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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60948	A sermon preached at Lambeth-Chappel on the 25th of November, upon the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God, Dr John Dolben, Lord Bishop of Rochester by Robert South ...	South, Robert, 1634-1716.	1666 (1666)	Wing S4739; ESTC R10014	14,938	39

A SERMON Preached at LAMBETH-CHAPPEL on the 25th of November Upon the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Dr JOHN DOLBEN Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER By ROBERT SOUTH D. D. Publick Orator to the University of Oxford and Chaplain to the Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb for William Nott at the Queens Arms in the middle of the Old Pell-mell near St. James's 1666. To the Right Reverend Father in GOD JOHN Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER Dean of the Cathedral Church of WESTMINSTER And Clerk of the Closet to His Majesty My LORD THough the interposal of my Lord of Canterburies Command for the Publication of this mean Discourse may seem so far to determine as even to take away my Choice yet I must own it to the World that it is solely and entirely my own Inclination seconded by my Obligations to your Lordship that makes this that was so lately an humble Attendant upon your Lordships Consecration now ambitious to Consecrate it self with your Lordships Name It was my Honour to have lived in the same Colledge with your Lordship and now to belong to the same Cathedral where at present you credit the Church as much by your Government as you did the School formerly by your Wit Your Lordship even then grew up into a constant Superiority above others and all your After-greatness seems but a Paraphrase upon those Promising beginnings for what soever you are or shall be has been but an easie Prognostick from what you were It is your Lordships Vnhappiness to be cast upon an Age in which the Church is in its Wane and if you do not those glorious things that our English Prelates did two or three hundred Years since it is not because your Lordship is at all less than they but because the Times are worse Witness those magnificent Buildings in Christ Church in Oxford begun and carried on by your Lordship when by your Place you governed and by your Wisdom encreased the Treasure of that Colledge and which must eternally set your Fame above the reach of Envy and Detraction these great Structures you attempted at a time when you returned Poor and bare to a Colledge as bare after a long Persecution and before you had laid so much as one Stone in the Repairs of your own Fortunes By which incomparably high and generous undertaking you have shewn the World how fit a Person you were to build upon Wolseys foundation A Prelate whose Noble design you Imitate and whose mind you Equal Briefly That Christ-Church stands so high above-ground and that the Church of Westminster lies not flat upon it is your Lordships Commendation And therefore your Lordship is not behind hand with the Church paying it as much Credit and Support as you receive from it for you owe your Promotion to your Merit and I am sure your Merit to your Self All men Court you not so much because a great Person as a Publick good For as a Friend there is none so hearty so Nobly warm and active to make good all the Offices of that endearing Relation As a Patron none more able to oblige and reward your Dependants and which is the Crowning Ornament of Power none more willing And lastly as a Diocesan you are like even to out-do your self in all other Capacities and in a word to exemplifie and realize every Word of the following Discourse which is here most humbly and gratefully presented to your Lordship by Your Lordships most obliged Servant ROBERT SOUTH From St. James's Dec. 3. 1666. A SERMON Preached at LAMBETH-CHAPPEL on the 25th of November Upon the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Dr JOHN DOLBEN Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER 2 Titus last Verse These things Speak and Exhort and Rebuke with all Authority let no man Despise thee IT may possibly be expected that the very taking of my Text out of this Epistle to Titus may engage me in a Discourse about the Nature Original and Divine Right of Episcopacy and if it should it were no more then what some of the greatest and the learned'st persons in the world when men served Truth instead of Design had done before For I must profess that I cannot look upon Titus as so far Vnbishopt yet but that he still exhibits to us all the Essentials of that Jurisdiction that to this day is claimed for Episcopal We are told in the fifth Verse of the first Chapter That he was left in Crete to set things in order and to ordain Elders in every City which Text one would think were sufficiently clear and full and too big with Evidence to be perverted but when we have seen Rebellion commented out of the thirteenth of the Romans and since there are few things but admit of Gloss and probability and consequently may be expounded as well as disputed on both sides it is no such wonder that some would bear the world in hand that the Apostles design and meaning is for Presbytery though his words are all the time for Episcopacy No wonder I say to us at least who have conversed with too many strange unparallel'd Actions Occurrences and Events now to wonder at any thing Wonder is from Surprize and Surprize ceases upon Experience I am not so much a Friend to the stale Starched Formality of Preambles as to detain so great an Audience with any praevious discourse extrinsick to the Subject matter and design of the Text and therefore I shall fall directly upon the Words which run in the form of an Exhortation though in appearance a very strange one for the matter of an Exhortation should be something naturally in the Power of him to whom the Exhortation is directed For no man exhorts another to be strong beautiful witty or the like these are the felicities of some Conditions the objects of more Wishes but the effects of no mans Choice Nor seems there any greater reason for the Apostles exhorting Titus That no man should despise him for how could another mans Action be his Duty Was it in his power that men should not be wicked and injurious and if such persons would despise him could any thing pass an obligation upon him not to be despised No this cannot be the meaning and therefore it is clear that the Exhortation lies not against the Action it self which is onely in the Despisers power but against the just occasion of it which is in the will and power of him that is Despised it was not in Titus's power that men should not despise him but it was in his power to bereave them of all just cause of doing so it was not in his power not to be Derided but 't was in his power not to be Ridiculous In all this Epistle it is evident that St. Paul looks upon Titus as advanced to the dignity of a prime Ruler of the Church and entrusted with a large Diocess containing many particular Cities under the immediate Government of their respective Elders and those deriving