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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86600	Clavis exousiasichē [sic]: The key of ordination. Or, Missio potestativa. Oichonomichē: ministerial power: or, Authoritative separation of men to the work of Christ, a ministerial privilege.A sermon preached at the ordination of Mr. Thomas Porter Master of Arts, Mr. John Wilson, Mr. David Jenks, Mr. George Burraston, and Mr. Tho: Soley, at Whitchurch in the county of Salop. / By Aylmer Houghton, minister of the word at Prees in the said county.	Houghton, Aylmer.	1656 (1656)	Wing H2918; Thomason E1665_3; ESTC R208387	22,964	62

CLAVIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE KEY of ORDINATION OR MISSIO POTEST ATIVA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MINISTERIAL POWER OR Authoritative Separation of men to the work of Christ a Ministerial privilege A SERMON PREACHED At the Ordination of Mr. Thomas Porter Master of Arts Mr. John Wilson Mr. David Jenks Mr. George Burraston and Mr. Tho Soley at Whitchurch in the County of Salop. By Aylmor Houghton Minister of the Word at Prees in the said County Rom. 10.15 How can they preach till they be sent John 10.1 He that comes not in by the door the same is a thief and a robber Mat. 9.38 Pray the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest Festus Hominus Disp 30. Thes 6. Potestas Ecclesiastica circa bonum spiritual eversatur cujus officium est verbum Dei predicate Sacramenta administrate disciplinam ecclesiasticam exercere ministros Ecclesiae ordinare c. London printed by R.I. for Tho Parkhurst over against the Great Conduit in Cheapside 1656. To my Reverend brethren Thomas Porter Andrew Parsons William Gower Tho Wright John Malden Rob. Bemy all of you Masters of Arts my Brethren of the Classis of Bradford-North in the County of Salop. Aylmar Houghton prays that grace peace and spiritual prosperity may be multiplyed unto you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father by the Holy Ghost That ye may be abundantly abounding in the work of the Lord that it may prosper and be successful to your own spiritual advantage and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Reverend Brethren THese meditations acknowledge themselves yours as drawn from your command and call They were commanded to your ears and now are commended to your eyes I beseech you receive them as your own again although not such as you deserve or as I could desire yet such as I am able to bestow I am conscious of my own insufficiencies but withal of your candid ingenuities especially to them who love the truth of Christ insincerity I throw this childe of old age into the arms of your pious Patronage I beseech you let it finde a room in your hearts and a word from your lips either to defend it or at least to excuse it from the murmurings of any Momus or the cavils of any Critick that may check or chide it or with black-mouthes blame it in your hearing And this I beseech for his sake that doth promise what I am or may be Christ strengthning me shal be Gods yours his people There are very many daily sending in their presents to the Church of Christ of their profitable labors I thought it not amiss to send in my mite into this Treasury as a testimony of my equal desire which in Gods account goes for current coyn and is accepted And I hope shall finde favor with some although it may be contemned by others But if it may at all or in the least measure bring any glory unto God or good to the Church of Christ I have my end and aim it is all I look for and it is abundantly enough For which purpose I send it unto you my reverend Brethren with prayers for to accompany it and follow it humbly requesting that I may have a portion in your assidual prayers for him who will retaliate them with heart-panting petitions to the throne of Grace that yours and mine and all the labors and layings out of the Ministers of Jesus Christ may prosper in the hearts of our people which is and shall be the constant prayer of Your weak unworthy Brother Prees from my study March 26. 1656. Aylmor Houghton CLAVIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE KEY of ORDINATION Acts 13.2 3. As they ministred to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away Acts 20.1 MEn Brethren and Fathers the words of my Text spare me the labor to acquaint you with the business we are this day come about They speak for me and tell you it is to separate these our brethren for the work whereunto the holy Ghost hath called them And therefore according to the Rule of the Holy Ghost held forth in my Text when we have spent some time in prayer and fasting to seek God for a blessing on them we shall lay our hands on them and send them forth to the work whereunto they are called The words agree in themselves I desire that no busie-body may be here this day to make a breach about them for as face answers face so doth my Text like a loving Master commanding and faithful Servants obeying so runs my Text this day before you First The Holy Ghost commanding a duty The Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them Secondly Here is obedience returned by those commanded And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away I shall speak the most I have to say to the first of these which is to the Command The Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul to the work whereunto I have called them I shall refer the most of the second branch of my Text which is the obedience returned to this Command to the eyes and ears of all this day here present to be fulfilled before you by us who are at this time appointed to this Office to separate these our Brethren for the work whereunto they are called by prayer and fasting and laying on of our hands and so shall send them forth to the work whereunto they are called 1. In the Command we have the person commanding The Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul 2. The persons commanded those that were then ministring to the Lord Prophets and Teachers a Colledge of Preaching-Pastors 3. The duty commanded Separate 4. The persons to be separated Barnabas and Saul 5. The business they were to be separated for and that was to work 6. The work what it was for which they were to be separated and that is the work whereunto the Holy Ghost had called them 7. The time when this Command was given and that was when as they were ministring to the Lord. These are the parts my Text falls into Here is both the tree and the branches that issue and grow from it I shall not take up much time in explicating the sense of the words but sum them up in a breif Paraphrase according to the several readings both of Ancient and Modern Writers such onely as I have traced on this Text and as they and my self understand the meaning of the Holy Ghost in them As they ministred to the Lord. Calvin Erasmus and others understand here nihil aliud quam fuisse in actione publica that they were in some publike

wisdome to rule their judgements in this business as to seek God in behalf of those called and to bee set apart that the Lord would give them spirits suitable to their work and blesse their labours and make them effectuall for his own glory and the spiritual advantage of his Church and people They laid their hands on them that is for a sign of consecration and of a blessing Diodvte This was an ancient Ceremony in the Church of Christ when any were separated to this work And it contains the species of their consecration and so ye have it Act. 6.6 This Ceremony hath been continued from the manner of their consecration in the time of the law and retained by the Apostles and still of use in the Church of Christ as a decent Ceremony holding forth the offering of such to God for the work whereunto the Holy Ghost hath called them It is observed by Calvin and Erasmus and some others that prayers were fix'd to this Ceremony Quia per se inanis esset Ceremonia because the Ceremony in it self was ineffectuall and it referred to the Apostles and nor to the people But when they had prayed and laid their hands on them Tunc alii sua vota addiderunt Then did others that were present help by their prayers and devotions In a word it is agreed by the best soundest both of the Fathers and modern writers yea by Calvin and Grosius who though they may seem to dissent in other circumstances yet in this agree with us that it is a decent rite which although it hath no efficacy in it self Sed vim et effectum a solo Dei spiritu pendere that the power and efficacy do wholly depend upon God by his spirit in blessing it yet is approved of God and is commendable in the Church of Christ Erasmus and some others with him glosse thus upon this text That they were earnest with God by prayer and fasting to turn the office of these men which they took upon them to his own glory and the Churches good And that those who were present and the most eminent among them laid their hands on them and so sent them away And hee exacts this Ceremony of laying on of hands as taken from the practise of Christ himself who was wont to lay his hands on them he blessed So Gods Ministers following the example of their Lord and Master Jesus Christ in this duty have their warrants from him And Erasmus seeks to remove an objection then made and still made by some against this Ceremony Some object and say what needs such Rites to the sending forth of Ministers to the work of Christ Hee answers it is very requisite for it is a putting them into Authority And this Authority is meet for them that all others might the rather obey the Ministery as fellow labourers with other of Gods ministers in the work of Christ whereunto they are called And thus you have a brief summary of the sense and meaning of the words The Holy Ghost said separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them This is the main errand of the Holy Ghost this day to my Reverend Brethren and my self And of my self at this present to this reverend and religious assembly Which I shall make out in as compendious tearms as the fulness of the matter will give me leave I presume I shall this day finde in this throng and multitude piety seasoned with prudence pitty attended with patience and parts without partiality I am worthlesse weak and wanting I therefore pray your patient attentions your prudent intentions and your practical improvements of the errand I shall bring from Christ unto you This is all I beg of you but your heart-prayer with mee and for me unto God that I may both begin and conclude this work in the strength of Jesus Christ and so I come unto it I shall gather up all I have to hold forth from the words of my Text to this one doctrinal Thesis That whom God calls to the weighty work of the Ministery must be separated by an outward call from other persons and imployments by prayer and fasting and laying on of hands and so sent forth to the work they are called unto Or Thus. That it is the ordinary way of God in sending forth workmen to his work to give them an outward call unto it by a ministerial power of those who are authorised unto it Or Thus. That the call of God and of his servants are not to bee separated in sending forth of Ministers to the work of Christ they are called unto Act. 6.6 And they set them before them and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them 2 Tim. 2.2 Haec commenda fidelibus hominibus qui idonei sunt et alios docere These things commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others Who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apt to teach others Heb. 5.1 Every high Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God And the rather First Because those who shall go without this separate mee without a call goes without his errand and without his Commission and climbes in at the window And such as creep in by such a way come not with an errand from Christ Et qui ingreditur per fenestras ejicietur è foribus such as climb in at the window shal bee thrown out at the door And this day it is in fulfilling God only crowns the approbation of the Churches call with success 1 Cor. 9.2 Secondly The rather because those who runne before they bee sent in matters of this ministerial concernment they are usurpers of that calling which is no less desperate than dangerous as in civil affaires and matters of state if any one should usurp and take upon him the office of an Ambassador without a call or Commission it were death for any so to do much more in this for such intruders upon divine ordinances orders and offices without this separate me without a call may justly meet with his Quomodo huc introisti friend how camest thou in hither without a call The rather Thirdly Because such as rashly and rudely venture upon ministerial imployments and improvements without this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without this separation and a call from God and his servants without this divine ordination and institution do but rifle the ark or at best too busily pry into it and may justly meet with Vzzah his sad doom who did but touch the Ark to keep it from falling to a good intent yet because hee had no call from God to that service was smitten with sudden death 2 Sam. 6.6 To meddle with these Arcana religionis these secrets of Religion is not a work for every one to deal with Alas the best and most able may cry out with the Apostle who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. 2.16 Ah dear Christians I could desire with the