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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07535	Concerning imposition of hands A sermon a the Lord Archbishop his visitation metropolitical, held, at Saint Marie Cray in Kent, by the Bishop of Rochester his Graces commissioner, the 7 of September last, preached by Richard Milborne Doctor of Diuinitie, and parson of Seuenoke in Kent.	Milbourne, Richard, d. 1624.	1607 (1607)	STC 17917; ESTC S100306	14,523	52

is expressed at large both for the circumstance of imposing his handes on the childrens heads with particuler respect of their future estate as also for the substance of his prayer conceiued for that purpose God before whome my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walke God which hath fed me all my life long vnto this day and the Angell which hath deliuered mee from all euill blesse these children Thus also did our blessed Sauiour blesse those little ones that were brought vnto him Mat. 19.13 with this request that he would put his hands on them and pray Thus did Peter and Iohn lay their hands vpon the Samaritanes lately baptised by Philip the Euangelist that they might receiue a greater measure of grace Act. 8.17 And thus Saint Paul confirmed those 12. Ephesians after baptisme Act. 19.6 And by this rite procured vnto them sensible gifts of the holy Ghost Now as the Apostles were warranted to the obseruation of this custome either by their masters practise or precept or by some speciall direction of Gods spirit whereof they were then fully possessed according to Christs promise Nam nullus homo elficere potest vt externū symbolum contimeat certam pro missionem gratiae Chemnicius So they likewise commended it vnto the Church as an holy ordinance of perpetuall continuance in which respect Imposition of handes is marshalled among the fundamentall points of Catechisme taught in the primitiue Church Heb. 6.2 So that as repentance from dead workes faith toward God the doctrine of baptismes of the generall resurrection and eternall iudgement are still to continue In like sort is the laying on of hands after baptisme as there it is placed And as the Apostles of Christ left it so it hath for many hundred yeares continued in the christian world as a sacred institution of great reputation magnified of the ancient Fathers Tertull. Cyprian Ambr. August as a singuler meanes to confirme increase and perfect spirituall graces begun in baptisme whereof one saith spiritus sactus Eusebius emissenus sermone de penticosse qui in fonte baptismi plenitudinem tribuit ad innocentiam in confirmatione augmentum praestat ad gratiam the holy Ghost which in the fountaine of Baptisme giueth that fulnes that sufficeth for innocencie afterwards in confirmation exhibiteth an augmentation of further grace necessarie for performing the duties of a Christian life and resisting of all sinfull temptations so that their common conceit of this sacramental complement is that as by baptisme the faithfull are receiued in familiam Dei Aquia in sum part 3 q 72 art 1 so by confirmation cooptantur in militiam Dei or as another speaketh in baptismo regeneramur ad vitam post baptismū confirmamur ad pugnam This was the ancient account of this religious rite neuer impeached for many ages vntill of late some Ouer licencious in censuring the iudgement of antiquitie besides sundry trifling cauils haue excepted against it in two maine respects First that it is a fruitles ceremonie because no such manifest spirituall effects of languages and prophecie are now attained by it as were in the dayes of the Apostles But to this imputation Saint Augustine answered long ago Lib. 3. cap. 16. de baptis cont Donat. Neque enim temporalibus sensibilibus miraculis attestantibus per manus impositionem medodatur spiritus sanctus sicut antea dabatur ad commendationem rudis fidei Ecclesiae primordia dilatanda sed inuisibiliter latenter cordibus diuina charitas inspiratur And least any should imagine this to be but an idle fancie of that Father it is verie plaine in scripture that God doth vsually grace the first institution of his ordinances with extraordinarie tokens of his fauour which afterwarde cease with out any disparagement to his ordinance as at the first erection of that Sanedrin or great Councell of state among the Iewes Num. 11.25 euerie one of the seuentie Elders prophecied for a season to testifie that their calling was from heauen the surceasing of which gift in them and their successors was no derogation to their vocation being once sufficiently ratified Leuit. 9.24 Moreouer at the first institution of the Leuiticall Priesthood and Sacrifices there came a fire out from the Lord and consumed vpon the Altar the burnt offering and the fat which was not vsuall afterward saue at the establishing of Gods worship when the Temple was dedicated 2. Chron. 7.1 and at the restoring of religion vpon that generall apostasie in Elias his time 1. King 8.38 Many sacrifices were well accepted of God albeit they were not in like sort consumed with fire from heauen as these were So then as it were strange diuinitie to affirme that the spirit of God doth not now discend vpon the waters of ordinarie baptisme because it is not seene in the bodily shape of a Doue where in it came downe vpon Christ Mat. 3. at his baptising or to hold that in the common ministerie of the worde preached the spirit is not giuen because it falleth not visibly vpon the hearers as it did at saint Peters first sermon to the Gentiles Act. 10.44 No lesse strange is it to conclude that there commeth now no increase of sauing grace by confirmation because imposition of hands is not now accompanied with such miraculous effects as gaue it countenance at the beginning Miracula cessarunt ne eorum consuetudine frigesceret genus humanum Aug de ver relig ca 25 quorum nouitate flagrauit The second exception taken against this sacred ordinance is in regard of the Minister thereof namely a bishop or chief Pastor of the church which breedeth a conceite say they that it is a more excellent mysterie of religion then the sacrament of Baptisme which may be had at euery inferiour Ministers hands To this it may be replied 1 That it is a spice of refurbished Donatisme to value sacraments or sacred ordinances by the worth of their Minister Secondly that it hath euer been a custome in the Church of God which in Saint Pauls time was an argument of some weight especially in cases of this condition that the chiefe Gouernours 1. Cor 11 16 and spirituall Fathers onely haue ordinarily exercised this duetie from the first institution of it For when Iacob laid his hands on Iosephs sonnes hee was the ancientest Patriarch among the people of God and while Christ liued children were presented to him alone not to any of his Disciples And after his ascension none but the Apostles confirmed those whom inferior teachers had baptized and when they had finished their course Act. 8. the charge of imposing hāds is committed as we see here to Timothie a Bishop and consequently to others of like preeminence And this custom seemeth to be grounded vpon two speciall reasons The first whereof is that whereas the wonderfull effects of the Patriarchs blessings vpon their children and posteritie hath bred an opinion in all the world that there