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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25771	A sermon preached at the visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Chester, at Chester by James Arderne ...	Arderne, James, 1636-1691.; Pearson, John, 1613-1686.	1677 (1677)	Wing A3625; ESTC R20728	9,763	22

assign'd and the authority permitted by the superior order The primitive Church call'd Presbyters which in our English abridgment of the word is Priests * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sacred Officers of the second Throne These St. Ignatius tells us * Euseb. hist. l. 10. c. 5. might do nothing without the Bishop but on the other hand it needs not now move any doubt what St. Cyprian writes * Ignat. Ep. ad trall that he did nothing without his Presbyters No more do our Bishops when they only execute those Canons made by our Provincial Councils of which the Presbyters are a part The care over the people is exercised in private and personal reproving comforting instructing reconciling and the rest as they become necessary and since the ill times make it highly so in warning them to beware of separation from the Church of this the Apostles and their Successors took the greatest care that the people should not severally entertain opposite Teachers nor forget the assembling of themselves together and they reckon'd to them Schism equal to the most scandalous and destructive sins To this matter St. Barnabas speaks thus * Epist. Cathol ye ought not to draw your selves apart as if ye were justified for the Scripture saith quotiog Isa. 5. 22. wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight The same disswasive is the main design of St. Clemens's Epistles and of almost all of St. Ignatius but most largely the empty pleas for separation are confuted by St. Cyprian * l. 3 Epist. 3. and the aggravation and future punishment thereof is display'd by St. Iraeneus * l. 4. c. 62. We must likewise warn an indifferent sort of people that come both to our publick Assemblies and to those set up through a dislike taken causlesly against our Church it is no light matter left at discretion to joyn either to one or other we never find that the right Christians went to the Assemblies of the Montanists though Tertullion who too well knew them vouches that they were orthodox in Doctrine * Non aliquam fidei aut spei regulum evertunt Tertul. advers Phychicos only differing in some points of Discipline We can no more belong both to the Church and adverse Meeting than we can serve two Masters to this purpose there is an old Canon * Canon Apostol 63. Concil that by the sixth General Council is reckon'd Apostolick * Constantinopels 4. Can. 2. that he that prays with them in the Conventicles set up against the Church shall be deprived of the Churches Communion The fourth and last advice of St. Paul is to have a conversation sutable to the Ministerial Office We must have a conversation which becomes the Gospel which we preach St. Paul requires that we follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness 1 Tim. 6. 11. and the like advice 2 Ep. 2. 22. and to Titus 2. 7. that in all things he shew himself a pattern of good works when he says a pattern he means not any thing in our conversation wherein no one is bound to imitate us but in every Moral duty as belonging to all men a Minister is bound to be first and most remarkable As we are to be patterns to others so we must take those that have gone before for ours It was said by our Saviour of the Baptist that he was a burning and a shining light the common gloss should teach us he burn'd in his zeal and shin'd in his example it is not only he that Teaches but who likewise does that shall be call'd Great in the Kingdom of Heaven It is a commendation given of Origen that his doctrine and his manners did agree and of Nazianzen that he never gave in charge to his Scholars any thing which he had not first practis'd upon himself It is certain that all men are drawn more readily by examples than by fine sayings and are like Soldiers who more chearfully follow their Commander than his bare Commands A good life makes a Preacher not only better heard but to understand better if any man will do the will of God he shall know of his doctrine for the secrets of the Lord are with those that fear him and the Schechinah say the Iews was not afforded but to the best of men Real goodness gives a sense and tast upon our minds of what we recommend to others and the good counsel we give being wrought and pointed in our Hearts pierces further into our Hearers By our living soberly righteously and godlily men will be assured that when we perswade them to the same duties we are in good earnest and that we do not meerly preach these things as customary and expected or as pretty clean speculation but as our and their Duty as a practical truth and as such which is not only requir'd but possible by this means we shall gain both an esteem and success to our Ministry when our actions do not shame our speech when our Hearers cannot whisper why Does he not what he Says To conclude now with the exhortation of St. Peter applied to our purpose Let us have our conversation honest amongst men that when they speak against us as evil doers they may by our good works which they shall behold glorifie God To whom the Father Son and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be all Honour given for ever more The End ERRATA Page 10. line 24. r. 1 Ep. pag. 11. l. 7. r. Karraei pag. 12. l. 27. dele in A Catalogue of some Books and Sermons Printed for and sold by H. Brome since the dreadful Fire of London to 1678. COmber on the Common-Prayer in two Volumes octavo Dean W. Lloyd's Sermon before the King about Miracles His Sermon at the Funeral of John Lord Bishop of Chester 6 d. His Sermon before the King in Lent 1673. 6 d. The Seasonable Discourse against Popery in quarto 6 d. The Defence of it quart 6 d. The difference betwixt the Church and Court of Rome quarto 6 d. The Papists Apology to the Parliament answered 6 d. Mr. Naylors Commemoration Sermon for Colonel Cavendish 6 d. Mr. Sayer's Sermon at the Assizes at Reading 6 d. Papal Tyranny as it was exercised over England for some Ages with two Sermons on the fifth of No. by D. Du Moulin quar 1s 6 d. His Sermon at the Funeral of Dr. Turner Dean of Canterbury 6 d. 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