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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01700	A sermon of ecclesiastical benediction preached at Oundle at a visitation, Apr. 14. 1619. by Master Samuel Gibson, minister at Burleigh in Rutland.	Gibson, Samuel.	1620 (1620)	STC 11838; ESTC S102994	23,459	44

the Church men of courage vpon weighty occasion haue been bold to excommunicate Emperours as Ambrose excommunicated Theodosius and Fabian excommunicated Philip. And it is memorable that Paulinus writeth that when Ambrose denounced excommunication against a dissolute person in the very instant whilest he vsed the words the man was suddenly taken and rent by the diuell Let these things be considered of aduisedly by such as haue hitherto been carried with the streame and haue rashly by words or deeds or both shewed contempt of the Ministrie and seeing what high and honourable offices and priuiledges the most high God hath appropriated vnto his seruants whom hee hath called to that function let them reforme their former erroneous iudgement of them and their carriage towards them and that the vulgar sort may be the better taught their dutie in this let those in authoritie put a difference betweene those whom God hath so highly honoured and others which haue no such priuiledges giuen vnto them of the Lord. It is notable that is written of Salomon 1. Kings 2. when Abiathar the Priest had committed a crime worthy of death yet hee would not put him to death but said vnto him Get thee to Anathoth vnto thine owne fields c. because thou barest the Arke of the Lord God c. He put Ioab to death a great Counsellor of State but spared the life of Abiathar in reuerence of his Priesthod A worthie example Thankes bee to God we liue now vnder a religious King who being learned in the Scriptures is like-minded to Salomon this way and like another Constantine is exceedingly well-affected to the Church Long since hee gaue instruction to his eldest sonne to cherish none more than a godly Pastor and to count it one of the fairest of his Titles to be a louing nursing Father of the Church He hath since published his pleasure to haue his Clergy well vsed and knowing the power giuen vnto them of Christ He hath aduised men to haue recourse vnto a discreete Church-man well reputed for good life and to reueale his spirituall estate to him c. and he hath taken speciall notice of this ministeriall prerogatiue of blessing which others little minde and therefore he required a religious and zealous Diuine of great note and place in our Church to preach the Tuesday after the marriage of his only Daughter and solemnely to blesse the new married couple who performed it so worthily and with his zeale so inflamed the zeale of the hearers that it was no other like but his prayer went vp to heauen and the fruitfulnes of that Princely Lady hath since euidenced as much I haue heard also an honourable person say of Ministers God blesse them by whom God blesseth vs. A worthy speech arguing his obseruation of that speciall prerogatiue giuen of God vnto his Ministers to blesse in his name The time hath been that Preachers haue been too disgracefully vsed by temporall Iudges in the face of the countrey but since his Maiesties comming to the Crowne there hath been better respect had towards them And a great Iudge of Assise professed it publikely that he would assoone bind a man to his good behauiour for contempt of a Minister as for contempt of a Magistrate Now in Ecclesiasticall Courts we haue reason to expect better regard than in the Temporall for to that end those Courts and Consistories were granted at the first by Princes as it is confessed by one that is not onely in legibus doctus peritus but legum Doctor because the Clergy were like to haue more indifferency before a Iudge of their owne learning then before a Iudge of another profession it being held that Laici oppidò semper infesti sunt Clericis Lay-men are seldome Clergy mens friends And another reason of this he saith was that Clerks suites quarrels should not bee diuulged among the Lay people to the discredit of their profession Otherwise the said Author also sheweth how much anciently the credit of the Clergy was tendred and he wisheth the like regard towards Ecclesiasticall men were still retained both because it was reuerent and worthy the dignity of the Ministery whose office he acknowledgeth to bee most honourable Thus he himselfe a Iudge in the Ecclesiasticall Courts of great place That authority therefore is not rightly vsed nor agreeable to the institution thereof if in Ecclesiasticall Courts the Clergy haue not onely no iniuries and indignities offered vnto them but if they haue not in stead thereof protection and countenance and encouragement in all good I take no delight in finding faults specially with my superiours and betters but yet I hate base adulation It is thought to bee not so well as it should bee that so many aduantages are giuen vnto ill neighbours against their Ministers It is good for the greatest to remember what Iesus Christ before whom all must appeare to giue account hath left in record concerning his Ministers He that despiseth you despiseth me I leaue the prosecuting of this further and aduise all that would haue benefit by Ecclesiasticall benediction to deserue the loue of those to whom that office belongeth iure diuino for though we are to blesse all yet wee cannot blesse all with the like effect or with the like affection Not with like effect for all are not the sonnes of peace and those that are not are vncapable of this blessing Not with the like affection for in some wee haue more in some lesse comfort Wee cannot blesse all with the like affection as wee can blesse our friends and such as are comfortable vnto vs and instruments of our good When Isaac had a desire to blesse his sonne Esau he bids him first prouide him sauoury meate that wonld giue him content and hauing such brought vnto him by Iacob when he had eate of the venison and drunk wine then he called Now come neere me and kisse me my sonne God giue thee of the dew of heauen c. A thing very remarkable that before the holy Patriarch vndertooke to blesse his sonne hee first would haue sauoury meate prouided by him whom he meant to blesse and first he ate thereof and dranke wine to cheere vp his spirits that so he might blesse him the more heartily and effectually for heauinesse and griefe and sorrow and discontentment maketh a good man vnfit for the right performance of such duties Therfore when Elisha was moued against King Iehoram before he fell to prophesie he called for a Musician to allay his anger We may obserue also that when Iacob blessed his sonnes he blessed them not all alike but blessings flowed most plentifully from him when hee came to Ioseph because hee tooke most comfort in him of all the rest So the Ministers of the Gospell are most ready to blesse them whom they haue most comfort from as they in Luk. 7. were forward to speake to Christ for