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A04388	One of the foure sermons preached before the Kings Maiestie, at Hampton Court in September last This concerning the antiquitie and superioritie of bishops. Sept. 21. 1606. By the Reuerend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Rochester.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1606 (1606)	STC 1451; ESTC S100875	24,815	48

Leuiticall seruice a weekely monethly or annuall course but posuit setled in their persons during life Thirdly their Diocesan Iurisdiction In quo vniuerso for a Parochian assemblie a petty parish came not within S. Pauls cognisance for a Bishop Fourthly the author of these all spiritus sanctus this calling beeing no humane inuention for euery plant which my heauenly Father hath nat 〈◊〉 shall bee rooted out Fifthly the manner thereof that is also in the word posuit First posuit actu he acted it by the hands of the Apostles and so the Episcopall function is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ordināce Apostolical Secōdly posuit iure he hath enacted it for succeeding posteritie and so it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Canon or cōstitutiō of the whole Trinity These are the partes many in number easy for proofe and yet hard in the taske onely in this respect because of whatsoeuer shal be vttered by me in this discourse that of Solomon is verified Non valet quisquam dicere ecce hoc recens est so many treatises there haue bene compiled conferences had bookes stuffed with proofes in this argument to which nothing can bee added and lesse hath beene answered for an answere worse then silence is lesse then nothing Notwithstanding though Quintiliā Seneca do both of them repute it to be tardi ingenii to set a mans wit working no further then his reading I had rather in such a case which stands vpō authority Sapere excōmentario to be wise by other mens labors then sapere prae commentario as some in this very point do who like vnto him Ezec. 28. 3. taking themselues to be wiser then Daniel for he grounded his wisdom vpon books reading prefer their owne fancie before al antiquity My humble request vnto you is it might please you to cast off all preiudice either to the question in hand or the party that handles it and before I enter it to ioyne with mee in humble and hearty praiers vnto almighty God that what shal be vttered by me his vnworthy minister may turne to his glory and to your instruction in Christ Iesu. In which praier c. The first thing I am to handle is the prioritie and superioritie of Bishops ouer their cleargie in this word Episcopos IT is Saint Pauls rule that all things be done decently and in order for where there is no order there can bee no decency the best means for order is when S. Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commandement with authoritie is followed with S. Peters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a subordinate obedience No place doth order become better then the Church of Christ which himselfe in the Canticles calleth Aciem ordinatam an armie well marshalled wherein euery company hath a Captaine both Captaines and companies are vnder one General For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 equalitie in government is the entertainer of confusion saith the Philosopher that is so fit guest for the Churches of the saints saith the Apostle Wherefore as the great shepheard of Israel professed of himself that he led his people gouernd his flock with two staues which Zachary the eleuenth he called the one bandes and the other beautie so the great clauiger of heauen which hath the key of Dauid that shutteth and no man openeth openeth and no man shutteth for his Church gouernment hath left two keyes in the 16. of Matth. the one clauem scientiae the key of knowledge the preaching of the gospell which as the more essentiall part are the bandes of our function for that necessitie is laid vpon vs and wo vnto vs saith Saint Paul if we preach not the Gospel if wee turne not that key The other of power and iurisdiction which by distinguishing of functions causeth as Saint Paul describes it 1. Cor. 12. a singular decency in the Church of Christ the one imposeth a duty haec oportet f●cere there is Zach. his first staffe B●ndes the other maketh for the comlines of the regiment hac decet fieri there is Zach. his second staffe Beauti And as the Father and the Sonne so the holy Ghost also would make it knowne that as in his dedit Ephes. 4. the guifts which he hath conferred vpon Church-men there is an imparitie and some better then other couet after the best guiftes 1. Cor. 12. so in this posuit the functions and offices of the Church hee hath appointed an inequalitie and some to be higher then others not onely that there be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 12. 28. some to gouerne some to obay but that among the gouernours there should be a disparitie of honour in the 1. Tim. 5. some to bee aduanced with double honour in respect of others This is the proiect of the whole Trinitie for Church gouernement and their practise was semblable For God himselfe in the olde Testament in the paritie of priesthood allotteth an imparitie of gouernement one Leuit aboue an other Priestes aboue them and the high-priest chiefe of them all So Christ while he liued on earth of 84. whom hee appointed for the generall seruice which Saint Luke Act● 6. 4. calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ministration of the word he selected 12. to be the principall and superior to the other which appeareth manifestly Act. 1. For as an Apostles room became void one of the 72. was chosen into his place yea euen of those 12. there were as S. Paule intitles them Summi Aposto●● the chiefe Apostles by good coniecture those 3. Peter Iames and Iohn whom in the 2. to the Gal. he calleth Columnas Pillers For those 3. alone did our Sauiour make pertakers of his transfiguratiō on the mount Mat. 17. and of his agony in Geths●many Mat. 26. Which Selection did not so much expresse his loue to them more then the rest as which Nazian well obserueth argue their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prerogatiue preheminence aboue the rest An euident argument or probable at the least Epip maketh therof in that our Sauiour dignified them and not the rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with names stiles of Honour calling Simon Peter Iames and Iohn Boan●rges the sonnes of thunder So the holy ghost after Christes ascention first Symb●lically 1. Cor. ●● distinguisheth persons ecclesiastical placing some as the head others as the eyes others as the feete all together like members of the body with equal concord but vnequal dignitie conspiring together for the safety of the whole Secondly directly in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 3. 13. which the Geneua hath not well translated They which haue ministred well For the words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those which haue discharged the office of a Deacon 〈◊〉 prepare vnto themsel●es 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 to ascend to a higher degree as first

both Preachers Gouernours yet saith Saint Paul If any man obey 〈…〉 note him by a letter and shall I come vnto you with a Rod saith he to the Corinthians which Church had many Pres●yters there is the Censure reserued For the other Philip though full of the holy Ghost and of power hauing preached and conuerted many in Samaria yet had no authoritie to lay-hands vpon any but the Apostles were faine to send from Hierusalem Peter and Iohn to doe that office there is Imposition of hands reserued both these they conueyed vnto Bishops First for Ordination by laying on of hands in this Church of Ephesus there were many Presbyters long before Timothie was appointed their Bishop yet Saint Paul sent him of purpose to Imp●se handes 1. Tim. 5. 22. and for that intent also he left Titus in Creta Neither would the Church of Christ succeeding admit any other but Bishops to that businesse as not iustifiable for the Presbyters either by Reason example or Scripture First for Reason it is a rule which admits no contradiction saith the Apostle that he which blesseth should bee greater then he which is blessed taking it for the benediction which is ex authoritate not deuotione for the subiect may blesse the Prince man blesseth God in heartie deuotion but the blessing of authoritie comes from the greater as honour is in him that confers it not in him that takes it And this is Saint Ambrose his reason Secondly for example not one to bee shewed through the whole storie Ecclesiasticall that any besides a Bishop did it If some one of the inferior ranke presumed to doe it his Act was reuersed by the Church for vnlawfull as in the case of Coll●thus a Presbyter of Alexandria whereof Athanasius and Epiphanius do both make mention who took vpon him to giue orders for which both himselfe was censured and what hee did was reuoked and they receiued as meere Lay-men and no otherwise vnto the communiō whom he had ordered Thirdly For scripture there is none either of Holie men or of the Holy-Ghost not holymen for all the Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one consent do contradict it Chrysostome vpon the 1. Tim. 3. and 4. Theodoret vpon the same places Oecumenius vpon 1. Tim. 5. Ambrose is peremptory that it is neither Fas nor Ius consonant neither with Gods nor mans law that any besides a Bishop should do it Yea Hierom himselfe who setteth a Presbyter like him in Sophocle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aduanceth him as high as he can to make him go aequis ceruicibus with a Bishop yet takes him this one peg downe Excepta Ordinatione what is it saith he that a bishop doth which a Presbyter may not do sauing Ordination No scripture of the Holy-ghost either analogically by consequent or directly by precept For analogie none but the Apostles did it or might do it as before you heard not directly for to what Presbyter was the authority committed as a Presbyter vnto Timothy a Bishop of Ephesus it was said lay hands hastily on no man And to Titus a Bishop of Creta I have left thee here to ordaine presbyters But to each of these there is an obiection First for example that of Ananias Act 9. who being neither Apostle not Bishop onely a disciple laide his handes vpon Paul and had a commission for it True but they were Manus curatoriae not confirmatoriae as appeareth verse 12. to restore his sight not to giue him his function Els should he haue beene first actually consecrated an Apostle of Christ before hee had beene baptised into Christ which was Psal 18. Secondly for scripture Saint Pauls precept seemes to imply a practise of consecration by the Presbyteri in those wordes neglect not the grace which is in thee and was given thee cum impositione manuum presbyterii faire colours in show but they will not hold Shall the Fathers b●e iudges They al with one consent interpret the Presbytery by the Praelacy that is by the Bishops for they onely say the Fathers may doe it Shall moderne writers and the best of them Maister Caluin presbyterii nor the Colledge saith hee is here meant for the Bishops had then and after a colledge of priestes to assist them in their sacred businesse which Saint Hierom calleth Senatum ecclesiae but the office as if Paul shoulde haue said neglect not the grace which was giuen thee when by imposition of handes thou wert made presbyter which interpretation he borrowes from Saint Chrysost. Shal Saint Paul himselfe determine it In the second Tim 1. 6. Stirre vp saith he the grace which is in thee by the laying on of My hands So that either Saint Paul was himselfe that whole Presbyter 〈◊〉 as hauing in him being an Apostle which Bishops also haue all the fūctions Eccl●siastical as the Philosopher speaks of anima rationalis that it hath in it all the inferior faculties both sensitiue and vegetatiue Or at least he was principal in the action without him it might not be done Which were it so yet Master Caluin stands resolute that S. Paul alone did it it preuentes a third obiection taken out of the 4. Carthaginian Councell where there is a Canon that when a Bishop laies handes to giue Orders all the priestes present do withall lay their handes iuxta manum Episcopi True First iuxta manum so that the Bishops hand must necessarily and 〈◊〉 b● on Secondly there is 〈◊〉 scripture a twofould 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stretching forth of the hand the first extended to cōsecrate and b●esse So did the ●a●ria●chs and priestes in the ould testament our Sauiour and his Apostles in the new The other stretched out ad testimo●um for a witnesse and assent The Bishops hand is the first for that blesseth and consecrateth the pre●byters assisting do with their handes 〈◊〉 and approue what hee doth How will that appeare demonstratiuely because if there were an error in the ordination as that a man either insufficient for learning or scandalous for life or otherwise Canonically impeached were admitted into Orders the Bishop only was censured the assisting presbyters neuer called in question whereof the examples are infinite and therefore the diuines haue very well obserued out of that place 1. Tim. 5. 22. lay handes hastily on no man that the Bishop as hee hath manū porrigendā he only hath authority to impose hāds so he hath also manū corrigendam if as S. Basil speaketh he hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hands too hasty and easy for admittance into orders without triall and testimony his hand onely is to bee corrected For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is thou Timothy not the Presbyters that communicatest with their sinne whom thou so admittest So then since neither the error was imputed vnto the Clergie assistant nor the Censure inflicted vpon them the