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A00761 The priest's duty & dignity. Preached at the trienniall visitation in Ampthill 1635. August 18. by Jasper Fisher Presbyter, and Rector of Willden in Bedford-shire. And published by command Fisher, Jasper, b. 1591. 1636 (1636) STC 10887; ESTC S118693 15,018 59

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forward Ahimaaz Let me run I pray To such hastie Novices Iohn Pecham sometime Archbishop of Canterbury applyes that of David 2. Sam. 10. 5. Manete in Jericho donec crescat barba vestra And others most fitly that of our Saviour Luke 24. 49. Sedete in Ierusalem quoadusque induamini virtute ex alto For what purity what gravity what science what prudence what composed and prepared elocution may be justly expected of an Angell And how shall they preach except they be sent Rom. 10. sent first by God secretly exciting them then by the Church lawfully ordaining them then by their conscience plainly assuring them Secondly it teaches him carefull fidelity in reporting this message The Aegyptians did signifie a holy Scribe by the Hieroglyphicke of a Sive and wee know Him whose Fan is in his hand to be the great Sheepheard and Bishop of soules both are separating instruments and denote that spirituall discretion which is the soule of all judgement That hee neither trust to his owne wit or invention too boldly nor rely upon his memory or nimble tongue too sodainly nor vent himselfe too hastily lest hee speake his own rude words and not the Lords message Here the word at my mouth and then give them warning from me Is the tenour of Gods Commission Ezech. 3. 17. That hee neither augment nor diminish nor corrupt nor confound nor misplace the substantiall parts of divine Revelation But can truly say with the Prophets Heare yee the Word of the Lord with S. Paul I received of the Lord what I delivered unto you For the Angels are thought to speak no more on earth then what they heard in Heaven and the same is well expressed by Homer when he makes the Angels dispatched from his Gods to receive and to declare the same things by the same lines Nor is this a needlesse Tautologie but a most observant veracitie Thirdly it teaches him bold magnanimity in discharging this message I know not how to imbreathe better courage into a Priest then by representing unto him the solemnity of his Ordination When the Bishop laid his hands upon thy Head Remember thou art set apart and separated from all common and profane businesses When thou heardest Receive the Holy Ghost remember thou art elevated above this wicked world and indued with a heavenly power When thou heardest Whose sinnes thou dost forgive they are forgiven O then remember Thou retain not thy own sins who art to loose the sins of others When thou tookest the Bible with authoritie to preach the Word and to minister the holy Sacraments remember thy Commission was sealed in the Court of Heaven and thou dispatched a messenger from the Lord of Hosts Be not then flattered or terrified to please the sinfull multitude and to abuse thy Masters trust Keepe thy Angelicall state retaine the habit and language of thy heavenly Citie conforme not thy selfe to their base vices and vicious customes Mitte ostia Caesar Mitte sed in magnâ legatum quaere popinâ If they hate thee for this Non-conformity and strangenesse know they hated God and Christ first If yee were of the World the World would love his owne as our Saviour pronounces upon his own experience But now yee are not of this World but yee descend like Angels and heavenly Legates into this lower World and returning home yee must expect a reward of your Master sending not of those forreine and mundane Nations to whom yee are sent For yee are the messengers of the Lord of Hosts Lastly this description looks also back upon the people as our Saviour did upon Peter And teaches them First spirituall obedience Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves Heb. 13. If soveraigne Magistrates be Gods I have said yee are gods I am sure consecrated Priests may be counted Angels And there is a majesticall and more then humane splendor in both Offices and a dutifull submission due to the dictates of both persons Saint Pauls proviso had a better ground then some may at the first imagine to reject an Angell from Heaven preaching against his Gospel Galat. 1. For if they will not beleeve one Angel why should they beleeve another If not a Paul why a Gabriel Hast thou then any matter of faith to be resolved any case of conscience to be cleered any temptation to be disabled any suite in heaven to be ended any petition to Christ to be preferred any soule-businesse Why Levies curse is become the peoples blessing Divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Genes 49. God hath his Visores and Legier-ambassadours in every Parish Repaire to thy lawfull Pastor what he bindes and looses with the golden Zone of Christ what hee shuts and opens with the key of David shall be ratified in Heaven Secondly it teaches them respectfull reverence Let the Presbyters that rule well be counted worthy of double honour 1. Tim. 5. 17. The Lord could as easily have sent you true Angels but hee was pleased in mercy to teach men by men Yet that his Ministers shold not lose any due respect the Angels themselves are joyn'd in commission and attend upon our divine Liturgie When Christ the Angell of the Covenant began to preach the Angels came and plaid the Deacons Math. 4. Send men to Ioppa and call for Simon says an Angell to Cornelius Acts 10. As preferring Saint Peter before himselfe in this businesse of conversion And the Angell confesses that hee was but a fellow-servant with the Ministers of the Gospel Revelat. 22. And indeed the word Evangelist supposes him to be a good Angell Let then the majesty of his Master excuse the defects of his person let the Law and Message which hee brings beare out the blemishes of his nature And let both perswade thee to give him a loving and heartie welcome If Abraham and Lot had knowne them to be Angels in the shape of men they wold if possible have given lower obeysance and higher titles Gen. 18. 19. Achilles was not so proud and furious but he would with curtesie salute these Messengers in the very style of our Prophet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nor were the Galatians so rude barbarous though so taxed by Saint Ierome but they received the Apostle Saint Paul as an Angell of God Nay even as Christ Iesus himselfe Galat 4. 14. Thirdly It teaches them liberall beneficence Beside their appointed portions by the Lawes of God and Man If wee did truly love the sender how kindly would wee entertertain his servants How Michah rejoyces when hee had got a Levite into his house Iudg. 17. How the old man of Gibeah bestirres himself to lodge and feast a Levite Iudg. 19. Take heed to thy self that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest Deut. 12. 19. Much more take heed that thou Feare the Lord and honour the Priest Ecclus 7. 31. But O how beautifull upon the mountains are the feet of Evangelicall Messengers cryes the true Church If their feet be so beautifull how glorious are their bodies drest up in Sacerdotall ornaments Let then prophane Edomites and Sacrilegious Hypocrites scoffe at their name person office and attire Let them send Gods Messengers upon their base errands place them below their Serving-men esteeme them below their Parasites nay deride and abuse persecute destroy them for their message But let them know if the injury of Legates hath been so deeply and bloudily revenged as the law of Nations and the Records of History do fully testifie If foolish Hanun lost his Crown and the Ammonites their lives for misusing Davids servants 2. Sam. 10. If the King in the Parable sent forth his Armies destroyed them who slue his Ministers inviting to the Mariage of his Sonne Matth. 22. Then heare a tumultuous noyse of the Kingdomes of Nations gathered together The Lord of Hosts mustereth the host of the battaile Esa. 13. And will revenge the great indignities done to many of his Messengers Especially when they bring you good tydings of great joy a Gospell of peace a covenant of grace a promise of everlasting salvation In one word let the Priest be as an Angell of God in knowing good and evill Let the people piously seeke the Law of him as an Angell sent from God So shall both Priest and people become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like the Angels in purity of holinesse in perfection of happinesse in patheticall singing that Trisagium Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and Earth are full of the majesty of thy Glory to whom the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost bee all power and prayse Amen I submit all to the judgement of my Ecclesiasticall Superiours Aut aberrantem dirige Aut dirigentem sequere The end 4 Doct. Vse 1 2 3. 4 Ob. Sol. 2. 2. 3 Use. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.