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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

THE FORME AND MANNER OF MAKING and Consecrating BISHOPS PRIESTES and DEACONS ❧ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Maiesty and by the Assignes of IOHN BILL Anno 1633. ¶ THE PREFACE IT is euident vnto all men diligently reading holy Scripture and ancient Authors that from the Apostles time there hath beene these orders of Ministers in Christs Church Bishops Priests and Deacons which offices were euermore had in such reuerent estimation that no man by his owne priuate authoritie might presume to execute any of them except hee were first called tried examined and knowne to haue such qualities as were requisite for the same and also by publique prayer with imposition of hands approued and admitted thereunto And therefore to the intent these orders should bee continued and reuerently vsed and esteemed in this Church of England it is requisite that no man not being at this present Bishop Priest nor Deacon shall execute any of them except he bee called tried examined and admitted according to the forme hereafter following And none shall be admitted a Deacon except hee bee twenty one yeeres of age at the least And euery man which is to bee admitted a Priest shall bee full foure and twenty yeeres old And euery man which is to be consecrated a Bishop shall be fully thirty yeeres of age And the Bishop knowing either by himselfe or by sufficient testimony any person to be a man of vertuous conuersation and without crime and after examination and triall finding him learned in the Latine tongue and sufficiently instructed in holy Scripture may vpon a Sunday or Holy day in the face of the Church admit him a Deacon in such manner and forme as hereafter followeth The Forme and manner of Ordering of DEACONS FIrst when the day appointed by the Bishop is come there shall be an exhortation declaring the dutie and office of such as come to be admitted Ministers how necessarie such orders are in the Church of Christ and also how the people ought to esteeme them in their vocation After the exhortation ended the Archdeacon or his Deputie shall present such as shall come to the Bishop to be admitted saying these words REuerend Father in God I present vnto you these persons present to be admitted Deacons The Bishop TAke heede that the persons whom ye present vnto vs bee apt and meete for their learning and godly conuersation to exercise their ministery duely to the honour of God and edifying of his Church The Archdeacon shall answere I Haue enquired of them and also examined them and thinke them so to be And the Bishop shall say vnto the people BRethren if there be any of you who knoweth any impediment or notable crime in any of these persons presented to be ordered Deacons for the which he ought not to bee admitted to the same let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what the crime or impediment is And if any great crime or impediment be obiected the Bishop shal surcease from ordering that person vntill such time as the party accused shall try himselfe cleare of that crime Then the Bishop commending such as shall be found meete to be ordered to the prayers of the Congregation with the Clearkes and people present shall say or sing the Letany as followeth with the prayers The Ordering of Deacons The Letany and Suffrages O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sinnes Spare vs good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all euill and mischiefe from sinne from the crafts and assaults of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord deliuer vs. From all blindnesse of heart from pride vaine glory and hypocrisie from enuy hatred and malice and all vncharitablenesse Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs. From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famin from battell and murther and from sudden death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuy conspiracie from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and Commandement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mysterie of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Natiuity and Circumcision by thy Baptisme Fasting and temptation Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agony and bloody sweat by thy Crosse and Passion by thy precious Death and Buriall by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the comming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day of Iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. Wee sinners doe beseech thee to heare vs O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and gouerne thy holy Church vniuersally in the right way Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy Seruant Charles our most gracious King and Gouernour Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith feare and loue and that hee may euermore haue affiance in thee and euer seeke thy honour and glory We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giuing him the victory ouer all his enemies Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and preserue our gracious Queene Mary Prince Charles the Lady Mary the Lady Elizabeth the Kings onely sister and her issue Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and liuing they may set it forth and shew it accordingly Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Counsell and all the Nobility with grace wisedome and vnderstanding Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord.

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

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.