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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

if he die presently regeneratio per se salvat the Sacrament of regeneration is sufficient and death is a kind of Confirmation to him who from thence forth sin no more We grant likewise that the Holy Ghost accompanies it as S. t Hieronym contra Luciferianos Hierome shewes contra Luciferianos and the Fathers which are most for Confirmation still allow it and our Church tells us that Children being Baptized have all things necessary for their salvation Neither make we Confirmation of such necessity as if a man might not obtain the Spirit and be saved without it where it cannot conveniently be had which is all that S. u Hieronym ibid. Ad honorem potius Sacerdotii quam ad legis necessitatem Alioqui si ad Episcopi tantum imprecationem Spiritus Sanctus defluit lugendi sunt qui in Viculis aut in Castellis aut in remotioribus locis per Presbyteros Diaconos baptizati ante dormierunt quam ab Episcopis inviserentur Hierome means by his quam ad legis necessitatem not so much for any necessity of Law as appears by his following words though some draw strange inferences from it And yet for all this there is room for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them which are reserved for age and further conflicts for a collation of further grace by Confirmation and yet it is the same Spirit in both but with divers effects as Eusebius Emissenus speaks the Holy Ghost which descends with saving influence upon the waters of Baptisme gives fulnesse of innocence at the Font but in Confirmation he gives strength and encrease of Grace in Baptisme he regenerates us to life after Baptisme he confirms us for the battell ad militiam fidei for the warfare of Faith as the Bohemians speak in their Confession though some boggle so much at it which the same Father explains very appositely As a Commander saith he when he takes one into the number of his Soldiers doth not onely set his mark or badge upon him but also furnisheth him with Arms for the Fight so to him that is Baptized the benediction of Confirmation is a kind of Ammunition or Defence We are Listed in Baptisme but in Confirmation our old Arms are scoured up and new are bestowed upon us and yet by the same Spirit still Which as he is given in diversity of gifts so sometimes in different degrees of the same gift the Apostles received him thrice saith Nazianz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the measure of their present capacity and that at three severall times before Christs Passion after his Resurrection and again after his Ascent into Heaven at the first time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more obscurely at the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz. in Sanct. Pentecost more lively and expressely at the third time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more perfectly then at the former so Nazianzene Orat. in Sanct. Pentecost and we find their inward grace still encreasing so that those which shrunk from Christ at his Passion Matth. 25.56 head the scattered members of his Church after his Resurrection but then when Pentecost was come they Preach the word boldly and undauntedly for then as y Leo Sermon 2. in Pentecost dicit Apostolos accepisse Constantiam illius spiritus quae omnem formidinem foras mitteret furorem persequentium non timeret Quia Spiritus Sancti novâ abundantiâ repleti ardentius velle efficacius posse caeperunt pro. ficientes a praeceptorum scientia ad tolerantiam passionum ut sub nulla jam tempestate trepidantes fluctus seculi Elationes mundi fide supergrediente calcarent morte contempta omnibus Gentibus Evangelium inferrent Leo the Great in his second Homily on that Festivall speaks They received that stability of spirit which shut out all carnall fear making them not to dread the fury of their Persecutours being filled saith he with a new abundance of the Holy Spirit they began to will more ardently and were enabled to perform more powerfully their knowledge was now improved into a patient suffering of afflictions so that not being shaken with any tempests by a surpassing Faith they trampled under foot the waves and risings of the world and contemning death it self brought in the Gospel of truth unto the Gentiles thus Leo of them And indeed if we carefully look upon the Scripture we shall find an eminent gift of the Holy Ghost to be expected after our first Believing even such as ceased not with miracles so Gal. 4.6 Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts first Sons and then is the Spirit sent which yet in some kind they must have before or else could not have been Sons and so Ephes 1.13 In whom after ye believed mark that you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise and of this the same Apostle 2 Cor. 1.21 22. Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ and hath annointed us is God who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts As there is preventing and converting so there is an establishing corroborating Grace which is conceived to be meant in those places fresh supplies new strength for advance and perseverance in holinesse such as make us not onely Plants but Pillars in the House of God fixt and immoveable such as will make a man stand steady upon a billow calme in a tempest not onely to bear up but to rejoyce in tribulations passing through not onely the baits and pleasures of the world with scorn and contempt but even distresse persecution famine nakednesse perill swords with the courage of More then a Conquerour Rom. 8.35 37. which is the grace intended and sought for in Confirmation and for which reason it is also so called The Fathers saith judicious z Hooker lib. 5. Sect. 66. Hooker every where impute unto Confirmation the gift of grace of the Holy Ghost not which maketh us Christian men but when we are made such assisteth us in all virtue armeth us against all temptations and sin and the same is the judgement of our Church which ordereth that Confirmation be administred unto them that be Baptized that by imposition of hands and prayer they may receive strength and defence against all temptations to sin and assaults of the World and the Devil And thus you see how Confirmation is no prejudice to Baptisme but may prove a great advantage to the Baptized Yea but will some further say those in the Text presently received the Holy Ghost but are we sure that this Ordinance shall prove effectually confirming unto us I answer you have a powerfull means to this purpose Saterdotal benediction as a Flacius Illyricus in Clave Script Flacius Illyricus in Clave Script speaks is not a bare good Prayer but as it were a Pledge and testimony of Gods love of special power and efficacy to open heaven unto those that are partakers of