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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66440	The pattern of ecclesiastical ordination, or, Apostolick separation being a discourse upon Acts the 13. 4,5 ... / by Edward Wakeman ...	Wakeman, Edward.	1664 (1664)	Wing W275; ESTC R5294	23,139	44

in Mr. Durels excellent Treatise of the Conformity of other reformed Churches with the reformed Church of England that when some religious Protestants in the Churches of Bohemia were in great straits and under strange Persecutions and resolved to betake themselves unto the Woods and Mountains and Caverns of the Earth where they might serve God securely Nothing so troubled them in this their sad condition as how to supply the Defect and Mortality of their lawful Ministery For they thought they should in vain expect any Romish Bishop to come amongst them for the Gospel sake Doubts and Fears did arise in their minds Whether such an Ordination by which a Presbyter and not a Bishop should create another Presbyter would be lawfull and how they should be able to maintain such an Ordination as well against others when opposed as to their own people if by them questioned Quassabat animos met us an sat is legitima foret Ordinatio si Presbyter Presbyterum crearet non vero Episcopus Et quomodo talem Ordinationem si lis moveatur defensuri essent sive apud alios sive apud suos says Commenius in Fratr Bohem historia Sect. 59. The Result of their Doubts and Fears was this in short They sent one Michael Zambergius a Minister with two others to the confines of Moravia and Austria whither they heard some of the Waldenses were fled for Conscience sake to acquaint them with their condition and with what pass'd amongst them about the Election of their Ministers by Lot and having found Stephanus their Bishop after they had imparted to each other their sufferings and declared their Faith and Doctrine the said Michael Zambergius with his two Collegues were consecrated Bishops by Stephanus and another Bishop with some Presbyters whom they call'd and joynd with them in that work and so returned home with Episcopal power which was by them transmitted to their Successors until this day Thus Mr. Durel pag. 13. If the Authority of the Scriptures the Practice of the Primitive Church the Testimony of the Ancient Fathers the Confession of such as have been shrewdly suspected to be Adversaries and the Decrees and Canons of General Councils be of any validity herein we are well enough and might hope to give sufficient satisfaction to all that have not Abandon'd their Sense and Reason and shew them cleerly that to Bishops only belongs the Office of Ordination Nor is it strange that Christ hath left this Power with the Angels only of his Church since this laying on of hands is no Naked or Empty Solemnity but the Real conveyance of that Commission from the Holy Ghost Which brings me to The third particular to be handled which is by way of Deduction the Joynt concurrence of the Internal with the External Commission or the certain effect of this Imposition of hands The giving of the Holy Ghost Of which briefly You read before that God hath solemnly engaged himself to his Church to accompany their outward Donation with the Gift of his Holy Spirit in as much as he directed and commanded his Apostles to leave us this pattern of Ordination which is as it were an Ecclesiastical Procreation and to continue as long as God hath a Church in the world Now that God made good this promise in their own Ordinations it appears in the forecited place at the 20. of this book v. 28. Take heed unto the Flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers like an Unction as it were poured forth by Hands Which unless it had reached farther than the Apostles St. Paul had never commanded Titus to Ordain Elders in every City Now whatsoever belonged unto Titus why may not the whole Church lay claim unto it not doubting but that God who always was so Jealous of the least Pollution of the Priests under the darkness of the Law will not leave his Holy Mysteries to be disspensed by common hands for no more they would be if they were not sanctified by the Holy Ghost as well as by the Bishop now in the Light of his Glorious Gospel So that Mr. Calvin hath no reason while he reckons up some of Christs inimitable Actions to put together his saying to Lazarus Lazare veni foràs and his saying to his Disciples Accipite Spiritum Sanctum One of these being a Miracle necessary only at the first Publishing of the Gospel the other an Act of perpetual use in the Church to the worlds end See Calvins Instit the 4. book 19. chap. 29. Sect. Thus I have done with the Doctrine of the first part of my Text namely The Commission Internal from the Holy Ghost and External from the Church I proceed now to the 2. and the last part namely to shew you that the duty of such as are Commissioned by the Holy Ghost and the Church is Preaching and what that Preaching was is or ought to be which is the 4. particular That St. Paul and Parnabas were to Preach the word of God seeing they were Apostles is I suppose denied by none and therefore shall not trouble the Reader with any further Argumentation than two or three places of Scripture whereby to prove that this was their Business Says Jesus to the Disciples St. Matthew 28. verse 18. All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth verse 19. Goe ye therefore and teach all Nations c. And verse 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you St. Mark the 16. verse 15. Go ye into all the World and Preach the Gospel to every creature And in St. Luke the 24. verse 47 c. you may find somewhat to the same purpose that they were to do so and here in my text as well as in other places we find they did so from this time forward to the day of their death The Jewish High-Priest was call'd the Messenger or Angel of the Lord of Hosts namely because he executed Gods commands in giving of the Law to the People and teaching them what they should do Mal. the 2. v. the 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Diodorus Siculus hath it And thus under the New Testament too such as are to dispense the Word and Sacraments are called and therefore called Messengers of God or The Churches Angels For look what the duty of an Ambassador or Messenger upon Earth of an Earthly Potentate is the same is the Business of the Ministers of God viz. to declare his Will and to treat about matters of concernment which is done as by other ways so by this too of Preaching Which what it was then and what it is or ought to be now comes next to be discours'd of The Preaching then and indeed such it ought to be Now was the declaration of the Gospel of Christ or the glad tidings of Salvation whereby men were secured of eternal happiness upon condition of Repentance from dead works and a stedfast Faith in all Gods Attributes and wheresoever there is defect as there is