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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44542	A sermon preached at Fulham in the Chappel of the Palace, upon Easter-day, MDCLXXXIX, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2850; ESTC R8309	15,421	39

of God's Glory it sanctifies the Temper and speaks it to be derived from the Holy Ghost 2. The Spirit of Love. It was not without very great Reason that our Saviour ask'd St. Peter thrice Lovest thou me and Lovest thou me more than these We may very rationally infer that in saying so he shew'd what manner of Spirit those should be of who were to be Pastors and Teachers and Overseers in the House of God. Nothing renders them more amiable to God and Man than this Spirit of Love Love to the Lord Jesus Love to God's Glory Love to the Souls of Men Love which makes them willing to spend and to be spent even to die for the Name of the Lord Jesus It is the mark of Christ's Disciples in general and therefore must be so more eminently of those who are to go before the Sheep and lead them to green Pastures From this Love have proceeded the almost incredible Pains that holy Men of God have taken for the Conversion of Souls whereof Ecclesiastical History gives us very considerable Instances 3. The Spirit of a sound Mind This seems to be a Temper able to curb the Passions Inordinate Lusts Desires and Perturbations of the Mind an admirable Spirit To know when to be angry and when to be calm when to be severe and when to be moderate and gentle when to use the Rod and when to use the Staff to have the Brutish Part in subjection to the Rational the Body to the Soul the Flesh to Spirit this is Wisdom beyond all Worldly Policy whatsoever Plato makes this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or soundness of Mind the opposite of Madness Indeed indulging our Passions and letting loose the Reins of our carnal and sensual Affections is no better for it 's an Argument that Reason is dethroned and the ruling part of the Soul is become subject to the ignobler Principality and surely this is Madness The Mind is then sound when it keeps the lower Faculties in good order and it is an Argument of Wisdom to judg of things without Heats or Prejudice or prospect of self-Interest and to keep the wild Desires of corrupted Nature in awe and to do things with Prudence and Moderation This is the Gift here aim'd at a Gift very necessary for the discharge of so great so weighty an Employ as is intimated in the Text a Gift which not only Timothy was partaker of but which as I said may justly be supposed to be in all and to be given in some degree or other to those whom God calls to the same Office. For if this Spirit was bestow'd on Timothy upon the account of his Office and God intends that Office should continue to the World's end we may justly conclude that he will not deny the same Gift now to those whom he calls to the same Office. He that conferr'd another Heart and another Spirit upon Saul when he call'd him to be King over his People Israel can we think he 'll deny so useful so necessary a Gift to the Rulers of his Church who have his Call his Summons his Vocation I say his Call for no Man takes that Honour unto himself but he that is called as also was Aaron Those who call themselves whom either Ambition or Interest or a worldly sensual Mind or fondness of being great and to be called of Men Rabbi puts upon thrusting themselves into this sacred Office are call'd indeed but it is by that Spirit whose Name is Legion not by him who gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ Ephes. iv 11 This Call of God which our Church accounts requisite and necessary upon such occasions is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bath Kol no Daughter of the Voice no audible Sound or Language dropp'd from Heaven as it was Act. xiii 2 Separate me Paul and Barnabas no sudden Passion or warm Fancy no violent Impulse which Melancholy causes or a turbulent Temper doth infuse but it appears by proper Parts and Abilities by Learning suitable to the Office by being skilful in the Word of Truth by a secret sense of the weight and importance of the Calling by Christian Wisdom and Prudence by a vehement desire to do good to win Souls to gain Proselytes to Righteousness and to advance the Glory of Christ's Kingdom by unfeigned love to good Men and being enamour'd with those Christian Vertues and Perfections without which that Name is only assumed and usurp'd and a Man is dead while he lives Those who are thus qualified have not only one but all or most of these Characters and carry this whole Constellation in the Heaven of their Souls are and may truly be said to be called to this Office by him who tells the number of the Stars for these are such even Stars in Christ's Right-hand and calls them all by their Names And on such Men we may expect the Spirit and the Gift of the Text will descend when an external Call invites them to put their Shoulders under the Burthen and as the Spirit came on Elisha●… when the Minstrel plaid so such Men having this Harmony in their Souls may look for the illapse of this Spirit especially when seconded with the external Musick of Veni Creator Spiritus When St. Paul 1 Tim. iii. 1 speaks of a Person who desires the Office of a Bishop and then subjoyns the Accomplishments of the Man who desires it he doth in effect require this internal Call and setting down the particular marks of it the design without all peradventure is to shew that he who thinks to enter into that Station must enquire of himself whether those Ingredients are found in him He ●hat finds them not and yet boasts of a Divine Vocation may indeed deceive and blind the Eyes of Men who can see no farther than the outside of the Cup and Platter but surely cannot impose upon a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an all-seeing Eye which doth not only see the Unsoundness of the Heart and want of the Wedding Garment but will revenge it too in that day when he shall judg the Secrets of Mens Hearts by his Gospel The Holy Gho●… loves a cleanly Habitation the Terms and Epithethes by which that Gift is sometimes expressed in Scripture Fire and Water import so much It is another Spirit that enters into the Swine The Holy Spirit of Discipline as it is said Wisd. i. 5 will flee deceit and remove from Thoughts that are without Understanding and will not abide when Unrighteousness comes in But though a Person thus qualified for Timothy's Office and the sacred Function may be thereby disposed for the receiving of the Holy Ghost the Spirit of Power of Love and of a sound Mind or a greater portion of it if he had something of it before yet it seems this Gift is not actually bestowed except Persons of the same