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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55880	A sermon preached at Exon, in the Cathedral of St. Peter, at the visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Anthony, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Exon by John Prince ...	Prince, John, 1643-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing P3478; ESTC R23297	20,654	52

How shall they Preach except they be sent But then what 's this Call or Ordination we are to take heed unto A Call of the Laicks only Nothing so For however 't was a Custom among the Ancients for the People to nominate and elect those who were to be ordained and prefer them unto the Bishop yet this Nomination was never looked on as a sufficient Ordination without laying on of hands But then whose hands must it be Of a Lay-press-bytery or a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Galamawfree of Lay-and Church-Elders Nothing so neither there 's not a word countenancing so wild a fancy either in Scripture or any sober Ancient Writer The Learned Scultetus acknowledges that he was sometime Scult observ in prim Ep. ad Jun. pag. 35. by great names led into this Error but in his Observations on this Epistle he publickly retracts it in these words Me errasse ingenue profiteor nam quocunque me vertam nullos ego Laicos Presbyteros nullam Laicorum manuum impositionem in allegato D. Pauli loco invenio And then for the explaining that phrase some have kept so much pother about The laying on of the hands of the Presbytery he has a little after these words Itaque Pag. 36. si demus If we grant that the Presbytery here signifies the Assembly of the Elders those Elders were Apostles Evangelists Prophets and the Seventy two Disciples and not Lay-Elders Quorum scriptura unsquam meminit Ibid. says he qui hoc ipso loco a Presbyterio velut ex professo excluduntur But then are the hands of meer Presbyters sufficient Ordination We can't find it neither without the concurrence of a Bishop Our Blessed Saviour the great Bishop of Souls ordain'd Apostles and they Bishops and they were to Ordain Elders in every City Tit. 1.5 The Learned Bishop Hall has a memorable passage to this purpose in his Tract of Episcopacy Confirmation and Ordination were ever held so intrinsecal to Episcopacy that I would fain see says he where it can be shewed That any extremity of necessity Vid. Bishop Hall of Episc Part. 2. Sect. 15. p. 91. and 95. was by the Catholick Church of Christ ever yet acknowledged a warrant sufficient to diffuse them into other hands And I find in the second Apol. for Athanasius that Ischyras was pronounced by no less than a General Council to be no Presbyter because Ordained only by a Presbyter Cons de hoe Ep. Hall de Epis pag. 92.93 Secundae Par. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Apologist All that were Ordain'd by Coluthus the Presbyter in that Schism were look'd on no other than as Laicks And how Ordination has been all along establish'd by Councils and Canons of the Church in the hands of Bishops would be too tedious here to relate From all which we can't but admire at the boldness of some who dare invade the secret Function without any justifiable warrant nothing dreading the dire fate of Vzziah the King 2 Chron. 26.19 and the obstinacy of others who having received their Orders from no other then Presbyters will not yet submit to the imposition of the Episcopal hands So that this is one material point farther every Minister of the Gospel should take heed to himself in But then Lastly What he is farther to take heed unto is Faithfully to discharge his weighty Office after lawful admission into it and that not only in Doctrine of which anon but in making Conscience likewise of fulfilling those Oaths and Promises he has made to Conformity 'T is fear'd a small enquiry would discover a too great Unfaithfulness in this particular How shamefully do some cramp and curtail the solemn Devotion of the Church to make room for their own extempore Conceptions In which how warm and earnest are they as if they would be thought that they did not truly pray till now posting through the Liturgy with that haste and negligence as if they suggested they did it only to avoid Censure and not because the great God could be very acceptably worshipped by that reasonable Service Which has this honour and recommendation that all its most spiteful Adversaries who have not been a few could never yet in so many years draw up any material Objection against it and have still discover'd more weakness in themselves than in that Now there are a sort of persons among us that are Con-Non-Cons party per-pale who serve an humour and an interest of Faction and would be thought a great deal more holy than their Brethren by making Conscience of not doing their Duty These are the bane and pest of the Church as Dr. Ashton in his Case of scandal calls them and work it more mischief than its most profest enemies without The Wild-Boars and subtil Foxes if the Mound and Fence be good may foam and howl and that 's all Whereas those creeping Moles work underground undermine the Foundation turn up the Garden of the Church hinder the Growth and spoil the Beauty of it To abate the Cross or Ring to throw aside the Surplice to omit the Litany and second Service shall recommend a Man farther to some humours than all the Parts and Learning and Sobriety of another that 's faithful to his Duty But I beseech all to remember That 't is God and Conscience and the publick Laws that ought to be satisfied and not a private Interest or a Faction These things Reverend and Beloved I crave your pardon to be your remembrancer in And so much for this first acceptation of the word Take heed I proceed now to the Second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Refrain Restrain your selves as to some things And here I shall briefly consider what they are All things evil And all things of evil report 1. All sinful things To enumerate which the Time forbids me to be particular Nor need I in this grave Auditory declaim long against the intemperance either of Mind or Body Pride or Envy Avarice or Dishonesty Softness or Effeminacy which reproach not only the sacred Function but our Natures and are the stain and shame of the Soul That blushes to be upraided with such things They are Swine Epicuri de grege Porci who are found to delight and glory in such filth as this Hor. Ep. However there is one sin the Danger as well as Scandal of which is so great that I shall crave your patience to be a little more distinct in And that is the gross and crying sin of Simony in which sence soever ye take the word 1. If for unlawful conferring or obtaining Holy Orders which is generally own'd to be the proper Simony we find it a sin of dreadful consequence by that cutting reprehension given to Simon the Sorcerer in the Acts of the Apostles 'T is he whose head is fullest of Learning and Knowledg and whose heart is fullest of Grace and Sanctity and not he who has the fullest Purse or can make the best Interest that ought