or exercise the function of a Pastor which consisteth in three things especially 1 Docendo quid facere debeant 2 Orando ut facere possint 3 Increpando si non faciant 1 In teaching those of his flock what they ought to do 2 In praying that they may do it 3 In reproving if they do it not All which may be reduced to a threefold feeding 1 With the Word Ier. 3. 2 With the Sacraments Apoc. 2. Ioh. 6. 3 With the Rod Micah 7. 14. To feed with the Word and Sacrament is the common duty of all Pastors but to feed with the rod is reserved to Bishops they are Seraphims holding the spiritul sword of excommunication in their hands to guard the tree of life whose speciall office and eminent degree in the Church is implied in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the vulgar latine rendreth providentes but Saint Augustine more agreeable to the Etymology supervidentes super-visors or super-intendents Yet this is but a generall notation of the name every Bishop is a super-visour or over-seer but every super-visour is not a Bishop The Lacedaemonian Magistrates were called Epori which is an equivalent stile to Episcopi and Constantine the great spake as truly as piously to his Bishops Yee reverend Fathers are Bishops of them that are within the Church but I of them that are out of the Church where your pastoral staffe is too short I will piece it out and lengthen it with my scepter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the most proper and restrained signification is to exercise Episcopal Authority or perform the office of a Bishop which consisteth in two things 1 In ordaining 2 Ordering 1 Giving orders 2 Keeping order Saint Paul giveth Titus both in charge for this cause I left thee in Crete to ordain Elders in every Church there is the first to wit ordination and to set in order things that are wanting or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to correct things out of order there is the second viz. ordering or reformation Timothy likewise the first Consecrated Bishop of Ephesus is put in mind of these branches of his Episcopal function of the first Lay hands suddenly on no man of the second Against an Elder receive not an accusation but under two or three witnesses Them that sinne rebuke before all that others also may fear Be not partaker of any mans sinnes to wit by not censuring or punishing them These two offices to be most necessary in the Church every mans reason and common experience will inform us For how shall we have Ministers at all without Ordination and how shall we have good Ministers or people without visitation Now for Presbyters or Ministers who are equal in degree to exercise authority one over the other and lay hands upon themselves and so to become their own ghostly Fathers is to make order it self a confusion Therefore God in the law put a difference between the Priests and Levits and Christ in the Gospel between the Apostles and Disciples and the Apostles after Christs death between Bishops and Elders Which the primitive Church kept so religiously that to oppose it in practise was accounted no lesse them sacriledge in doctrine flat heresie The first that I find ever to have gone about to break down the partition wall between Bishops and Presbyters was Aerius a man like this name was light and aery easily carried away with the winde of ambition For as Apiphanius writeth standing for a Bishoprick and missing it he invented this heresie to comfort himself and because he could not raise up himself to the high rank of Bishops he sought to pull them down to his lower rank of Elders What difference saith he is there between a Bishop and Priest none at all their order and honour and dignity is one and the self-same But for this his sawcy malepartnesse he felt the smart of the Crosier staffe and for ranking Bishops among Presbyters or Elders he was himself ranked among hereticks God who made greater and lesser lights in the firmament and set Angels in ranks one above another hath erected an Hierarchy upon earth which as he hath ever yet so I hope he still will to the end of the world establish and support and propagate it as it hath wonderfully supported and propagated the Church The bounds thereof extended by the preaching and kept by the Government of Bishops the Hereticks and Schismaticks in all ages suppressed by Councels and Synods of Bishops the Rubricks of Ecclesiastical Kalendars coloured with the blood of so many martyred Bishops are sufficient evidence thereof And as the Church soon after her first plantation exceedingly prospered under the shade of Iames Bishop of Hierusalem Titus of Crete Timothy of Ephesus Mark of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch Antipas of Pargamus Polycarpe of Smyrna and divers others ordained by the Apostles or their immediate successors and in succeeding ages received her best sap and nourishment from the Greek and Latine Fathers who for the most part were Bishops so Beza himself acknowledgeth it to have been the singular happinesse of the Church of England which he prayeth may be perpetual that this reverend and sacred order hath yeelded not only famous Martyrs but also most excellent Doctors and Pastors As the Poet blazing the vertues of the Emperour then reigning said Te volet invictus pro libertate Camillus Si Cato redd●tur Caesarianus erit Brutus and Camillus and Cato the greatest sticklers for the liberty of the Commonwealth if they were now alive would turn Royalists so we may truly affirm that the greatest enemies of Episcopal Jurisdiction could not but approve of such Bishops as now sit at the stern in our Church And what if all are not such must the whole order suffer for their sake Desine paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes lay not upon all the fault of some If one or other bud of Aarons rod the Bishoprick of Rome and the dependants thereon are turned into serpents shall the whole rod be cast out of the Arke and Ionah's gourd put in the place thereof I mean the new sprung up mushrome the Government of lay Elders Elders whereof no Elder age of the Church ever took notice and younger cannot tell yet how to Christen them because they are a kind of epicoens of both genders plant-animals partly Animals partly plants like a sort of Nuns at Bruxels partly regular partly secular in the morning wearing the cowles and habit of Recluses in the afternoon the feathers and other attire of Gallants For they are Clergy-laickes and Lay-clerkes of their clergy they are for they together with their Ministers ordain Ministers and inflict Ecclesiastical censures and yet laicks they are for they may not preach nor baptize Church-men they are for they