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A43546	A sermon preached before the convocation of the clergy in Ireland at the Cathedral Church of S. Patricks in Dublin, May 9, anno 1661, at the time of their general receiving the H. Communion / by Tho. Hacket.	Hackett, Thomas, d. 1697.	1662 (1662)	Wing H173; ESTC R25047	22,156	33

his creation the agnizing his dominion over the creatures by this little tribute of the creatures as a chief rent we offer up to him to acknowledg our holding all the demesne of our life from him Thus Ireneus urges against the Hereticks Who denied that God created the World this acquittance of the Church under her hand and seal confessing the contrary by offering up daily to him the marrow of all the creatures and staffe of the world in bread and wine Use 2. But moreover the very throat of Transubstantiation seems to me to be cut from this denomination of this Sacrament by destroying the foundation or basis that supports it for if thanksgiving be the nature and almost the whole office of the Sacrament than it is not transmuted from what it was to become What it was not by any operative words of Institution t is true this is annexed to the office of the Sacrament but the whole viptue of that lyes in the Prayer or Thanksgivings of the Church that God would be pleased for his people to effect this this Ignatius sence The prayer wherein the Church and Bishop agree prevaileth to make the Sacrament the Bread of God The Eucharist denominates the whole action because the thanksgiving was that which consecrated And therefore in some Ancient Liturgies after the words of Institution read prayer is made that the Elements may be sanctified by the Holy Ghost for Liturg such and such effects of grace in the worthy Receivers Therefore that the Papists infist oil of its being cald a Sacrifice among the Ancients is hugely frivolous for they call it so before it was consecrated When barely presented or offered by the people to the Minister or by him to God Beside some of the them remember a very curt office of St. Peters consecrating the Lords Supper with the Lords Prayer but from the feast t is time to behold the guests which come in the fifth or last place and they are the Communicants charactered here by their names the Vnlearned and secondly their place The room of the Vnlearned 1. Their name The unlearned Idiots it is in the Greek which word by custom sounds but coursly toward the vulgars credit as blasphemy and the like but in the Original sence means onely the Unlearned or indeed the Laick the populacy in opposition to Ecclesiastiques we translate it the Unlearned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The wise men call the multitude or common people Idiots sayes a good Critick in the Greek tongue The Hebrewes gave them a contemptible name by Origination which yet custome mollified into a fri●●dly reception from the Commons A son of the Earth as terrae filius found civilly in our Universities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Idiot cannot have the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because practise does not do well without Theory nay they made the very name Idiot turn Jewish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is read often in the Rabbins well the name of Idiot or Unlearned is a description of the Laick and a distinction of the Minister or Prophet from him c. Use And may it be so still never could I say it more opportunely than in such a learned Assembly that this distinction may be alwayes retained between the Minister and People that they may be the Unlearned not simply but in comparison of the Minister and these obtain the title of learned in contradistinction to them It is a sad thing when the Ministers are praeceptores discipulorum the Masters of Schollars before they have been discipuli praeceptorum the Schollars of able Masters Young Physitians the old saying was had need of new Church-yards and raw Preachers of a new Hell Therefore God placed the Rational upon the High Priests brest with Urim and Thummim that there should be light and perfection in those The Jewes had but a sowresaying concerning an illiterate Priest though he were the High Priest and their lowest Priests were high enough to what our Gospel Ministers are in the account of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if a Mamzer a bastard be learned and the High Priest not he is the better man of the twain It is a vain thought of those who think it suffices him to be honest for he had need of a good skull that must knock heads with the infernal Serpent such hurt as much by their silence as they benefit by their conversation 'T were a wonder almost beyond credit to say what learning the Jewes required in any they ordeined But so did our Saviour though some are pleased to take Sanctuary under him and his blessed Apostles for their ignorance an excuse worse than the crime before he commissionated them he instructed them and therefore the Saxon Bible call them by a pat name Learning Chnitas Learning Servitours and for himself not onely all the treasures of Heavenly Wisdom were lockt up in him but he gave demonstrations of all the learned Books and Writings of his age in his Works These are feald up to the ignorant and therefore I shall point at one or two of them Mat. 5.18 Not one jot or tittle of the law shall perish 't is a perfect transcript out of the books of the Jewes c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Book of Deuteronomy ascended before God and said Solomon desired to blot Jod out of her to whom t was answered that a thousand such as Solomon should fail before her So Mat. 6.15 our Savour speaks of laying up treasures in Heaven t is a duplicate of that Talmudick saying or rather this of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mubaz answered his friends who complained that he gave too much to the poor My Ancestors said he layed up their treasure on Earth but I mine in Heaven they layed them where the hand of the thief might invade but I where the thief cannot break-through and steal Nor do I expect to be choakt with a reply that all these writings were after Christ for the sayings might be before him and so preserved by them who t is unlikely would go to filtch them out of him In short ignorance is virtually every errour and therefore let us not change names with the people to occupy the place of the Unlearned which leads me to the last head the description of the Communicants by their place Else how shall he that occupies the Room of the Vnlearned The Room may seem onely to be a paraphrase of the unlearned to unwary Readers and indeed some very learned have been imposed on by other places to misinterpret this so Buxtorf in his Rabinical Lexicon radix 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 interprets it simply the unlearned and from him Dilherus in his Eclect because the Hebrew use this expression without Emphasis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to be with his Father but it has here its energy and weight and is another distinguishing mark of

punisht with a Cherith Exod. 12.15 which the best Criticks stretch to its utmost capacity of civil spritual and eternal excision without Repentance and when in their dispersions they could not have a formal Passeover their writers tell us they upheld the memorial in a commemorative one that hindred from doing what they would they might shew their affections to it by doing what they could This Practice has kept for us the Annals of Christs Ministry St. John reckoning them by Pasches and our blessed Saviour himself traveld once that we read of 56. miles to observe one John 2.12 The Suspiria Epoptarum or breathings towards the Communion was a Proverb among the Primitives so flagrant was their zeal for it Nay the Heathens had and communicated frequently in a Sacrament much of the same species with ours with great purifications for it rejoycing in it The great wickedness and especially uncharitableness of our people calls loud for this Catholicon that feast of love to combine us together of which sin it may go for no light suspition that those breaches have been the judgment Some person it may be now might fear that from this whetting them to the Sacrament I should pass to some more minute considerations by way of preparing you for it but I am not so vain to think that you either do need that any more than I am fit to perform this Such a project might well suit the occonomy of a Country charge not a Convocation of Clergy whose duty it is habitually and whose care it was actually to possess themselves of time on purpose to secure the interest of so great a design I am like the Apostle discoursing before Prophets men of great gifts and therefore waving this I must consider that for it is the next and third circumstance that was propounded in unfolding the text The Minister or the Priest performing the mysterious celebration and he is expressed in the word thou Else when thou shalt bless Thou Now the sence of the Text like the rising morning begins to open its eyes wider on u● this is the word as in Italian locks that will help us possess the treasure for as the person is here found to be so will the whole action be denominated he will prove that to be an Eucharist and that will lend us something too to assert him a Priest But for the present so I assert him to be from 3. apparent arguments lodged fairly in the bosome of the words first of all he is opposed to the sayer of Amen here which being the duty of the people the opposite to it must be the Priest 2. The learned must confront the Idiot or unlearned in the Text and 3. His place proves him so for if the Unlearned Idiot the sayer of Amen take up all the people and possess but one place or Room in the Assembly then the vacant chair must be left for the Minister to omit the force of the context that the Apostle is speking of spiritual exercises of Prophets and of Blessing the Priests Act Supposing then this assertion redeemed from some obscurity I shall pass but this one observation upon it That in the time of dispensing extraordinary and Miraculous Gifts yet God was pleased ordinarily to make the Ministry the seat of these For of such gifts the whole chapter speaks and in such persons the text incircles those gifts the wind of the spirit is free but here it was pleased to become a trade wind and to blow commonly I say from one corner for besides what the text seems to favour this in there are two circumstances more to help conclude it First the Scripture is clear that these gifts were ordinarily distributed by imposition of hands Gods hands never coming empty And it will be as easily yielded that though laying of hands was sometime on other persons for their significations yet on no whole tribe of men else and upon all those hands were laid Secondly But the Prophets Disciples had a particular cultivation into which fallow the seed of the Spirit did ordinarily inject it self their breeding in Universities Schools was an ambush as it were laid to catch this spiritual wind Instructions and Tutorage and Prayer and a sedate Spirit lead to it which are the effects of those fraternities Thus when Saul came within the air of Ca●mel he was inspired 1 Sam. 10 1● But the wonder was who was his Father that is his Master or how he came to be so without one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Disciple is the Spiritual son of his Master and therefore I suppose Acts 3.34 The Prophets are numbred form Samuel not because he was the first Prophet but the first Provost of a prophetical Colledg under whose tutorage they became such and so might well be said the Prophets from Samuel Nay the Prophets Jeremy Haggai Zachary Malachy c. that go onely for immediate Prophets among us are by the Jewish writers enrold as members of their great Assembly and made such by Imposition of hands Vse From whence that common Argument will be much invalidated that men preach now by vertue of their gifts who are no Ministers because we do not read all were Ministers whom we find in the first age to have preacht from their gifts For if God was pleased to Center his Gifts ordinarily in the Ministry then the supposing them to have such gifts will bid somewhat fairly though not demonstrate that they were of the Ministry Besides the people are said to do many things representatively in Scripture as they do in Parliament by such Members as among them are capacitated and not that every one is fit for every thing So I conceive they try Spirits prove all things which are other popular arguments in the former plea that is by their guides whom God has enabled so to do for them The common voice of late ran that the People were the Church let that be made good when it can I am sure the Governours of the Church and Ministers do pass for the whole Church in Scripture and primitive language What God commanded Moses to tell the congregation of Israel Exod. 12.3 he report onely to the Elders vers 21. And it is to be supposed that Mases understood and disobeyed not Gods command So St. Chrys expounding that Speech of Christs Tell the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is saith he those that are the Presidents of it A number of those trivial reasonings might find their answer here but that the Topick is large and right Logick would first state the question before it determine all which I have not time for All I assert is the unconclusiveness of their Argument especially when persons shalter themselves under extraordinary gifts who have not been guilty of so much as ordinary whom as a mean Subject I shall take my leave of and think my time better spent in conversing with those of a higher illumination which