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B00327 The forme and manner of making and consecrating bishops, priestes and deacons.; Ordinal Church of England.; Barker, Robert, d. 1645, printer.; Bill, John, d. 1630, printer. 1633 (1633) STC 16473; ESTC S122861 19,142 27

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holy word and the meanes of our saluation that in all our words and deeds we may seeke thy glory and the encrease of thy kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen And if the Order of Deacons and Priesthood be giuen both vpon one day then shall all things at the holy Communion bee vsed as they are appointed at the Ordering of Priests Sauing that for the Epistle the whole third Chapter of the first to Timothie shall bee read as it is set out before in the order of Priests And immediatly after the Epistle the Deacons shall be ordered And it shall suffice the Letany to be said once ❧ The Forme of Consecrating of an Archbishop or Bishop ¶ At the Communion The Epistle THis is a true saying If a man desire the office of a Bishop he desireth an honest worke A Bishop therefore must be blamelesse the husband of one wife diligent sober discreet a keeper of hospitality apt to teach not giuen to ouermuch wine no fighter not greedy of filthy lucre but gentle abhorring fighting abhorring couetousnesse one that ruleth wel his own house one that hath children in subiection with all reuerence For if a man cannot rule his owne house how shall he care for the Congregation of God Hee may not be a young scholler lest he swell and fall into the iudgement of the euill speaker He must also haue a good report of them which are without lest he fall into rebuke and the snare of the euill speaker The Gospel IEsus said to Simon Peter Simon Iohanna louest thou mee more then these Hee said vnto him Yea Lord thou knowest that I loue thee hee sayd to him Feede my Lambes He said to him againe the second time Simon Iohanna louest thou mee Hee said vnto him Yea Lord thou knowest that I loue thee hee said Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our Father which art in heauen c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill Amen The Versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Answere Neither reward vs after our iniquities ¶ Let vs pray O God mercifull Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that wee make before thee in all our troubles and aduersities whensoeuer they oppresse vs and graciously heare vs that those euills which the craft and subtilty of the deuill or man worketh against vs be brought to nought and by the prouidence of thy goodnesse they may be dispersed that we thy seruants being hurt by no persecutions may euermore giue thanks vnto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy Names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou diddest in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and euer shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend vs O Christ Graciously looke vpon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hearts Mercifully forgiue the sinnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Graciously heare vs O Christ graciously heare vs O Lord Christ The Versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed vpon vs. Answere As we doe put our trust in thee ¶ Let vs pray VVE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to looke vpon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Names sake turne from vs all those euils that wee most righteously haue deserued and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and euermore serue thee in holinesse and purenesse of liuing to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Aduocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmightie God which hast giuen vs grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications vnto thee and doest promise that when two or three bee gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy seruants as may be most expedient for them granting vs in this world knowledge of thy trueth and in the world to come life euerlasting Amen ¶ Then shall bee said also this that followeth ALmighty God which by thy diuine prouidence hast appointed diuers orders of Ministers in the Church and diddest inspire thine holy Apostles to chuse vnto this order of Deacons the first Martyr S. Stephen with other mercifully behold these thy seruants now called to the like office and administration replenish them so with the trueth of thy doctrine and innocency of life that both by word and good example they may faithfully serue thee in this office to the glory of thy Name and profit of the Congregation through the merits of our Sauiour Iesu Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost now and for euer Amen Then shall be sung or said the Communion of the day sauing the Epistle shall be read out of Timothie as followeth LIke wise must the Ministers be honest not double tongued nor giuen vnto much wine neither greedy of filthy lucre but holding the mysterie of the faith with a pure conscience and let them first be prooued and then let them minister so that no man be able to reproue them Euen so must their wiues be honest not euill speakers but sober faithfull in all things Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well and their owne housholds For they that minister well get themselues a good degree and a great liberty in the faith which is in Christ Iesu These things write I vnto thee trusting to come shortly vnto thee but and if I tary long that then thou mayest yet haue knowledge how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God which is the congregation of the liuing God the pillar and ground of truth And without doubt great is that mystery of godlinesse God was shewed in the flesh was iustified in the spirit was seene among the Angels was preached vnto the Gentiles was beleeued on in the world and receiued vp in glory Or else this out of the sixth of the Acts. THen the twelue called the multitude of the Disciples together and said It is not meet that we should leaue the word of God and serue tables Wherefore brethren looke yee out among you seuen men of honest report and full of the holy Ghost and wisdom to whom wee may commit this businesse but wee will giue our selues continually to praier and to the administration of the word And that saying pleased the whole multitude
That it may please thee to blesse and keepe the Magistrates giuing them grace to execute Iustice and to maintaine trueth Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe all thy people Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue to all Nations vnity peace and concord Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue vs an heart to loue and dread thee and diligently to liue after thy commandements Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue to all thy people increase of grace to heare meekely thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring foorth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of trueth all such as haue erred and are deceiued Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as doe stand and to comfort and helpe the weake hearted and to raise vp them that fall and finally to beate downe Sathan vnder our feete Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to succour helpe and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to preserue all that trauell by land or by water all women labouring of child all sicke persons and yong children and to shew thy pittie vpon all prisoners and captiues We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and prouide for the fatherlesse children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to forgiue our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turne their hearts We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enioy them Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue vs true repentance to forgiue vs all our sinnes negligences and ignorances and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our liues according to thy holy word We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Grant vs thy peace O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ search for the sicke poore and impotent people of the Parish to intimate their estates names and places where they dwell vnto the Curate that by his exhortation they may be relieued by the Parish or other conuenient almes will you doe this gladly and willingly Answere I will so doe by the helpe of God The Bishop VVIll you apply all your diligence to frame and fashion your owne liues and the liues of your family according to the doctrine of Christ and to make both your selues and them as much as in you lieth wholesome examples of the flocke of Christ Answere I will so doe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you reuerendly obey your Ordinary and other chiefe Ministers of the Church and them to whom the gouernment and charge is committed ouer you following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions Answere I will endeauour my selfe the Lord being my helper Then the Bishop laying his hands seuerally vpon the head of euery of them shall say Take thou authority to execute the office of a Deacon in the Church of God committed vnto thee In the Name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Amen Then shall the Bishop deliuer to eueryone of them the new Testament saying Take thou authoritie to reade the Gospel in the Church of God and to preach the same if thou be thereto ordinarily commanded Then one of them appointed by the Bishop shall reade the Gospel of that day Then shall the Bishop proceed to the Communion and all that are ordered shall tarry and receiue the holy Communion the same day with the Bishop The Communion ended after the last Collect and immediately before the Benediction shall be said this Collect following ALmightie God giuer of all good things which of thy great goodnesse hast vouchsafed to accept and take these thy seruants vnto the offices of Deacons in thy Church make them wee beseech thee O Lord to bee modest humble and constant in their ministration to haue a ready will to obserue all spirituall discipline that they hauing alwayes the testimony of a good conscience and continuing euer stable and strong in thy Sonne Christ may so well vse themselues in this inferiour office that they may be found worthy to bee called vnto the higher ministeries in thy Church through the same thy Sonne our Sauiour Christ to whom be glory and honour world without end Amen And here it must bee shewed vnto the Deacon that hee must continue in that office of a Deacon the space of a whole yeere at the least except for reasonable causes it bee otherwise seene to his Ordinary to the intent hee may be perfect and well expert in the things appertaining to the Ecclesiasticall administration in executing whereof if he befound faithfull and diligent he may be admitted by his Diocesan to the order of Priesthood ¶ The forme of ordering of Priests When the exhortation is ended then shall follow the Communion And for the Epistle shall bee read out of the twentieth Chapter of the Actes of the Apostles as followeth FRom Mileto Paul sent messengers to Ephesus and called the Elders of the Congregation which when they were come to him hee said vnto them Yee know that from the first day that I came into Asia after what manner I haue beene with you at all seasons seruing the Lord with all humblenesse of minde and with many teares and temptations which happened vnto me by the layings a wait of the Iewes because I would keepe backe nothing that was profitable vnto you but to shew you and teach you openly throughout euery house witnessing both to the Iewes and also to the Greekes the repentance that is toward GOD and the faith which is toward our Lord Iesus And now behold I goe bound in the spirit vnto Hierusalem not knowing the things that shall come on me there but that the holy Ghost witnesseth in euery city saying that bands and troubles abide mee But none of these things mooue mee neither is my life deare vnto my selfe that I might fulfill my course with ioy and the ministration of the word which I haue receiued of the
containe sufficiently all doctrine required of necessitie for eternall saluation through the faith in Iesus Christ And are you determined with the same holy Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge and to teach or maintaine nothing as required of necessity to eternall saluation but that you shall be perswaded may be concluded and proued by the same Answere I am so perswaded and determined by Gods grace The Archbishop VVIll you then faithfully exercise your selfe in the said holy Scriptures and call vpon God by prayer for the true vnderstanding of the same so as ye may be able by them to teach and exhort with wholesome doctrine and to withstand and conuince the gainesayers Answere I will so doe by the helpe of God The Archbishop BE you ready with all faithfull diligence to banish and driue away all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to Gods word and both priuately and openly to call vpon and encourage others to the same Answere I am ready the Lord being my helper The Archbishop VVIll you deny all vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and liue soberly righteously and godly in this world that you may shew your selfe in all things an example of good workes vnto others that the aduersary may be ashamed hauing nothing to lay against you Answere I will so doe the Lord being my helper The Archbishop VVIll you maintaine and set forward as much as shall lie in you quietnesse peace and loue among all men and such as be vnquiet disobedient and criminous within your Diocesse correct and punish according to such authority as yee haue by Gods word and as to you shall bee committed by the ordinance of this Realme Answere I will doe so by the helpe of God The Archbishop VVIll you shew your selfe gentle and be mercifull for Christs sake to poore and needy people and to all strangers destitute of helpe Answere I will so shew my selfe by Gods helpe The Archbishop ALmighty God our heauenly Father who hath giuen you a good will to doe all these things grant also vnto you strength and power to performe the same that hee accomplishing in you the good worke which hee hath begun yee may bee found perfect and irreprehensible at the latter day through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall be sung or said Come holy Ghost c. As it is set out in the order of Priests That ended the Archbishop shall say Lord heare our prayer Answere And let our cry come vnto thee ¶ Let vs pray ALmighty God and most mercifull Father which of thine infinite goodnesse hast giuen thy onely and most deare beloued Son Iesus Christ to be our Redeemer and Author of euerlasting life who after that hee had made perfect our Redemption by his death and was ascended into heauen powred downe his gifts abundantly vpon men making some Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists some Pastours and Doctours to the edifying and making perfect his Congregation grant wee beseech thee to this thy seruant such grace that hee may euermore bee ready to spread abroad thy Gospel and glad tidings of reconcilement to God and to vse the authority giuen vnto him not to destroy but to saue not to hurt but to helpe so that hee as a wise and faithfull seruant giuing to thy family meat in due season may at the last be receiued intoioy through Iesu Christ our Lord who with thee and the holy Ghost liueth and reigneth one God world without end Amen Then the Archbishop and Bishops present shall lay their hands vpon the head of the elected Bishop the Archbishop saying TAke the holy Ghost and remember that thou stirre vp the grace of God which is in thee by imposition of hands for God hath not giuen vs the spirit of feare but of power and loue and sobernesse Then the Archbishop shall deliuer him the Bible saying GIue heed vnto reading exhortation and doctrine Thinke vpon these things contained in this booke Be diligent in them that the increase comming thereby may be manifest vnto all men Take heed vnto thy selfe and vnto teaching and be diligent in doing them for by doing this thou shalt saue thy selfe and them that heare thee Bee to the flocke of Christ a shepherd not a wolfe feed them deuoure them not hold vp the weak heale the sicke bind together the broken bring againe the outcasts seeke the lost bee so mercifull that yee be not too remisse so minister discipline that you forget not mercy that when the chiefe shepherd shall come yee may receiue the immarcessible crowne of glory through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Then the Archbishop shall proceed to the Communion with whom the new consecrated Bishop with other shall also communicate And for the last Collect immediately before the Benediction shall bee said this Prayer MOst mercifull Father we beseech thee to send down vpon this thy seruant thy heauenly blessing and so endue him with thy holy Spirit that he preaching thy word may not onely be earnest to reprooue beseech and rebuke with all patience and doctrine but also may bee to such as beleeue an wholsome example in word in conuersation in loue in faith in chastity and purity that faithfully fulfilling his course at the latter day hee may receiue the Crowne of righteousnesse laid vp by the Lord the righteous Iudge who liueth and reigneth one God with the Father and the holy Ghost world without end Amen ❧ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie And by the Assignes of IOHN BILL Anno 1633.