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A39854	Two sermons the first preached in Christ-Church, Dublin, Feb. 19, 1681, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God, William Lord Bishop of Kildare, William Lord Bishop of Kilmore, and Richard Lord Bishop of Kilalla : the other, preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, at the primary visitation of the most Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Arch-bishop of Dublin, Apr. 24, 1682 / by S. Foley ...	Foley, Samuel, 1655-1695.; Moreton, William, 1641-1715.; Sheridan, William, 1636-1711.; Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Marsh, Francis, 1627-1693.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1400; ESTC R2994	25,191	58

in the Commission which Christ gave his Apostles (e) Mat. xxviii 18 20. Go and teach or make Disciples in all Nations and lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the World Now they themselves were not to live so long and therefore this special Presence and Assistance must be understood to have been promised to their Successors also Farther Christ sent them as his Father sent him that is with such Authority to Ordain others and to Institute Ecclesiastical Discipline and so to make Successors and to communicate to them of that Spirit which he breathed on them as Moses did to Joshua (f) Deut. xxxiv 9. the Spirit of Wisdom by laying their hands upon them And hence it was that St. Paul told the Bishops of Asia upon whom he had lay'd his hands when upon his Summons They met him at Miletus (g) Acts xx 28. That the Holy Ghost had made them Overseers or Bishops over the Church of God I may add that all Disputers in this Cause and all Pretenders to different Forms of Church-Government do Acknowledge some Form to be always necessary and consequently Authority to Rule and Govern for ever to reside in some Persons or other 4. That Bishops be the true extent of their Authority what it will are declar'd to be in Scripture and were look'd upon in the first Ages h of the Church as Successors to the Apostles and so Authoriz'd by Christ to Govern this Society Thus far we have but little Controversie with the main Opposers of Episcopacy For they cannot deny but that our Bishops are Presbyters and therefore if as they will have it Presbyters were the Antient Bishops and are Successors to the Apostles our Bishops upon that account are so If therefore we be satisfied that Our Saviour gave some Power and Authority to his Apostles with a design that They should leave it to others to be transmitted through all Ages (h) St. Cyprian Epist 75. p. 225. Edit Oxon. Potestas peccatorum remittendorum Apostolis data est Ecclesiis quas illi à Christo missi Constituerunt Episcopis qui eis Ordinatione Vicariâ successerunt successively to some fit persons for the Exigencies of the Church and that our Bishops are Successors to those Apostles which one Party of our Churches Adversaries are obliged to own by virtue of their being Presbyters and which the other have no pretence to deny here in Ireland whatever Fables (i) For Confutation of which See Mason's Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Primate Bramhali's Works and the Second Part of Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation they have invented to disparage the English Consecrations we being able to prove That our present Bishops of Ireland were Consecrated by (k) For Instance His Grace the Most-Reverend Father in God Michael Boyle the present Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland together with Dr. Margetson the Late Primate of Ireland the truly Learned and Pious Dr. John Parker late Lord Arch-Bishop of Dublin Dr. Pullen then Arch-Bishop of Tuam and the present Lord Arch-Bishop of Cashell and Seven other Bishops who died since were Consecrated Jan. 27. 1660. By Dr. John Bramhall Arch-Bishop of Armagh who was Consecrated May 26. 1634. by Primate Vsher who was Consecrated Anno 1621. by Primate Hampton who was Consecrated May 5. 1613. by Dr. Thomas Jones who was Consecrated by Adam Lostus Arch-Bishop of Dublin 12. May 1584. who was Consecrated by Hugh Curwin Anno 1562. who was Consecrated Arch-Bishop of Dublin Septemb. 8. 1555. being the Third Year of Queen Mary together with James Turberville Bishop of Exceter and William Glin Bishop of Bangor This appears out of our Records and by this may any of the present Lords Bishops of Ireland Justifie their Consecration such Bishops as receiv'd their Consecration from other Consecrated Bishops and so on to before the Reformation from Records never in the least question'd or suspected we must Acknowledge that what Authority our present Bishops have They have from Christ Jesus The way being thus far clear'd before I proceed to the main thing behind to wit To demonstrate that Bishops are a distinct Order from and above Presbyters by that Authority They have receiv'd from Christ I shall deduce some few Corollaries from what has been said such as 1. 'T is evident from hence That when the Apostles Ordained Bishops they did it by Authority given them by our Saviour and not only in pursuance of a Jewish Custom of creating Elders which the famous Mr. Selden so much contends (l) Selden de Synedriis Lib. 1. Cap. 14. for Had they not done it upon an Account peculiar to Christianity St. Paul when a Jew and a most violent Persecutor of Christs Church had had as full Authority to make Bishops as when a Apostle and must have deriv'd it not from the Holy Ghost as he constantly Affirms but from his Master Gamaliel 2. Hence it follows That Bishops have not their Authority from the Civil Magistrate There is a great difference between the designation of a Person to an Office and the giving him Authority in it Thus a Mayor of a Corporation is Chosen by the Burgesses of it but receives his Authority from the King alone and so in many other instances And therefore this Assertion of ours cannot be suspected as any way prejudicial to our Princes Antient Right of Electing Bishops The Church is a Society and Body Politick distinct from that of the Common-wealth which appears from hence That it did subsist when separated from and persecuted by all Civil-Powers it is founded upon Principles different from the Law of Nature and common Notions of Mankind and settled by Divine Positive Laws and consequently the Government of it must be proportionable And they who resolve to hold the contrary Opinion may take its Foundation along with it and believe the Gospel it self to be no Law but as Enacted by the Civil Magistrate 3. We may hence infer that all other Bishops are not merely Substitutes of the Bishop of Rome and that he in the Right of St. Peter is not the Only Bishop who hath his Authority from Christ so that all must receive theirs from him This was with much Vehemence and equal Applause defended in the (m) Hist Council of Trent Lib. 7. pag. 574. of the last Edition Engl. Council of Trent by Father Laynez General of the Jesuits and Friar Simon a Florentine did there likewise maintain That the Institution of Bishops in the Apostles was only Personal and ended with them But this as the good Bishop of Paris then said is a Novel Doctrine first invented by Cajetane to gain a Cardinalship and as such was Censured by the Doctors of the Sorbonne and Richerius a (n) Richerius Cap. 10. Sect. 11. Sorbonne Doctor in his History of General Councills lately Printed has made it out That in Antient Times the very Italian Bishops themselves did subscribe Bishops Dei Gratia

made one it may be humbly supposed that these Reverend Persons will labour to reduce Offenders by the Censures of the Church and make some use of Ecclesiastical Discipline so long by the misfortunes of the times disused that we are just upon the point of forgetting that ever there was such a thing and that they will do this with Vigour and Resolution though they know 't will prove as of necessity it must very ungrateful to many and though they thereby procure ever so much ill will and gain for it among us only Curses from the Prophane and graver Reproaches from the Hypocritical This is a Time to shew their Zeal for the House of God a Time to shew their Christian Fortitude and Constancy and seeing they are so well furnish'd with Power by their Lord and Master and so much Countenanced by an Excellent Prince we may expect that they will not like those Children of Ephraim (h) Psal lxxviii of whom King David tells us being harnassed and carrying Bows turn themselves back in the day of Battle And 't will be thought but reasonable that as they ingage themselves in it so they will protect those persons who are Active and Zealous in the Churches Service from the unworthy and vile entertainments of those who hate the Church All this men will make bold and think they may be justly allowed to expect from them In fine They stand in view of many critical and malicious Observers and therefore must Walk Circumspectly because the days are so very Evil. Above all considering that from them as St. Paul (i) Hebr. xiii 17. Canon Apost 40. C●●… Concil Antioch the Canons of the Apostles and of the Council of Antioch teach us God will exact an Account of all the Souls committed unto them And may they imitate the Holiness and Integrity the Justice Charity Temperance Humility and Zeal of their worthy Predecessors in the Primitive Times that so having been thus Wise (k) Dan. xii 3. and such Teachers they may hereafter shine as the brightness of the Firmament and having turned many unto Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever And so I come in the Fourth and Last place briefly to consider What Honour and Respect is due to them from us As these Reverend Persons are of God's own Appointment so their Labours are for our great and unspeakable Advantage and therefore we cannot but believe that they ought to be Loved and Honour'd by us Nature dictates to us that God is to be Worshipped and therefore they who are immediately instrumental and assistant to us in holy Services are to have proportionable respect it being one of the principal ways we have of shewing how much we honour God Some call the universal Practice of mankind the Voice of Nature and therefore would time allow I might here take occasion to tell you out of Antient Historians (l) Strabo Geog. Lib. 2. Pag. 346. Pag. 384. Lib. 17. Pag. 566. That among the Albans the Priests had the Honour next to the King Of the great Dignity of the Priests among the Comani and in Meroe and of the Respect pay'd to the Druids That the King of Sparta was Priest of Jupiter That Plutarch tells us that among the Grecians the Priesthood was of equal Dignity with the Kingdom (m) Quaest Rom. 110. That Aristotle testifies the same in many places of his Politicks That the Roman Pontifex Maximus had his Sella Curulis and Lictors as the Consuls had and that the Emperous were often Ambitious of that Office To proceed That Melchisedec was a King and a Priest that the Princes of On and Midian were Priests that great was the Dignity of the High-Priest and of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ruler of the Synagogue among the Jews That in the New Testament our Bishops are often peculiarly Entituled Gods Servants and therefore we must Acknowledge that 't will not be for his Honour that they who are his Domesticks and immediate Attendants be trampled on be in want in meanness and disgrace (n) St. Paul speaking of his own being Slandered useth the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in Scripture peculiarly signifies Speaking Vnworthily of God which we call Blasphemy as Observ'd by the Reverend Bishop Sanderson on Rom. iii. 8. They are represented to be God's Heralds Embassadors and as it were his Residents among men and such have ever been held honourable and their Persons inviolable among even the most Barbarous People That the good Old Christians (o) Vid. Pet. de Marc. Tom. 2. Pag. 53. Pag. 397. paid their Bishops the greatest Veneration even the Emperour (p) Lib. 3. de Vita Constantini Theod. Hist Eccl. Constantine himself so great honour that this Age will not bear the very mentioning of it That in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries the Learned Fathers both of the Greek and Latin Churches gave to the Bishops the Titles of Principes So St. Hilary in the beginning of his Eighth Book De Trinitate calls them Principes Ecclesiae And Gregory Nazianzen who was so Humble and Pious that rather than that the Peace of the Church should be disturbed he did in the first Constantinopolitan Council resign the great Patriarchate of that City and retire do's challenge these Titles That the good People (q) Greg. Nazianzen Orat. 17. To the Bishop are ascribed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gave the greatst Expressions of concern for St. Chrysostom when Banish'd for Nazianzen's Father when Sick (r) Chrysost Tom. 4. p. 763. Edit Paris and for Basil Bishop of Caesarea (s) Nazian Orat. 19. pag. 304. Edit Paris 1609. when he lay a Dying Instances of this sort are infinite I might shew at large how great Respect the Foreign Reformed Divines of most Note have payed to our Bishops particularly that Calvin Beza Sadeel nay the whole Consistory of Pastors at Geneva that Danaeus Peter Martyr Gualierus Spanhemius and others do in their Works call our Bishops Lords and Most Reverend Fathers in God enough one would think to secure the Title from being Antichristian and I might mention what ours and all the Wisest Princes of Europe have thought due to them In short we are not to learn our duties from the corrupt practice of a Profane Atheistical Generation nor of some men of late years famous only for being Ill-natur'd and Troublesome We know the evil Consequences of making the Clergy and way Contemptible and may believe King Solomon (t) Eccles ix 16. at least our own Experience that the Poor the despis'd Man's Wisdom is despised and his words are not heard We find that Moses knowing that he was soon to be gathered to his People besought God that he would please to Appoint one to succeed him and thereupon God commanded him to take Joshua and lay his hand upon him and to give him a Charge before all the Congregation and adds (u) Numbers xxvii 20. 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TWO SERMONS The First Preached in Christ-Church Dublin Feb. 19. 1681. AT THE CONSECRATION Of the Right Reverend Fathers in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Kildare WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Kilmore AND RICHARD Lord Bishop of Kilalla The Other Preached in The Cathedral Church of St. Patrick At the Primary Visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God FRANCIS Lord Arch-Bishop of Dublin Apr. 24. 1682. By S. FOLEY A.M. Fellow of Trinity Colledge near Dublin and Chaplain to His Grace LONDON Printed for Moses Pitt● at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1683. To the Right Reverend Fathers in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Kildare WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Kilmore AND RICHARD Lord Bishop of Kilalla My Lords THE Sermon which I had the Honour to Preach at the Consecration of Your Lordships I do now Publish in hopes that it may give a little Satisfaction to some mistaken People who may happen to read it and I dedicate it to Your Lordships in hopes that Your Lordships will demonstrate that that is feasible which I say will be expected from and that that Respect is deserved by which I say is due to those of Your Lordships Order I am my Lords Your most dutiful and humble Servant SAMVEL FOLEY A Consecration SERMON PREACHED In Christ-Church Dublin Feb. 19. 1681. The beginning of the Epistle appointed by the Church for this Service being 1. Timothy iii. 1. This is a true Saying if a man desire the Office of a Bishop he desireth a good work ST Paul having in the preceding Chapters given Timothy some general Account of the true Faith and suitable Worship of God as a necessary means for the continuing and extending of the one and for the becoming performance of the other proceeds in this to treat of the Government of the Church And by way of Introduction to what relates to the particular Offices of those persons who were to be respectively concern'd in it He makes a Declaration to this purpose That whosoever desires to be invested with that Power and Authority which of Right belong to the highest and most eminent of them he desires an Employment worthy and honourable an Office by which he may be enabled to do some Service to his great Creator be a publick Blessing to the Age he lives in a Dispenser of God's Favours to men and as it were an Agent to maintain and keep up a Correspondence between Earth and Heaven For this I judge a Paraphrase not strained on the Apostles words This is a true Saying c. Being to speak before this great and honourable Audience upon this Occasion and Subject I shall humbly beg leave to make a modest Enquiry into these following particulars First Whence our present Bishops have their Authority Secondly Whether Episcopacy hath any Advantages above other Forms of Church-Government Thirdly What may be justly and reasonably expected from Persons entrusted with that Sacred Authority Fourthly What Honour and Respect is due from us to them By what I shall say in resolution hereunto 't will I hope be plain enough That he desires a good Work who desires the Office of a Bishop I begin with the First Enquiry Whence our present Bishops have their Authority That ever since these Nations have pretended to Adore Jesus Christ as their Lord and Redeemer They have in Obedience to him Worshipped God after a way not known before is denied by none That all who have agreed in this belief and way of Worship have reputed themselves in that respect a Community different from Civil Bodies Politick is as evident from their Exercising and Submitting to an Authority distinct from all Civil Power That Bishops have been the Chief meerly Spiritual Governours of this Society from the very first Constitution of it here and that those Venerable Persons whom we now call Bishops have receiv'd the Spiritual Authority they claim from others of that Order and Title who received the same from their Predecessors and so in a continued series from the first entertainment of that Religion in these Islands were it necessary might with much ease be clearly made out So that the Question will be reduc'd to very narrow Terms What Authority and from whom the first planters of Christianity among us were intrusted with to Communicate to others For more full Satisfaction in this matter it being liable to many mistakes of evil consequence I shall lay down what I have to say concerning it in these distinct and plain Propositions 1. That Our Blessed Saviour had Power and Authority to Institute and Form a Society over the whole World to be governed by such Laws and such Officers as he should appoint This is evident both from the Prophecies concerning the (a) Isaiah ix 6. Messiah in the Old Testament That the Government should be upon his Shoulders and the like and also from what is said of Jesus Christ in the New That (b) Acts x. 38. Hebr. iii. 1. 1 Pet. ii 25. Mat. xxviii 18. Proprie Episcopus Dominus Jesus est Origen on Mat. xxiv God Annointed him with the Holy Ghost and as it were Consecrated him to be Vniversal Pastour and the great Apostle and High Priest of our Profession and Bishop of our Souls and that he had all Power both in Heaven and in Earth and that he did in his own Person Rule and Govern make Laws and constitute Governours and not only did he declare Gods Will to Mankind but did also take order that such Persons should be admitted into that his Society by Baptism as were willing to submit to the Rules and Constitutions of it 2. That Our Saviour committed the Government of this Society to those who in the Evangelists are call'd Apostles This appears from the tenour of the Commission which he gave them when he breathed on them the (c) John xx 21 22. Holy Ghost As my Father sent me so send I you Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosesoever Sins ye retain they are retained 3. The same Authority which was given to the Apostles to Govern this Society excepting those attendants of Gifts as of Tongues doing Miracles and the like Extraordinary Helps and Supplies which the Necessity of the Primitive Church requir'd till it came in the Vnity of the Faith unto a perfect Man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ as St. Paul expresses it was for ever to continue to their Successors This appears from the very Nature and Design of that Government which Christ appointed it being so absolutely necessary to the preservation (d) Ephes iv of his Society and consequently of his Religion that such a Society could not subsist without it and therefore as necessary to continue that Society as first to form it Some will think more necessary in succeding Ages than at that time when our Saviour's Miracles were so fresh in their remembrance their Devotion so new and their Zeal so warm and vigorous We likewise find this plainly intimated

who did oppose the Superiority of Bishops above Presbyters was Aerius almost 330 Years after our Saviour a very Proud Humorsome Man who because he could not obtain a Bishoprick which he aimed at as Epiphanius informs us (p) Epiphanii Haeress 56. seu utalii 75. Speaking of Aerius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Afterwards Eustathius made him a Presbyter and Master in the Hospital in P●ntus but for all this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he after much shew of discontent quitted the Place and led many poor people after him telling them that a Presbyters was as good as a Bishop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he resolv'd that a Bishop was not above a Presbyter and for his he was by the good Men of those days condemn'd of Heresie and therefore we cannot but suspect that there is a little too much assurance in the Men of our Times who desire to be thought most Pure and Orthodox and yet will undertake against the whole Church of God for many hundreds of Years to defend a Notorious Infamous Heretick a Heretick who had no Sober Man in those Ages to Countenance him For as for Medina who says That St. Hierome Sedulius and others were of his Heresie the Most Learned Arch-Bishop of Spalato do's prove him (q) In his Second Book De Republ. Eceles cap. 3. Of the difference between the Opinions of St. Hierons and Aerius See the Learned John Forbes his Irenicum Lib. 2. cap. 11. to be very impudent for saying so But all this and much more of this nature makes but little with some in this Cause For when by Learned Men it was demonstrated That Bishops were above Presbyters in the very First and Purest Ages of the Church They whose Passions or Interests had render'd them Enemies to that Order made this Reply That Diotrephes sought the Preheminence in the Apostles times and the Mystery of Iniquity did then begin to work Among others this is the Answer of a Presbyter of great Fame and Repute among his Followers who were deeply Engag'd in the Late Troubles Alezander Henderson (r) Henderson 's First Paper Pag. 157. Of the Edit Anno 1649. and his Second Paper Pag. 170. I wind together Diotrephes and the Mystery of Iniquity the one as an Old Example of Church-Ambition which was also too palpable in the Apostle themselves and the other as a Cover of Ambition afterwards discovered which two brought forth the great Mystery of the Papacy at last in a Letter to the Late King of Blessed Memory and in his First Paper he had the modesty to call our Bishops The (s) His First Paper Pag. 154. It is too well known That the Reformation of Hen. VIII was most imperfect in the Essentials of Doctrin Worship and Government and although it proceeded by some degrees afterwards yet the Government was never Reformed the Head was Changed Dominus non Dominium and the whole Limbs of the Antichristian Hierarchy retained upon what Snares and Temptations of Avarice and Ambition the great Enchanters of the Clergie I need not express Limbs of the Antichristian Hierarchie I shall not positively Charge him with what a Reverend Divine who had been a Member of the Synod of Dort tells us (t) Bishop Hall Of Episcopacy Pag. 52. was Reported of him That when he was Moderator of that famous Assembly at Glasgow (u) See the Large Declaration about the Troubles in Scotland Pag. 237. he said That St. Paul himself by Appointing Bishops was a Worker in that Mystery of Iniquity But 't was not long after that this Answer was Applauded That the Socinians Independents and Anabaptists took confidence from he Example and termed the Mystery of the Holy Trinity the Power of inflicting Ecclesiastical Censures and the Baptizing of Infants The Mystery o Iniquity And truly some Learned Men think that there cannot be more said for the Baptizing of Infants nay for the Cannon of the Scripture and for the Observation of the Lord's Day it self than for Episcopacy However shall we think that our Saviour would be so unkind to his Church as to deliver it up wholly to the Management of Antichrist for fifteen hundred years together Nay if Bishops because Bishops must be Antichrists how can we avoid reckoning St. James himself the Brother of our Lord the Antichrist of Jerusalem Timothy the Antichrist of Ephesus and Titus of Creet And St. John should not have directed his Epistles to the Seven Angels but in our New Stile to the Seven Antichrists of the Churches of Asia Shall we think that Christ's Apostles themselves who Lived to See and to Establish Episcopacy as to the Essential Parts of it as it now stands would betray his Church into the hands of Antichrist and help to exalt the Man of Sin and that many of the most Godly and Faithful Servants of Jesus Christ the Blessed Martyrs of the Primitive Church would be themselves Limbs of Antichrist and rejoyce in him far be it from us to entertain such horrid Imaginations But to take no farther Notice of odious Terms and ill Language Did Christ's Apostles behave themselves Unfaithfully in their Charge and when they had Converted Persons enough to make a Church did they Establish any other Form of Government than what they had receiv'd Commission from their Master to Establish and which was to Endure to the End of the World all which Time we see he has promised his special Presence and Assistance to their Legal Successors And as to those who succeeded the Apostles shall we suspect that such good Men that Men who died for the Gospel durst presume to set up a Government contrary to it and so unanimously agree in so wicked a Contrivance They were doubtless Holy Conscientious and Mortified Persons very Humble and Devout and therefore we cannot honestly say as some would have the first devisers of Episcopacy to have been That they were Covetous Proud Ambitious Tyrannical and Usurpers Was it Honour Riches State and Grandeur that those Humble Patient Men who were always under Persecution could be Corrupted and Allured with in those Days when as the famous Petrus de Marca upon occasion (w) Pet. de Marc. de Concord Tom. 2. Pag. 81. Sect. 4. of Pope Leo his Letter to Anastasius Bishop of Thessalonica truly observes That Episcopatus erat veluti gradus quidam ad crudelissima supplicia a Bishoprick intituled the Possessour only to the Priviledge of being more Barbarously Tormented than othes Nay after that Age the Bishops themselves were so good Men so excellent (x) Calvin's Instit Printed at Geneva 1550. cap. 8. Sect. 53. that Calvin says and we may venture to take his word when he speaks well of any of that Order that a bad Bishop would have been esteemed instar portenti as a strange prodigious thing shall we suppose that these Men would be so abominably ungrateful to their Lord and Saviour as most Sacrilegiously to violate his own Institution and so injurious to their