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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	covenant_n	sacrament_n	seal_n	5,151	5	9.5245	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77508	The sacred ordinance of ordination, by imposition of the hands of the presbytery. As it was lately held forth in a sermon preached at the solemn ordination of ministers in the city of Norwich June 11. 1656. / By John Brinsley minister of the Gospel at Great Yarmouth. VVhereunto is also affixed the word of exhortation given to the persons then and there ordained, being usefull to all others of the same tribe. By Nic. Ganning, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Barnham-Broom.	Brinsley, John, 1660-1665.; Ganning, Nicholas, d. 1687.	1656 (1656)	Wing B4726; Thomason E1601_3; ESTC R208903	43,850	99

hereby rendred the more acceptable unto God Take what the true Churches of Christ hold forth unto us 1. Hereby it is declared and that both publickly and solemnly who they are that are set a part to the work of the Ministery that so the people taking notice thereof may bee thereby induced to give such respects unto them as belong to their office To this end it is that civil Magistrates used to bee installed with such solemnities as they are for the conciliating of respect from the people under their Government And upon a like account is this solemnity used in the Ordination of Ministers 2. Hereby the persons ordained are dedicated and consecrated unto God and set apart to his service even as the Sacrifices under the Law by the same Ceremonie were set apart from a common to a sacred use 3. Hereby a Gift is conveyed viz. that Gift here spoken of in the Text. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both the Ministerial Office and Grace Both here said to bee conveyed unto Timothy by this means by laying on of the hands of the Presbytery Object Not so say some this is more than the Text will avouch which saith only that this Gift was given him with the laying on of their hands not by it So they distinguish between these two particles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by and with The former of which is here applyed to Prophesie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Prophesie the latter to the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with laying on c. Answ But this is but a nice and over-curious criticisme Compare Act. 13.17.14.27 15.4 with vers 12. of that Chapter Vide Bez. Gr. Annot ad loc thus to distinguish betwixt these two particles which are not seldome indifferently used the one put for the other as it is observed by Beza and others Letting go other Texts consult wee but that one which is parallel to this 2 Tim. 1.6 there wee shall find this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stir up the Gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Repl. True say they Paul might say this of his hands which had yet vertue in them to confer extraordinary gifts But so have not the hands of the Presbytery whether extraordinary or ordinary Answ To this let it bee answered that though they have no such vertue in them yet they may bee imployed as instrumental in conveying of what is not in their power to give And this is all that wee intend when wee say that this Gift is conveyed by Ministerial hands wee do not say conferred as attributing any proper Efficiencie to these hands but only conveyed Such is this Ceremonie of imposition of hands in Ordination it is only a vehiculum a moral Instrument whereby this gift is conveyed 1. The Office Hereby the person ordeined is impowered for the exercise of his Ministerial function in dispensing of Word Sacraments Censures all in an authoritative way Even as Joshua was installed in his office by laying on of Moses his hands 2. As the Office so the Grace This is also conveyed by this Ceremonie where it is rightly used and received So much our learned Cartwright sticks not to grant to his Adversaries of Rhemes writing upon this Text. That Grace is given saith hee by Cartwright Confut. of the Rhemists in Text. and with the Ordination of Ministers when it is duly given and received wee willingly yeeld because the words of the Scripture bear it Grace given in Ordination and that by imposition of hands as hee there intends it Quest But what Grace and how given Ans I answer Ministerial Grace suitable to that sacred function This is hereby given to the persons thus ordeined being such as are fit for Haec impositio significat collationem gratiae non quod Ministri dent gratiam sed quod significant gratiam datam a Christo Aquin. Com. ad Text. Cartwright ib. and do make a right use of this ordinance Given to them not by the opus operatu●● the work done as if there were any such intrinsecal vertue in this Ceremonie This wee renounce as a Popish dream and that too gross to bee owned by some of their Doctors But only this is as I said a vehiculum an Instrument and a means whereby this Grace is conveyed So Mr. Cartwright there within a few lines explains himself It is a frantick device saith hee to imagin that by the very work of imposition of hands grace is given which is only the instrumental mean whereby it is given In such a way it is that Sacraments convey Grace not by any Efficiency in themselves but only as Instruments whereby the Spirit of God conferreth that Grace which is represented aed signified by them And in such a way may this Grace bee said to bee conveyed by imposition of hands in this ordinance of Ordination Whence it is that Mr. Calvin who is not wont to bee loose and lavish in his language nor yet ready to gratifie his Adversaries of Rome Impositionem manuum qua Ecclesiae Ministri in suum munus initiantur ut non invitus patior vocari Sacram entum ita inter ordinatia Sacramenta non numero Calv. Inst lib. 4. cap. 14. Sect. 20. Superest impositio manuum quam ut in veris legitimisque Ordinationibus Sacramentum esse concedo c. Calv. ibid cap. 19. Sect 31. by complying with them in any thing that may bee in the least prejudicial to the Truth declares himself once and again not to bee unwilling to indulge this Ceremony thus used the name of a Sacrament Non invitus patior vocaris Sacramentum Not that he is willing to allow it a room among the ordinary Sacraments which are seals of the Covenant of Grace of which kind he owns only two But in as much as herein it resembles a Sacrament it being by divine Ordination instrumental as a morralsign in conveying Ministeriall Grace as the signs in the Sacraments are in conveying the Grace of the Covenant So he Nec hic ritus est inane spectaculum sed cum precatio accedit impetratur spiritus Sanctus ordinando nisi ipse sit impius Hypocrira Heming Com. ad Text. Wherein wee shall not finde him singular Surely saith Hemingius this Ceremony of imposition of hands it is not inane spectaculum a meer Pageant to bee gazed and looked upon but an operative sign which being as it ever must bee accompanied with prayer now the Holy Ghost is hereby impetrated and obtained for the person or deined unless hee bee one that is an Hypocrite And to him consents Aretius who also writing upon the Text and taking notice how God was wont heretofore in the Primitive times to own this Ordinance of his by giving some evidence that the person so set apart was well pleasing to him hee adds Et