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A76447	The penitent death of a vvoefull sinner. Or, the penitent death of John Atherton executed at Dublin the 5. of December. 1640. With some annotations upon severall passages in it. As also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his buriall. / By Nicholas Barnard Deane of Ardagh in Ireland.	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.; Atherton, John, 1598-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing B2014; Wing B2017; Thomason E176_3; Thomason E176_4; ESTC R2358	42,210	46

it were too meane for the Dignitaries and Fathers of our Church and onely left as the refuse of our Office for the inferiour Ministers And let me not be mis-understood as if in the words of S. Paul p Act. 28.19 I had ought to accuse my Nation or Profession of or with Cham had a desire to discover my Fathers Nakednesse No onely let me magnifie their office and in this our Brothers stead incite them unto that whereby their Dignity with man here and their comfort with God hereafter may be continued The Summe of the Apostles Commission you see here is Preaching which we shall according to the Text consider First in it selfe And then its severall parts First in the Generall from the Summe of the Apostles Message observe this viz. That Preaching and converting the soules of men of all the Acts of the Ministry is the most * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 APOSTOLICALL For further proofe see 1 Tim. 2.7 both put together I am ordained a Preacher and an Apostle a Teacher of the Gentiles c. The very same words againe 2 Tim. 1.11 in both see how the Apostleship is supported on each side with this imployment 'T is preferr'd before the Administration of Sacraments 1 Cor. 1.17 Christ sent me not i. e. not so much to baptize but to preach the Gospel Nay above Miracles gifts of tongues government c. See 1 Cor. 12.28 29. God hath set in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Teachers after that Miracles then gifts of healings Governments Diversities of Tongues c. Now wherein hath it so offended that lately it should be compelled to take the lowest roome 'T is a Speech of Gregory t Censemus eos qui Apostolorum siguram tenent praedicare Gregor we account those to beare the Image of the Apostles who are Preachers And if so why heare we no more of it from him who boasts his Sea to be onely Apostolicall who hath not been knowne so farre to disparage himselfe these many hundred yeares The more we draw back in it the nearer we shall draw to him There were some in the * Revel 2.2 Church of Ephesus that said they were Apostles and were not Let this one thing be their triall which if admitted the former will be found a lyar Now if Preaching be the most Apostolicall certainely this conclusion following must be undenyable viz. Then the most Episcopall u Apud nos Apostolorum locum tenent Episcopi Hieron Epist ad Marcel cötra Mont. whose Successours they are For which who knowes not that in the 1 Tim. 3. which S. Hierome well calls Speculum Sacerdotij the prime quality of a Bishop is to be x Vers 2. Potissima functio praesulum Erasmi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. not onely able and fit but apt and ready to it The like Tit. 1.9 y Prędicatio est actus principalissimus Episcopi proprius Tho. Aquinas could say that preaching was the most principall and proper act of a Bishop and accordingly applies z Miles Vinitor Pastor Bos Trituator Arator Seminator Architectus eight Titles to them that imply that labour Nay so proper to a Bishop that before S. Augustines time it was not a Augustino Presbytero potestatem dedit Valerius Episcopus coram se in Ecclesiâ Evangelium praedicandi frequentissimè tractandi contra usum consuetudinem Africanarum Ecclesiarum unde ei viz. Valerio nonnulli Episcopi detrahebant Possido de vitâ Aug nsuall for a Presbyter to preach in the presence of a Bishop at least it was against the custome of the Africk Church We reade Valerius then Bishop of Hippo was much censured by other neighbouring Bishops that he should permit S. Austine being then but a Presbyter to preach so often before him and not to doe it himselfe and yet there was some reason for it Valerius being a Graecian was not so perfect in the language as S. Austine was And b Et poste à occurrente volante hujusmodi famâ bono pręcedente exemplo acceptâ ab Episcopis potestate Presbyteri nōnulli coram Episcopis populis tractare coeperunt verbum Dei Ibid. See a difference between a Bishop a Presbyter from his example it began first that Presbyters got the honour to preach the Word of God in the Bishops presence Which former custome howsoever S. Hierome from another ground pleads much against as inferring that the c Gaudeat Episcopus judicio suo cum tales Christo elegerit sacerdotes Hier. de vitâ Cl●ricor ad Nepot Bishop should delight to heare such of his owne Election to performe their office Yet he acknowledgeth it to have d Pessimae consuetudinis est in quibusdam Ecclesijs tacere Presbyteros praesentibus Episcopis non loqui Ibid. been the custome then also But to returne to S. Augustine when he was made a Bishop did he then give it over No then 't is said e Atqueue Episcopatu suscepto multo instantius ac ferventius majore authoritate non adhuc in unâ tantum regione sed ubicunqueue rogatus venisset verbum salutis aeternae alacriter suavitér pullulante atque crescente Domini Ecclesiâ praedicabat Paratus semper reddere possentibus rationem de fide c. Possidon de vitâ Augustin he preached much more then he did before wheresoever he came whensoever asked The like of S. Ambrose by whose f In quâ urbe viz Mediolan tum Episcopatum administrabat eximius Ambrosius verbi Dei Praedicator frequentissimus cujus disputationibus Augustinus adstans in populo sensim paulatim conversus fuit Ibid. frequent Preaching S. Austin himselfe was converted the g Episcopi proprium munus esse docere populum effugere non possumus officium docendi quod nobis refugientibus imposuit necessitudo Ambros officior lib. 1. introduction into whose first Sermon after his Election was the affirming this to be his proper and necessary function S. Chrysostome calls Preaching Omnium bonorum Summa and according to his own practice would have a Bishop preach every day h Episcopum necesse est in singulos dies sementem facere ut ipsâ saltem assuetudine doctrinae sermonem auditorum animi retinere possunt Chrysost de sacerd lib. 6. with whom ye have often cras heri as if he were rather a daily Preacher than a weekely S. Hieromes speech a Bishop should be for the Church as 't is said of i Episcopus imitetur Mosen imitetur Aaron quid enim dicitur de ijs quod non discedunt à Tabernaculo Domini Duo sunt Pontificis opera aut â Deo discat legendo aut populum Dei docet praedicando Hier. in Lev●t Moses and Aaron for the Tabernacle they departed not from it alwayes either preaching or studying for it either with k Matth. 4. ver 18.21 Peter and Andrew fishing or with Iames and Iohn