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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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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
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.