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A32800 Of Episcopal confirmation in two discourses / by B. Camfield. Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693. 1682 (1682) Wing C381; ESTC R14520 52,623 130

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take it in evil part saith he the thing is true Their small regard hereunto hath done harm to the Church of God ☞ That which Error rashly uttereth in disgrace of good things may peradventure be spunged out when the Print of those Evils which are grown through Neglect will remain behind There is no default or defect saith profound Dr. L. 10. c. 50 Jackson in the Church of England's Doctrine or Laws concerning Baptism or Confirmation of such as have been Baptized in their Infancy But I dare not avouch so much for justifying the men unto whom the Execution of those Laws is especially commended whether they be of Lower or Higher or of the Highest Rank c. In this point who can deny saith the Pious and Reverend Dr. De Confir p. 81. Hammond but there is fit place for Reformation And his Worthy and Learned Friend Dr. Henchman the Late Lord Bishop of London but when he wrote of Salisbury in his praeliminary Discourse to that excellent Treatise of his de Confirmatione urgeth the matter home upon us If these things saith he at last Praelim Diatrib H. S. take not hold of our minds where is the Discipline for so many Years designed and thought on ☜ and during the Oppression and Rage of the late Tyranny promised if ever good day should shine upon us Behold our Most Gracious and Merciful God hath commanded his Sun to shine bright again upon our Island and calmed the Tempest which toss'd our Ship and now calls for the performance of our Vow unto him the Vow which we made when we were in Trouble Let us offer unto him this Holy and sincere Worship whilst we every one readily discharge our respective Duties in this particular Which that we may all do God of his Infinite Mercy grant for Christ his Sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost that Blessed Trinity in whose name we were baptized and whose Disciples at our Confirmation we own and profess our selves to be be ascribed by us as is most due all Honor Glory Praise and Adoration now and for evermore Amen THE END APPENDIX ALthough I have said enough to obviate most of the Common Objections against this Sacred Rite of Confirmation in the fore-going Pages yet because I find them all epitomized in the stoutest Champion of the Old Nonconformists whose Eructations have been lick'd up by the New as Homer's were by the Succeeding Poets and as full an Answer to them though compendious and Ironical in our Excellent Hooker I will take the pains here for the Reader 's Benefit to transcribe both in Order T. C. Reply to Answer to the Admonit p. 160. In his Reply to the most Reverend Arch-Bishop Whitgift speaketh thus Tell me why there should be any such Confirmation in the Church being brought in by the feigned Decretal Epistles of Popes But this is retracted by him L. 3. p. 232. That it is Ancienter than the feigned Decretal Epistles I yield unto and no one Title thereof being once found in Scripture and seeing it hath been so horribly abused and not necessary why ought it not to be utterly abolished And Thirdly This Confirmation hath many dangerous points in it The First step of Popery in this Confirmation is the laying on of Hands upon the Head of the Child whereby the Opinion of it that it is a Sacrament is confirmed especially whenas the Prayer doth say that it is done according to the Example of the Apostles which is a manifest untruth and taken indeed from the Popish Confirmation The Second is for that the Bishop as he is call'd must be the only Minister of it whereby the Popish Opinion which esteemeth it above Baptism is confirmed For while Baptism may be ministred of the Minister and not Confirmation but only of the Bishop there is great Cause of Suspicion given to think that Baptism is not so serious a thing as Confirmation seeing this was one of the principal Reasons whereby that wicked Opinion was established in Popery I do not here speak of the Inconvenience that men are constrained with Charges to bring their Children oftentimes half a score miles for that which if it were needful might be as well done at Home in their own Parishes The Third is for that the Book saith a Cause of using Confirmation is That by Imposition of Hands and Prayer the Children may receive Strength and Defence against all Temptations whereas there is no Promise that by the laying on of Hands upon Children any such Gift shall be given And it maintaineth the Popish Distinction that the Spirit of God is given at Baptism unto Remission of Sins and in Confirmation unto Strength Hear we now Mr. Hooker in few but weighty words closing up his Nervous Discourse about Confirmation with a particular Retort to all these Objections Thus much generally spoken Eccles Po●ic l. 5. p. 263. may serve for Answer to their Demands that require us to tell them why there should be any such Confirmation in the Church seeing we are not ignorant how earnestly they have protested against it and how directly although untruly for so they are content to acknowledge it hath by some of them been said to be first brought in by the feigned Decretal Epistles of the Popes Or why it should not utterly be abolished seeing that no one Title thereof can be once found in the whole Scriptures except the Epistle to the Hebrews be Scripture ch 6.2 c. And again seeing that how free soever it be now from abuse if we look back to times past which wise men do always more respect than the present it hath been abused as what good thing hath not and is found at length no such profitable Ceremony as the whole silly Church of Christ for the space of these sixteen Hundred Years hath through want of Experience imagined Last of all seeing also besides the Cruelty which is shew'd towards poor Country People who are fain sometimes to let the Plow stand still and with incredible wearisome Toyl of their feeble Bodies to wander over Mountains and through Woods it may be now and then little less than a whole half-score miles for a Bishop's Blessing which if it were needful might as well be done at home in their own Parishes rather than they to purchase it with so great Loss and intollerable pain There are they say in Confirmation besides this three terrible Points The First is laying on of Hands with pretence that the same is done to the Example of the Apostles which is not only as they suppose a manifest untruth For all the World doth know that the Apostles did never after Baptism lay Hands on any And therefore S. Luke who saith they did Acts 8. and 19. was much deceived but farther also we thereby teach men to think Imposition of Hands a Sacrament belike because it is a Principle ingrafted by common Light of Nature in the minds of men that all things done by