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A75337 The form of consecration of a church or chappel. And of the place of Christian buriall. / Exemplified by the R.R.F. in God, Lancelot late lord-bishop of Winchester, in the consecration of the Chappel of Jesus in the foresaid diocess. Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. 1659 (1659) Wing A3126; ESTC R210146 18,931 149

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THE Form of Consecration OF A Church or Chappel And Of the Place of Christian Buriall Exemplified By the R. R. F. in God LANCELOT Late Lord-Bishop of Winchester In the Consecration of the Chappel of JESVS in the foresaid Diocess LONDON Sold by T. Garthwait at the little North-door of S. Pauls 1659. Dog of Ecclesiae The Forme-of CONSECRATION of a CHVRCH or Chappel and of the place of Christian Buryall Exemplified by the R. R. F. in God LANCEL ANDREWES late L. Bishop of Winchester To the Christian Readers THat some Memoriall might be transmitted to Posterity of the Piety of the Church of England and of the religious care of our Reverend Fathers in seperating select and speciall places such are Churches Chappels and Oratories for the Publike Service of God and Celebration of the Divine Mysteries here is presented to you Christian Readers a Form of Consecration drawn up by the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot late Lord Bishop of VVinchester a person of so great learning and piety and therefore justly of eminency and honor not only in this Nationall but also in the Catholike Church of God where He is admired by all judicious and Knowing-persons for his most excellent Sermons acute Discourses and pious Devotions That the Publisher hereof makes no question but he shall hereby do an acceptable Service to the Church of God and in some measure stop the mouthes of the profane Novelists who never more then now shoot out their arrows even bitter words Ps 64.3 against such H. Places as by the Word of God and Prayer are solemnly dedicated and set apart with religious Ceremonies to the alone worship and Service of Almighty God It is not his intent to draw either end of the Saw of contention to justifie the Consecration of Churches in generall or this Form in particular as being well assured that nothing can be rationally objected against the One or the Other but what hath either been long since answered by the invincible hand of the judicious Mr. Hooker in his Ecclesiasticall Politie or will fall flat on his face as Dagon before the Ark at the very mention of the great name of the renowned and victorious Bishop of VVinchester against whom neither of the Factions betwixt which the Church of England hath been Crucified as her blessed Saviour between the two Thieves hath been ever stirring hand or tongue but like the Souldiers which came to apprehend our Lord they went backward and fell to the ground This said He recommends it to the Publike benefit not without some confidence that it may by the blessing of God have some influence and operation on the stony hearts and iron hands of the Sacrilegious generation of them VVho roar in the Congregations and set up their banners for tokens of them who break down all the carved work therof with axes and hammers of them who have set fire upon the Holy places and have defiled the dwelling places of Gods name even to the ground Ps 74 Of them who say Let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession of them who have cast their heads together and are confederate against them But if not sperabo autem adhuc meliora let them beware of the Psalmists imprecation O my God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde Psal 83. Which curse that by timely repentance it may be prevented is another ground of the publication hereof and a part of his daily prayers who promoted the Impression with the longings of St. Paul Rom. 10.1 Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for our Israel is that they may be saved May 29. 1659. A Note of the Reverence given to the Worship of God in the Israelites Ordering their Troopes out of Sr. Walter Raleghs History Book 2. Part 1. Cap. 5. §. 1. pag. 249. Edit 1648. THis was the Order of the Army of Israel and of their incamping c. The Tabernacle of God being always set in the middle and center thereof The Reverend care which Moses the prophet and Chosen servant of God had in all that belonged even to the outward and least parts of the Tabernacle Ark and Sanctuary witnessed well the inward and most humble zeal borne towards God himself The industry used in the framing thereof and every the least part thereof the curious Workmanship thereon bestowed the exceeding charge and expence in the provisions the dutifull observance in the laying up and preserving the Holy vessels the solemn Removing thereof the vigilant Attendance thereon and the provident defence of the Same which all Ages have in some degree imitated is now so forgotten in this superfine Age by those of the Family by the Anabaptist Brownist and other Sectaries as all cost and care bestowed and had of the Church wherein God is to be served and worshipped is accounted a kind of Popery and as proceeding from an Idolatrous disposition in so much as time would soone bring to passe if it were not resisted that God would be turned out of Churches into Barns and from thence again into the Fields and Mountaines and under the hedges and the Offices of the ministry robbed of all dignity and respect be as contemptible as those places All Order Discipline and Church Government left to Newness of Opinion and mens fancies yea and soon after as many kinds of Religions would spring up as there are Parish Churches in England every contentious ignorant person clothing his fancy with the Spirit of God and his imagination with the gift of Revelation in so much as when the Truth which is but one shall appear to the simple multitude no less variable then contrary to it self the Faith of men will soon after dye away by degrees and all Religion be held in scorn and contempt c. Consecratio CAPELLAE JESV ET COEMETERII PER LANCE LOTVM Episcopum Winton JVxta Southamptoniensem villam Ecclesia Beatae Mariae collapsa cernitur solis Cancellis ad sacros usus superstitibus paucae aliquot aedes ibi in propinquâ parte numerantur coetera Parochianorum multitudo hinc inde sparsim inhabitant in villis tum loci longinquo intervallo tum aestuario longè periculoso divisi ab Ecclesiâ Ex eâ accedendi difficultate non profanae modo plebeculae animos facilè invasit misera negligentia atque dispretio divini cultus sed viri proli sedulique pietatis cultores remoram in trajectu saepe experti sunt haud ipso quidem capitum discrimine eluctabilem consortem hujus infortunii cum se factum sentiret dum ibi loci familiam poneret Vir ●renuus Richardus Smith Armiger heroicos planè animos gestans atque inspiratos de Coelo commune hoc Religionis dispendium privatis quingentarum aliquot librarum expensis aut plus eo redemit Capellam egregiam quam Deo divinisque officiis dicari supplex vovet in alterâ parte fluminis magnificè extruit Spectato