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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47044	A sermon preached at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Ambrose Lord Bishop of Kildare in Christ-Church, Dublin, June 29, 1667 / by the right reverend father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of Meath.	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1667 (1667)	Wing J948; ESTC R5267	35,856	90

whatsoever and therefore to be that to which other Churches should conform and Geneva as to Church and Government to be esteemed of all and above all best reformed unto which in that cursed National Covenant in England was respect had particularly Wherein is to be observed the prodigious growth of this last nights mushrom that this but just now standing on its good behaviour and beholding to others votes and approbation and that begged for introducing it and needing an Oath slily imposed and inconsiderately taken for holding the people to it it self also looking on it self jealously whether to be or not yet should it now from a politick Government start up in a moment and be transformed to what is Divine And therefore no longer begging but commanding nor to be now confined to Geneva where first imposed but Geneva in that giving Laws to the world and expecting from other Churches conformity to that as the principal By all which notwithstanding although other Reformed Churches had been in all this time little influenced yet surely by some fatality hath it been with us in these Kingdoms otherwise For this Geneva form well pleasing our English fled to Geneva in Q. Mary's Persecution was by them brought thence in their return by whom it having been for a time hatched in private Conventicles at length was it brought forth and after by strong hand imposed on our Churches for imitation as was that Idol-altar at Damascus patterned for Jerusalem This began in Scotland where Episcopacie was cast off by the Reformers Geneva Principled and that as in Geneva in a way popular and tumultuary so imbibing Reformation with Schism And although in th● other Kingdoms Episcopacy still held and many years flourished after the Reformation to the glory of our Church above all others reformed yet was that sacred Hierarchy in that time by that Party oft pushed at and at length they getting head and power in our late dismal times our very foundations of Government Civil and Ecclesiastical Regal and Episcopal as by a general earthquake were at once and together overturned and in their ruins buried under which universal desolations lay these Kingdoms miserably when as by miracle all were again raised and restored to their former beauty and lustre by His Sacred Majesties glorious and happy Restauration And next and unto His Majesty doth Ireland own Your GRACE in its Settlement both as to Church and State our general settlement of the Kingdom by your great Hand speaking Your glory to generations And whereas all these mentioned evils and miseries had been occasioned by schism and by that particularly concerning Church-government and that this present generation hath been in a great measure bred and educated in an Age where that truth hath been silenced and nothing heard but what hath been loudly against it and the contrary magnified as what only is according to Scripture and considering that this we must now say controversie being cleared mens minds or some of them might be satisfied in the truth and thereby setled in obedience therefore occasion being for it did I take up this subject in which Episcopacy is asserted as Apostolical and the contrary examined so far as the short time then allowed me would admit which being by Your GRACE commanded from me it is thus in due obedience presented yet in some particulars here and there enlarged above what was in publick delivery what is so added being what was intended to have been then spoken had I not been enforced by the time and work of the Day to contract All which is now laid at Your Excellencies feet and under Your great and piercing Judgment there leaving it humbly and ever praying for Your Lordships happiness every way and that the Lord would remember You according to the good by You done for the House of our God and for the Offices thereof Your GRACES In Duty and Service Henry Midensis Dublin 16. Aug. 1667. My LORD I Have more than once read your Lordships very excellent Sermon and do think it not only so convincing in what it aims at but so prudent and seasonable that with your good leave I wish it may be printed and to that end have left the Copy you sent me in my Lord Chancellors Hands What you are pleased to say of me in your Epistle to me is the only questionable part of the Work and if I have not been what you say you teach me what I should be and I receive the Instruction as I ought and remain Your Lordships most Affectionate humble Servant ORMONDE For the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Meath These THE PREFACE TO THE READER WHat is here withall now published was at first intended to have been no farther publique then as spoken But it being since then otherwise ordered and concieving that so necessary a Truth now dark and controversal might require more for its Explication and Proof then was or could circumstances considered be at that time in speaking allowed Therefore is this intended in way of Supplement at present which may be hereafter farther enlarged as opportunity shall be for it if not perhaps thereunto provoked by Gain-sayers whom I expect and provide for The asserting the Episcopal Office and Calling and in that the Government Ecclesiastical of the Christian Church is that now before us concerning which that may be found true which God speaks of some other his Truths in corrupt times I have saith he written to them the great things of my Law but they were counted as a strange thing And what is now so strange as to hear of Episcopacy that it is the true ancient and Apostolical Government of the Church And on the contrary That the Government without Elders Lay or others is but feigned and novel Yet is this a great Truth Episcopacy having been received both in profession and practice in all Ages of the Church from the first of Christianity unto 〈◊〉 last Age whereas now we find this Truth not so much antiquated or forgotten as utterly denied But comparing Scripture and authentick Records of ancient times 〈…〉 evident That Episcopacy is so far Apostolically Divine 1. That Bishops were in the 〈◊〉 times of the Apostles 2. And they by the Apostles themselves ordained and appointed 3. And that in those very times of the Apostles in the Apostolical Churches such as were by the Apostles themselves planted and setled there had been an approved succession of Bishops 4. And that in all the following P●●●●tive Ages of the Church the 〈◊〉 by Bishops so Apostolically ordered had been accordingly received and continued no one Church contradicting in word or practice 5. Lastly nothing heard in all that time of a Government by Elders Lay o● other For manifesting which briefly in particulars it appears 〈…〉 Taking that unto the death of 〈◊〉 John an 〈◊〉 1. That St. James not the Son of 〈◊〉 who was killed by Herod but 〈…〉 killed the 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 brother