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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

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 that most Learned Pillar of our Church Daniell Featley Dr. in Divinity Rector of Lambeth and Acton Provost of Chelsey-Colledge and Chaplain in ordinary to his late Majesty Unto whom is Dedicated his large Volume Clavis Mystica And now Reprinted at the sole charge of George Vineing sometimes Servant to the right Honourable Henry Earl of Manchester Lord Privy Seal Deceased LONDON Printed in the Yeer 1661. To the Courteous Reader Courteous Reader HErein is shewn the Originall and dignity of Bishops and the singular union between Regall and Episcopall right and Authority drawn from Constantine after the Church begun to have a little vigor against the persecuting Arians And because the works of this famous Author should be had in Endlesse remembrance by all Protestants as he is and ever will be to the terror of all Papists And if any shall demand why I the Reprinter should take upon me to publish this famous Sermon my answer is as ready as true because for the sincere love that I bear unto the truth and the Endlesse true love that I owe unto my Deceased spirituall Father who begat me in 1624. out of blinde Popery from dumb'd and dead Idols and brought me into the clear light to serve the true and living God that he may have glory by it and every Reader the benefit of it I have thought no time so seasonable nor none of all the Authors works so sutable as this small volume is that all those who never knew his person much lesse were conversant with him or never read him in his large field of his manifold unparallel'd works may herein have a most sweet taste of his worth which may make them desirous to know him more in his larger works so this small piece is to inform the ignorant to reforme the obstinate to conform the moderate and to confirm all to communicate in the Church of God That all Christians may so do is the hearty desires and daily prayers of the meanest of the Sons of the Church G. V. 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. 1 PET 5. 2 3 4. Feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind not as being Lords over Gods heritage but being ensamples to the flock And when the chief shepheard shall appear you shall receive a Crown of glory that fadeth not away Most Reverend Right Honourable Right reverend Right worshipfull c. ARchilocus sharpning his quill and dipping it in gall against Licambes that his satirical invectives might be more poignant putteth the pen in Archilocrus his fathers hand and by an elegant prosopopeia maketh him upbraid his sonne with those errors and vices which it was not fit that any but his father should in such sort rip up And Tully being to read a lecture of gravity and modesty to Clodia which became not his yeers or condition raiseth up as it were from the grave her old grandfather Appius Caecus and out of his mouth delivereth a sage and fatherly admonition to her In like manner Right Reverend receiving the charge from you to give the charge unto you at this present and being over-ruled by authority to speak something of the eminent authority and sacred dignity into which ye are now to be invested I have brought upon this holy stage the first of your ranke and auncientest of your Apostolical order to admonish you with authority both of your general calling as Pastours set over Christs flocke and your speciall as Bishops set over the Pastours themselves That in the former words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feed this in the latter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bishoping or taking the over-sight of them Both they are to perform 1 Not by constraint 2 Not for lucre 3 Not with pride 1 Not by constraint constraint standeth not with the dignity of the Apostles successors 2. Not for filthy lucre filthy lucre sorts not with Gods Priests 3 Not in or with Lord-like pride Lord-like pride complyeth not with the humility of Christs Ministers As Tully the aged wrote to Cato the ancient of old age so in the words of my text Peter the Elder writeth to Elders of the calling life and reward of Elders in the Church of God 1 Their function is feeding and overlooking Christs flock enjoyned ver 2. 2 Their life is to be a pattern of all vertue drawn ver 3. 3 Their reward is a Crowne of glory set before them ver 4. 1 Their function sacred answerable to their calling which is divine 2 Their life exemplary answerable to their function which is sacred 3 Their reward exceeding great answerable to the eminency of the one and excellency of the other May it please you therefore to observe out of the words 1 For your instruction what your function is 2 For correction what your life should be 3 For comfort what your reward shall be As the costly ornaments of Aaron were fastned to the Ephod with golden chaines of writhen works so all the parts and points of the Apostles exhortation are artificially joyned and tyed together with excellent coherence as it were with chaines of gold This chain thus I draw through them all 1 There are some of the Ministery fitter to be fed and led like sheep than to feed or lead like shepheards they are hunger-starved themselves having no better provision than the Apostles had in the wildernenesse after Christs miraculous feast a few baskets full of broken meat Saint Bernard admireth at their Charity saying they by whom the streams of heavenly doctrine flow to us are of such superabundant charity that they desire to empty themselves before they are half full nay many before they have any drop of saving knowledge and divine learning most ready to deliver that which they never received and teach what they never learned Such a one was that Bithynian whom Lactantius taketh up for taking upon him to cure dimme and dark eyes when himself was stark blind I find nothing whereunto I may fitter resemble them than to squibs or small fire-works which as soon as they take fire never leave popping and shooting and making a hidious noise till all the powder be spent so these having rammed a little stuffe together and being kindled with blind zeal never leave shooting and spitting fire in the pulpit as long as their poor provision lasteth These men howsoever they are lyable to many other exceptions yet all men will free them from the imputation which Felix laid upon Saint Paul much learning hath made thee mad And as secure are they

bear rule in the Church yet Church-men they are not for they may receive no maintenance from the Church They are the Elders that rule well and labour not in the word for such they will have intimated by St. Paul yet the honour which their own Interpreters there expound honourable maintenance is not due unto them Spare me Men Fathers and Brethren if I spare not them who go about to bereave us of our spiritual Fathers qui saeviunt in plagas vulnera ecclesiae who seek to ruine the ruines and spoile the very spoiles of Ecclesiastical dignity and distinction left among us To place such Bats as these rather mice than birds must Christs Apostles and their successors be displaced and all ranks of Ecclesiasticall order confounded is there any justice in this to break all Crosier staves and tread all Miters under foot and teare all Rochets in pieces Vnius obnoxam furias Ajacis Oilei for the usurpation and tyranny of one Bishop the Pope of Rome By this reason take away the Reverend order of the Apostles for Iudas sake take away the sacred order of Prophets for Balaams sake take away the soveraigne order of Princes for Iulians sake take away the glorious orbs of stars for the stars sake called wormwood in the Apocalyps nay take away the highest regiment of Angels for Lucifers sake the rest of his faction sometime in the highest order in heaven but now reserved in chaines of darknesse till the great day This may suffice to be spoken of and for your calling two words of the two dutie implyed in the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feed and take the over-sight You are Pastors and Bishops make good your titles feed as Pastors take the over-sight of your Diocesse as Bishops The three orders in the Church Bishops Priests and Deacons resemble the three faculties of the soule the vegetative sensitive and reasonable For as the sensitive faculty includeth the vegetative aliquid amplius and somewhat more to wit sense and the reasonable implyeth the sensitive aliquid amplius and somewhat more to wit reason for a Priest implyeth a Deacon aliquid amplius and a Bishop implyeth a Priest aliquid amplius Yee are my Lords both Bishops and Priests and as you are invested into a double honour so you have a double charge as Bishops you are to rule well as Priests to labour in the word as Priests you are to preach as Bishops to ordain Priests and countenance Preachers as Priests you are to smite simony and sacriledge schisme and heresie impurity and impiety gladio oris with the sword of your mouth as Bishops ore gladii with the mouth that is the edge of the sword the sword of ecclesiastical censures which Christ hath put into your hand bear not this sword in vain be not pertakers of the sinnes of any of the Clergy or bribes of the laity use this your sword for not against the Church Non hos quaesitum munus in usus Hold not too strict a hand over your too much oppressed Clergy let it not be said of the clergy of your Diocesse as it was said of the Roman souldiers under Severus that they were more affraid of their Captain then of the enemy For as St. Paul speaketh to the Corinthians if I make you sad who shall comfort you so I may say to you if you dishearten poor Ministers who shal comfort them or stand for them the laity no they take two much of the nature of the stone from whence they have their name given them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if a faithful Minister of Jesus Christ if a diligent preacher that spends all his Oyle and Week his body and soul to give them light sue but for his dues especially if he mutter but a word against their great Diana their sacrilegious customes which oft deprive the Ministers of the Gospel of nine parts of the Tenth and leave them but decimam decimae the tenth of the tenth they will all fall upon him and unlesse your power and authority relieve him grind him to powder They use their godly Preachers whom the world cannot parallel as the Hawk in Hesiod dealt with the melodious Nightingale they plum them and devour them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although they be the sweetest singers of Israel Many of them after they have spent their strength in preaching in season and out of season catechizing and lecturing on the Lords day and on the week dayes may truly say as Synesius sometimes complained that they carried nothing away from their parishes or cures but bonam conscientiam malam valetudinem a good conscience and an ill crazed body No more of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taking the over-sight but a word of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feed lest whilest I exhort you to feed I detain you from better feeding viz. upon the blessed Sacrament now set before you As in Churches and Noblemens Halls where there hang great Candlesticks with many branches the lights are first let down to be tinded and when they are fully lighted then they are drawn up by degrees to give light to the whole room so our Church first sendeth her sweet wax lights made and formed in private schools down to the Universities to be tinded and when they are fully enlightned with knowledge then draweth them up by degrees first to pastoral charges then to dignities Deanaries and Bishopricks not that then they should be put out but to the end that as they are set higher they should give more light You are Right Reverend the silver Trumpet of Zion whom God lifteth up on high that you may sound the louder and shriller as bells are hung higher in the steeple that they may be heard further Let it be never said of you as it was of Saul that when he came to the high places he made an end of prophecying The more God hath honoured you the more you ought to honour him the higher Christ hath preferred you the more you ought to love him and shew this your love by your treble diligence in feeding his sheep To which end these words Peter lovest thou me feed my sheep c. are by the order of our Church appointed to be read for the Gospell at your consecration I grant you feed many ways you feed when you appoint pastors to feed you feed when you instruct them how to feed you feed when you censure them for not feeding their flocks or not feeding them with wholesome food you feed in a Synode when you make good Canons you feed in your visitations when you encourage good Ministers and reform abuses in the Church lastly you feed at your tables when you keep good hospitality And after all these manners the Apostle and ancient Fathers fed yet they thought themselves in danger of a vae or curse if they fed not by preaching the Gospel in their