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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

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THE PATTERN OF Ecclesiastical ORDINATION OR APOSTOLICK SEPARATION Being a Discourse upon Acts the 13.4 5. At first intended for the satisfaction of some Objections raised upon the said Trinitary Text by a Private Worthy Friend and now by his desire made publick for the Satisfaction and Instruction of others whom it may concern By Edward Wakeman Rector of St. Matthews Friday-street London 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Concil Gangrens can 6. LONDON Printed by J.G. for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane 1664. IMPRIMATUR Geo. Stradling S.T.P. Rever in Christo Pat. D. Gilb. Archiep. Cant. à Sac. Domest Ex Aed Lamb. Junii 22. 1664. To the most Reverend Father in God And the Right Honourable GILBERT Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY Primate and Metropolitan of all England and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Most Reverend Father in God WHen I consider as I cannot but often do so for Ingratitude is an unpardonable crime the Largeness of your Former Favours amongst the rest of my Honourable Friends and that Influence I receiv'd from you when you shone so bright in a somewhat lower Orb than now you do I cannot but confess at least my debts to you far greater than ever I shall be ever able to pay Children can never make a sufficient return unto their Parents though they should honour them with all they have all that they can do or suffer since without them they could never have been in a capacity of Being much less of Well Being Immortales gratiarum horti This makes me now so bold to present this small Handful of Tender First Fruits unto your Grace which I confess were against my Will Crop'd from me by a Friendly Over-powerful hand And indeed to whom should I devote the Pattern of Ecclesiastick Ordination but to the Greatest Apostle and Arch Angel of it in this our Church next under Christ Your Self It is no ceremonious but Fundamental point the Ordination to and execution of the Ministerial Function And yet I expect hard censures from the World on all sides but Fear none that are uncharitable If any will but take the pains to teach me better I shall be thankful However your Lordship and the World may guess by this how I spend that Talent of Health and Time c. which God is pleased to Lend me I cast both it and my self at your Graces Feet and think my self to have obtain'd enough if it find acceptance with or Protection from you My Lord Whose obedient Son and Servant in the Blessed Jesus I am Edward Wakeman July 5th 1664. THE PATTERN OF Ecclesiastical Ordination Or Apostolic Separation Acts 13.4 5. 4. So they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost departed 5. And when they were at Salamis they Preached the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews The whole story runs thus V. 1. Now there were in the Church that was at Antioch certain Prophets and Teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen which had been brought up with Herod the Tetrarch and Saul V. 2. And as they ministred unto the Lord and Fasted the holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them V. 3. And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away V. 4. So they being sent forth by the holy Ghost departed unto Seleucia and from thence they sailed to Cyprus V. 5. And when they were at Salamis they Preached the Word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews THe Text is a relation of the entrance of two that were solemnly ordained upon the sacred Ministerial Function Paul and Barnabas after some considerable time spent amongst the sage and learned Prophets at Antioch that noble nursery and such reputation gotten as that they were thought fit enough to be intrusted with a publick employment for the Church at Jerusalem nor that without desert for St. Luke tells us at the 9. and 11. chapters They were full of the Holy Ghost are now by vertue of an express from the same Holy Ghost separated or which is all one consecrated to their Apostleship by the laying on of hands I call it their Apostleship rather than Episcopacy or Priesthood though neither interpretation want its Patrons as finding in their execution of that Function whereunto they were now call'd and we do not read of any new Ordination of them afterwards little agreement with the Office of a Bishop it being limited to some particular Church and less with that of a Presbyter which gave him neither power of Ordaining nor yet of Censures both which St. Paul at least is recorded to have exercised and that indifferently in any part of the World Besides that it seems too much below the Eminency of an Apostle though the Schoolmen be not ashamed to fasten all their seven Orders upon our Saviour Christ himself to be tyed to those Gradations now when the Spirit was poured out upon all Flesh which were only necessary for the succeeding Christian Church wherein the Gifts of the holy Ghost were in great part to be supplied by Mans endeavour This Apostleship therefore being conferr'd upon them immediately like faithful Stewards they applied themselves diligently to the Performance of their charge And being sent forth by the Holy Ghost departed And when they were at Salamis they preached the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews In the former part of which words we have laid down their commission for this great Function in these words Being sent forth by the Holy Ghost In the latter we have expressed their Exercise of that Function Synechdochically layed down in these words They departed and preached the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews Their Commission is twofold First Internal from the Holy Ghost expressed in the text sent forth by the Holy Ghost Secondly External from the Church implied by the connexion of this with the former verse They on whom the Prophets had layed their hands They were sent forth by the Holy Ghost Which Commission from the Church if we again consider with Reflection upon this from the Holy Ghost we may observe by way of Deduction the joynt concurrence of the one with the other or the certain effect of this Imposition of hands the gift of the Holy Ghost In or from the 2. part I shall shew you that the duty of such as are thus Commissioned by the Holy Ghost and by the Church is Preaching and what that Preaching was is or ought to be But before I enter upon the particulars named because the text hath been otherwise by some interpreted it will be very requisite that I give you some account of the exposition that I mean to follow For There are who contend that Ordination is nothing concerned in this place that Paul and Barnabas were not by this Imposition of hands admitted to any degree Ministerial but only received it in way of