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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59764	The excellence of the order of the Church of England, under Episcopal government set forth in a sermon at the visitation at Blandford, Anno 1640 / by William Sherley ...	Sherley, William.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3240; ESTC R21422	23,064	42

Readings of the Psalms alternatim the tossing of Tennis-balls her Collects because but briefe Cuts and Shreds of Prayer her Choice of Epistles and Gospels the mangling of the word of God insomuch that neither the Hymne of Glory the Creed the Nicene I mean and that of Athanasius no nor the Lords Prayer it self have escaped them without a most bitter censure all which seem to me at least for to be so strange as that common Charity would not have suffered me to have believed the least Tittle thereof were not all this and more to be read in their own Books and Writings Nay because our Temples begin now to appear somewhat like what they are the Houses of God wherein the Lord ought to be worshipped in the beauty of Holiness because our Sanctuaries have of late been entred with that lowlie Reverence as becomes the Courts of the most High how hath this our Virgin Mother been lately scandalized as if she were turning Harlot in going a whoring after Popish Vanities But what Credit do these silly Libellers do in the mean time to the Sea of Rome in calling that Popery which the ancienter Purer times will not be ashamed to own as theirs amongst whom as there is mention made of Churches that have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril 14. Catech. so adorned and even embossed with Silver and Gold as that they seemed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb 10. lib. a kind of wonder to as many as beheld them So likewise is there to be read in the Jus Orientale of some such thing as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nay in St Austin of a Terram Fronte concutientes men not entring then the Church as ordinarily now many do with that gesture and countenance as if they went thither rather with authority to dispossess God of his House then to humble themselves before him whilst in the words of the Psalmist rather they then came and worshipped and fell down and kneeled before the Lord their Maker And therefore what shall I say to these or how may I hope to move them Shall I endeavour to unbend their stiff spirits by gentle Persuasions and loving exhortations but presuming that such Physick will be too weak to move their tuffe Tempers I may not but think of some such strong Doses as that which I meet with in the Writings of an Italian Prelate who hath a saying that where God comes and sees his House for to ly neglected Frederic Borrom Synodal 13. even in that dust that he finds there he writes the sinns of those by whose default it was kept no better And what the Finger of the Lord once writes be it but in dust is to be conceived to be as durable as if it were engraven with the pen of a Diamond in a Pillar of Marble And thus hahing now declared unto you at large the end of my Apostles coming or Visitation which was for to put in Order and withall taken the occasion of discharging that duty in mine own Particular Can. 8. which the Canons of our late Holy Synod hath laid on us in shewing the laudibleness of the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England It remaines that we now proceed to those Things which my Apostle meant for to put in Order and they as I told you are here veild up in this Indefinite Terme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rest The Rest will I set in Order when I come What those Rest Things were which my Apostle intended at his coming amongst the Corinthians for to have Ordered I find neither here nor otherwhere expressed so that Commentators by reason of this my Apostles silence having but a cold sent to hunt by are generally all of them at a Loss some running this way and some that as their own private Fancies and such conjectures as they make to themselves shall seem to lead them Seeing therefore it is somewhat dangerous there to set up Sails for a further Journy where neither Sun nor Star appears for our Guidance and whereto we have no certain Card of our own to steer by I hold it the safest course here to cast mine Ankor shutting up all in one Word only of Exhortation which also shall be no other then that which this very point it self may be made to yeeld us whilst this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rest however it be indefinite in it self may serve nevertheless to Teach you all your duties First then as for you the Wardens who being Lindwood Constit l. 3. de Cler. non Resid as you are told by Lindwood Ecclesiae Occonomi the Churches Oeconomists that are by your Place to provide for Her Wants nay who have been conceived to be so far the Hand of the Bishop for the putting his Mandats in Execution Concil Gangr C. 7. C. 8. as that in some of the Ancient Councels you are stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the men employed by him and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men ordered by him let this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heer in the Text be your Remembrancer so far as to cause you to Present all those things which you in your several Churches know yet still to be out of Order Which that you may not think to be meerly a Freewil business or a matter at pleasure only know that in case you do it not by Vertue of the Oath which for this purpose hath been taken by you you are guiltie of Perjury and so for that I conceive will work most with you liable to the heavy Censures of higher Courts And as for you Much Honoured for as Commentators upon good grounds conceive St Paul went not himself as he here resolved to Corinth who are in the place of our Reverend Diocesan and now come to order such grievances as shall be made known to you if there have been with you a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nos qui vobis videmur loqui de superiori loco sub p dibus vestris sumus August any such things I mean which in those bills as have been preferr'd you have not taken sufficient notice of he that here stands on high casts himself so low as your feet for to beseech you that admitting such things into your further thoughts you would be pleased to send out your edicts for their Reformation But as for you My brethren since you at your very first entrie into the ministerie all took Orders and are therefore now all men of Orders There is nothing I hope with such as you that is out of Order but if there be let this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here in the Text have so much influence likewise on you as to cause you to be your own Ordinaries so far as by amending in your own Persons what is amisse to put all that in Order Thus shall these our yeerly Meetings be freed from those Jeers and Scoffs which some envious Tongues have been ready to cast upon them whilest these our Visitations then shall be to the Reforming of every one of us in Particular to the Honour of the Church in general and finally to the Glory of God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost to which Blessed Trinitie in Unitie and Unitie in Trinitie be ascribed all Majesty and Worship both now and eyermore AMEN FINIS