Selected quad for the lemma: order_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	bishop_n	ordain_v	presbyter_n	5,751	5	10.9253	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65559	A sermon against neutrality whether as to the main substantials of religion or matters of injoyned order / preached at the visitation of the Reverend Doctour Cary, Arch-deacon of Exon, at St. Marie's Exon, on Friday in Easter Week, 1663 by E.W.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1516; ESTC R27060	24,015	54

out of any design of lifting out the Lords day or it's observation which let him be accursed that shall do but of discovering it's true grounds I shall briefly lay down that parallel which a most skilful hand drew in this case contracting or adding according to present occasion There was saith my Author this ground in nature for the Lords day that a certain part of our time should be set apart for the special worship of God in publick and the like ground is there for Episcopacy that to the celebration of that worship certain persons by way of Office should be assigned who for their labours herein should be worthily rewarded Now I adde that whereas in nature there was no more particular ground for one day in seven than for one in eight or one in ten for that reason in the Commandment the Lord rested the seventh day is not intrinsecal to the nature of the thing but proceeded onely from the Will of the Lawgiver prescribing his own example as an incentive to the observation of this his Law Whereas I say there was no more particular ground for that there is in this case a particular ground in the nature of the thing that betwixt all such consecrated persons there should not be a parity or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is this That they are not all of equal ability nor of equal integrity and the State of all Churches here on earth ever was and will be such that they must depute those to teach and watch over others who have need themselves in many cases of their work to walk by the light of others eyes whose Counsels every man naturally prizing his own would have little sway if their Authours had no Authority over them which Authority is also otherwise necessary to keep all in their duty or else punish and remove them so that the People may as well cast off their Ministers as the Ministers their Bishops and we see when the one had hapned the other had very neer succeeded But to return Of the Lords day there was amongst the Jews a pattern one day in seven to be sanctified to God and the like pattern was there of Episcopacy the Government by Chief Priests Priests and Levites Ordained by God himself The Institution of the Lords day came not immediately from Christ himself on earth but from his Apostles whom he left invested with a like Authority to his own after his departure A like institution was there of this also from the same Apostles guided as well in one as in the other by an infallible spirit Which Apostolike Institution give me leave to say may be proved by as good testimonies and authorities as any thing of this nature can be yea by the very same By which we prove the Canon of the Scripture to be the Canon of the Scripture that is these Books no more and no less to be Scripture and if there be any credit to be given to Ancients and he must leave Qui au●toritatem omnem majoribus suts ad●mit sibi nullam relinquit Dr. Pria●aus Fassic Controv. ob 4. himself none who will deny all to them and be besides most miserably guilty of dishonouring his Father and Mother the order came not onely from the Apostles but was honored Percurre Ecclesias Apostolicas apud qua● ipsae adhuc Cathedrae Apostolorum suis locis praesident aliis praesidentur by their being of it Tertullian one of the most Ancient Writers after a challenge made to the Hereticks He had a little before said of the Hereticks Edant origines Ecclesiarum suarum cvolvant ordinem Episcoporum ita per successiones ab initio decurrentem c. Hoc enim modo Ecclesiae Apostolica census suos deferunt sicut Smyrnaeorum Ecclesia habens Polycarpum ab Johanne collocatum refert sicut Romanorum Clementem à Petro ordiratum edit proinde utique caterae exhibent quos ab Apostolis in Episcopatum constitutos Apostolici seminis traduces habent De p●aescript adversus haeret Cap. 32. to shew their succession from the Apostles affirms that as to the true Church the Sees wherein the Apostles themselves had ruled were not onely then in being but had respectively a kind of preheminence and not onely so but could produce Bishops placed in them some by the Apostles some by Apostolike men that had long lived with the Apostles But we must again return to our Authour and say further The Observation of the Lords day was occasioned by that Solemn Action of Christs rising again thereupon And this was occasioned by those several Orders which were in the Church under Christ viz. that in which Christ himself was that of his Apostles inferiour to him that of the seventy Disciples inferiour unquestionably to them all The mention of that under the name of the Lords day we meet with Revel 1. once in the Revelation and under the equipollent Acts 20. 7. term of the first day of the week twice or thrice 1 Cor. 16. 2. elsewhere And no whit less obscure is the mention of the Order of Bishops under a like Apocalyptical expression of the Angel of the Revel 2 3. Chapte●s Church of Ephesus c. which by undoubted proofs hath been manifested to belong to this cause and under the name of the Ruling Elder which how contrarily to it's intent of 1 Tim. 5. 17 18. late it was interpreted of Lay-Elders by those who notwithstanding they thus interpreted would not thus fulfil the Text in their own interpretation by allowing those their ruling Elders the double honour especially that which the next words thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the corn enforce a share with them in the Church-maintenance I leave to the judgement of those very expositors proceeding with my Authour to what Saint Paul saith to Timothy and Titus that he left the one at Ephesus to see that some taught no other Doctrine 1 Tim. 13. Which is manifestly to have inspection over the teaching Ministry and the other at Crete to set in Order things that were wanting and to Tit. 1. 5. Ordain Elders in every Church To all which we may adde the oftner mention of Bishops Presbyters or if we will give it a French-English word Priests and Deacons any where of the Lords day The obscure mention of the Lords day in Scripture was explained in the writings of the first age and particularly in Ignatius his Epistles In the like manner the obscurity of the Holy Text in this case was as by others so by the same Ignatius in all his Epistles and particularly in each of those six first which were of such Authority of old that Saint Jerome witnesseth they used even in his days publickly to be read in the Churches and have of late after a Fiery trial made of them received as well an ample Vindication from a famous Prelate Bishop Usher against whom the adverse