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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94109	A sermon preached at the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of London, Humphry Lord Bishop of Sarum, George Lord Bishop of Worcester, Robert Lord Bishop of Lincolne, George Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. On Sunday 28. October, 1660. at S. Peters Westminster. By John Sudbury, one of the prebendaries of that church.	Sudbury, John, 1604-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing S6136; Thomason E1048_10; ESTC R203686	23,261	45

A SERMON PREACHED At the Consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of London HUMPHRY Lord Bishop of Sarum GEORGE Lord Bishop of Worcester ROBERT Lord Bishop of Lincolne GEORGE Lord Bishop of St. Asaph On Sunday 28. October 1660. at S. Peters WESTMINSTER By JOHN SUDBURY One of the Prebendaries of that Church LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane 1660. To the Right Honourable EDVVARD Lord HYDE Baron of Henden Lord high Chancellor of England Chancellor of the University of Oxford one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council MY LORD HAving sent this Sermon to the Press in obedience to Your Command I have taken the boldness to shelter it under the protection of Your Name in hope that when the Readers shall see it hath had Your approbation they will be the better inclined to afford it their own I wish it may have this effect upon such as have any prejudice against the Truth which I assert and maintain because it is of so much concernment to the publick good that I cannot think it would have any Adversaries but such as are the enemies of Mankind if it were not through some mis-understanding which I have endeavoured to remove I hope at least some will lay aside that envy with which they look upon the Bishops for the height and dignity of their Office and esteem them very highly in love for their Work sake 1 Thes 5.13 when they shall have seen here that it is not onely an Office of dignity but of work and that work as good as the Office is great I will say no more to them here than that the peace and safety of the Kingdome is so bound up with that of the Church that he that is a friend to the one cannot be an enemy to the other And that the Office and Dignity of a Bishop is so necessary to the peace and safety of the Church that the opposing of the one must needs beget disorder and confusion in the other But I will pray That God who hath restored us to a better Understanding of the Royall Office and Dignity will likewise give us a right Apprehension of the Episcopall Psal 77. ult And as He led his People like a Flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron so He will make us all the people of his pasture and the Sheep of his hands and lead us like a Flock in the right and good way which will make us as happy as we can be in this World and finally bring us to the perfection of our Happinesse in his Eternall Kingdome And herein I doubt not but Your Lordship is ready to joyne Your Devotions with those of Your LORDSHIPS Most humble and most faithful Servant JOHN SUDBURY 1 TIM 3.1 This is a true saying If a man desire the Office of a Bishop he desireth a good work THere needs no other Preface or Introduction to commend this saying to our attention then this which the Apostle hath set before it This is a true saying For seeing there is not any saying in this book which is not as true as this we may be sure there is some difference between the truth of this and other sayings which made the Apostle so particularly commend it to us And though it be not easie to determine positively what it is it is not hard to say what it might be For first it is easie to perceive what great need there was to arm and fence it well against the contradiction of such as would oppose and gainsay it For there is not any saying in this book which hath met with more and greater opposition and contradiction The Office of a Bishop hath been the mark at which not onely the profess'd Enemies of the Church have bent their bows and shot their arrows but likewise they who have the greatest contention with each other which of them should be the better if not the only Christian Church they on the one side contending for one Bishop over the whole Church and making all the rest but his Ministers the other would have as many Bishops as there are Ministers which is in effect to have none But secondly the truth of this saying is likewise a matter of great importance worthy of more then ordinary regard which might move the Apostle to commend it to a more then ordinary attention For there is not a word in it which will not require and deserve a distinct and particular consideration First here is the Office of a Bishop secondly the Work belonging to that Office thirdly the Goodness of that Work fourthly the Desire of the Office and of the good Work the one set down by way of supposition If a man desire the Office of a Bishop the other by way of inference or conclusion thereupon he desireth a good work These are the particulars in the Text of which I shall speak in the same order that I have proposed them beginning first with the Office of a Bishop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is here translated the Office of a Bishop signifies not the bare Office or Function of a Bishop as it is an Office of work but the Office together with the Dignity and preeminence the Power and Authority which is so essential to it and so necessary for the due exercise and discharge of that Office that it cannot be without it As likewise the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies not the bare Office but the Office together with the Dignity of an Apostle Which Dignity the Apostle St. Paul was carefull to assert and maintain as well as to discharge the Office And it is the more remarkable in him because he was a man so far from all manner of arrogance and vain-glory that no man could have more humble thoughts of himself Insomuch that when he speaks of himself 1 Cor. 15.9 he calls himself the least of the Apostles though he knew he was not inferiour to the chiefest Apostles and not only the least of Apostles but lesse then the least of all Saints Eph. 3.8 but when he speaks of his Office he saith In as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles Rom. 11.13 I magnifie mine Office And truly we likewise have great reason to magnifie the Office of a Bishop so great that St. Hierom who was not partial to the Dignity of that Order confesseth that the safety of the Church depends upon it Ecclesiae salus pendet in dignitate summi Sacerdotis cui si non exors quaedam ab omnibus emine is detu potestas tot in ecclesiis efficientur schismata quot sacerdotes Hieron ad Lucif The safety of the Church saith he depends upon the dignity of the high Priest to whom unlesse there be given an extraordinary and eminent power there will be as many Schisms in the Church as there be Priests And we have seen the truth hereof by so sad experience of late years that it will be