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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00327	The forme and manner of making and consecrating bishops, priestes and deacons.; Ordinal	Church of England.; Barker, Robert, d. 1645, printer.; Bill, John, d. 1630, printer.	1633 (1633)	STC 16473; ESTC S122861	19,142	27

art the very Comforter in all woe and distresse The heauenly gift of God most high which no tongue can expresse The fountaine and the liuely spring of ioy celestiall The fire so bright the loue so cleare and Vnction spirituall Thou in thy gifts art manifold whereby Christs Church doth stand In faithfull hearts writing thy Law the finger of Gods hand According to thy promise made thou giuest speech of grace That through thy helpe the praise of God may sound in euery place O holy Ghost into our wits send downe thy heauenly light Kindle our hearts with feruent loue to serue God day and night Strength and stablish all our weaknesse so feeble and so fraile That neither flesh the world nor deuill against vs doe preuaile Put backe our enemy farre from vs and grant vs to obtaine Peace in our hearts with God and man without grudge or disdaine And grant O Lord that thou being our leader and our guide We may eschew the snares of sinne and from thee neuer slide To vs such plenty of thy grace good Lord grant we thee pray That thou mayest be our Comforter at the last dreadfull day Of all strife and dissension O Lord dissolue the bands And make the knots of peace and loue throughout all Christian lands Graunt vs O Lord through thee to know the Father most of might That of his deare beloued Sonne we may attaine the sight And that with perfect faith also we may acknowledge thee The Spirit of them both alway one God in persons three Laud and praise be to the Father and to the Sonne equall And to the holy Spirit also one God coeternall And pray wee that the onely Sonne vouchsafe his Spirit to send To all that doe professe his Name vnto the worlds end Amen And then the Archdeacon shall present vnto the Bishop all them that shall receiue the order of Priesthood that day the Archdeacon saying REuerend Father in God I present vnto you these persons present to be admitted to the order of Priesthood Cum interrogatione responsione vt in ordine Diaconatus And then the Bishop shall say to the people GOod people these bee they whom wee purpose God willing to receiue this day vnto the holy office of Priesthood For after due examination we finde not to the contrary but that they be lawfully called to their function and ministery and that they bee persons meete for the same but yet if there bee any of you which knoweth any impediment or notable crime of any of them for the which hee ought not to be receiued into this holy ministerie now in the Name of God declare the same And if any great crime or impediment be obiected Vt supra in Ordine Diaconatus vsque ad finem Letaniae cum hac Collecta ALmighty God giuer of al good things which by thy holy Spirit hast appointed diuers orders of Ministers in thy Church mercifully behold these thy seruants now called to the office of Priesthood and replenish them so with the trueth of thy doctrine and innocency of life that both by word and good example they may faithfully serue thee in this office to the glory of thy Name and profit of thy Congregation through the merits of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost world without end Amen Then the Bishop shall minister vnto euery one of them the Oath concerning the Kings Supremacy as it is set forth in the order of Deacons And that done hee shall say vnto them which are appointed to receiue the said office as hereafter followeth YOu haue heard brethren as well in your priuate examination as in the exhortation and in the holy Lessons taken out of the Gospel and of the writings of the Apostles of what dignity and of how great importance this office is whereunto ye bee called And now wee exhort you in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ to haue in remembrance into how high a dignity and to how chargeable an office ye bee called that is to say the messengers the watchmen the Pastours and the Stewards of the Lord to teach to premonish to feede and prouide for the Lords family to seeke for Christs sheepe that be dispersed abroad and for his children which bee in the middest of this naughty world to bee saued through Christ for euer Haue alwayes therefore printed in your remembrance how great a treasure is committed to your charge for they be the sheepe of Christ which hee bought with his death and for whom he shed his blood The Church and Congregation whom you must serue is his spouse and his body And if it shall chance the same Church or any member therof to take any hurt or hinderance by reason of your negligence yee know the greatnesse of the fault and also of the horrible punishment which will ensue Wherefore consider with your selues the end of your ministery towards the children of God towards the spouse and body of Christ and see that you neuer cease your labour your care and diligence vntill you haue done all that lieth in you according to your bounden duty to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge vnto that agreement in faith and knowledge of God and to that ripenesse and perfectnes of age in Christ that there be no place left among you either of errour in Religion or for viciousnesse in life Then forasmuch as your office is both of so great excellencie and of so great difficultie ye see with how great care and studie ye ought to apply your selues as well that you may shew your selues kind to that Lord who hath placed you in so high a dignity as also to be ware that neither you your selues offend neither be occasion that other offend Howbeit ye cannot haue a mind and a wil therto of your selues for that power and abilitie is giuen of God alone Therfore ye see how ye ought and haue need earnestly to pray for his holy spirit And seeing that you cannot by any other meanes compasse the doing of so weighty a worke pertaining to the saluation of man but with doctrine and exhortation taken out of the holy Scriptures and with a life agreeable vnto the same Ye perceiue how studious yee ought to bee in reading and in learning the Scriptures and in framing the maners both of your selues and of them that specially pertaine vnto you according to the rule of the same Scriptures And for this selfe same cause ye see how ye ought to forsake and set aside as much as you may all worldly cares and studies Wee haue good hope that you haue well weighed and pondered these things with your selues long before this time and that you haue cleerely determined by Gods grace to giue your selues wholly to this vocation wherunto it hath pleased God to call you so that as much as lieth in you you apply your selues wholly to this one thing and draw all your cares and studies

this way and to this end And that you will continually pray for the heauenly assistance of the holy Ghost from God the Father by the mediation of our onely Mediatour and Sauiour Iesus Christ that by daily reading and weighing of the Scriptures ye may so waxe riper and stronger in your ministery And that yee may so endeauour your selues from time to time to sanctifie the liues of you and yours and to fashion them after the rule and doctrine of Christ And that ye may be wholsome and godly examples and patterns for the rest of the congregation to follow that this present congregation of Christ here assembled may also vnderstand your mindes and wils in these things and that this your promise shall more moue you to do your duties ye shall answere plainely to these things which we in the name of the congregation shall demand of you touching the same Doe you thinke in your heart that you bee truely called according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the order of this Church of England to the ministery of Priesthood Answere I thinke it The Bishop BEe you perswaded that the holy scriptures conteine sufficiently all doctrine required of necessitie for eternall saluation thorow faith in Iesu Christ And are you determined with the sayd Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge and to teach nothing as required of necessitie to eternall saluation but that you shall be perswaded may be concluded and prooued by the Scripture Answere I am so perswaded and haue so determined by Gods grace The Bishop VVIll you then giue your faithfull diligence alwayes so to minister the doctrine and Sacraments and the discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded and as this Realme hath receiued the same according to the Commandements of God so that you may teach the people committed to your cure and charge with all diligence to keepe and obserue the same Answere I will so doe by the helpe of the Lord. The Bishop VVIll you bee ready with all faithfull diligence to banish and driue away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to Gods word and to vse both publike and priuate monitions and exhortations as well to the sicke as to the whole within your cures as need shall require and occasion be giuen Answere I will the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you bee diligent in prayers and in reading of the holy Scriptures and in such studies as helpe to the knowledge of the same laying aside the study of the world and the flesh Answere I will endeauour my selfe so to doe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you bee diligent to frame and fashion your owne selues and your families according to the doctrine of Christ and to make both your selues and them as much as in you lieth wholsome examples and spectacles to the flocke of Christ Answere I will apply my selfe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you maintaine and set forwards as much as lyeth in you quietnes peace and loue among all Christian people and specially among them that are or shall bee committed to your charge Answere I will so doe the Lord being my helper The Bishop VVIll you reuerently obey your Ordinarie and other chiefe Ministers vnto whom the gouernment and charge is committed ouer you following with a glad minde and will their godly admonitions and submitting your selues to their godly iudgements Answere I will so doe the Lord being my helper Then shall the Bishop say ALmighty God who hath giuen you this will to doe all these things grant also vnto you strength and power to performe the same that he may accomplish his worke which hee hath begun in you vntill the time hee shall come at the latter day to iudge the quicke and the dead After this the Congregation shall bee desired secretly in their prayers to make humble supplications to God for the aforesaid things for the which prayers there shall be a certaine space kept in silence That done the Bishop shall pray in this wise ¶ Let vs pray ALmighty God and heauenly Father which of thine infinite loue and goodnesse towards vs hast giuen to vs thy only most deare beloued Son Iesus Christ to be our redeemer author of euerlasting life who after he had made perfect our redemption by his death was ascended into heauen sent abroad into the world his Apostles Prophets Euangelists Doctours and Pastours by whose labour and ministery hee gathered together a great flocke in all the parts of the world to set forth the eternall praise of thy holy Name For these so great benefits of thy eternall goodnesse and for that thou hast vouchsafed to call these thy seruants here present to the same office and ministerie of saluation of mankinde wee render vnto thee most hearty thanks we worship and praise thee and wee humbly beseech thee by the same thy Sonne to grant vnto vs all which either here or elsewhere call vpon thy Name that wee may shew our selues thankfull to thee for these and all other thy benefits that we may daily encrease and goe forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Sonne by the holy Spirit So that as well by these thy Ministers as by them to whom they shall be appointed Ministers thy holy Name may be alwayes glorified and thy blessed kingdome enlarged through the same thy Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ which liueth and reigneth with thee in the vnitie of the same holy Spirit world without end Amen When this prayer is done the Bishop with the Priests present shal lay their hands seuerally vpon the head of euery one that receiueth Orders The Receiuers humbly kneeling vpon their knees and the Bishop saying REceiue the holy Ghost whose sinnes thou doest forgiue they are forgiuen and whose sinnes thou doest reteine they are reteined and be thou a faithfull dispenser of the word of God and of his holy Sacraments In the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen The Bishop shall deliuer to euery one of them the Bible in his hand saying TAke thou authority to preach the word of God and to minister the holy Sacraments in this Congregation where thou shalt be so appointed When this is done the Congregation shall sing the Creed and also they shall goe to the Communion which all they that receiue Orders shall take together and remaine in the same place where the hands were layed vpon them vntill such time as they haue receiued the Communion The Communion being done after the last collect and immediatly before the Benediction shall be said this Collect. MOst merciful Father we beseech thee so to send vpon these thy seruants thy heauenly blessing that they may bee clad about with all iustice and that thy word spoken by their mouthes may haue such successe that it may neuer be spoken in vaine Grant also that we may haue grace to heare and receiue the same as thy most

And they chose Stephen a man full of faith and full of the holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Permenas and Nicholas a conuert of Antioch These they set before the Apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them And the word of God increased and the number of the Disciples multiplied in Ierusalem greatly and a great company of the Priests were obedient vnto the faith And before the Gospel the Bishop sitting in a chaire shall cause the Oath of the Kings supremacie and against the power and authority of all forreigne Potentates to bee ministred vnto euery of them that are to be ordered ❧ The Oath of the Kings Soueraignetie I A. B. doe vtterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the Kings Highnesse is the onely supreme Gouernour of this Realme of all other his Highnes Dominions and Countries as well in all spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporall and that no forraigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to haue any iurisdiction power superiority preeminence or authority Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme and therefore I doe vtterly renounce and forsake all forreigne Iurisdictions Powers Superiorities and authorities and doe promise that from henceforth I shall beare faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successours and to my power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Priuiledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highnes his Heires and Successours or vnited and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme so helpe me God and the Contents of this Booke Then shall the Bishop examine euery one of them that are to bee ordered in the presence of the people after this manner following DOe you trust that you are inwardly moued by the holy Ghost to take vpon you this office and ministration to serue God for the promoting of his glory and the edifying of his people Answere I trust so The Bishop Doe you thinke that yee truly bee called according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the due order of this Realme to the Ministery of the Church Answere I thinke so The Bishop Doe you vnfainedly beleeue all the Canonicall Scriptures of the old and new Testament Answere I doe beleeue The Bishop VVIll you diligently reade the same vnto the people assembled in the Church where you shall be appointed to serue Answere I will The Bishop IT appertaineth to the office of a Deacon in the Church where he shall be appointed to assist the Priest in diuine Seruice and specially when he ministreth the holy Communion and to helpe him in distribution therof and to reade holy Scriptures and Homilies in the Congregation and to instruct the youth in the Catechisme to Baptize and to Preach if he be admitted thereto by the Bishop And furthermore it is his office where prouision is so made to search said vnto him Feed my sheepe Hee said vnto him the third time Simon Iohanna louest thou me Peter was sorry because he said vnto him the third time Louest thou me And hee said vnto him Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I loue thee Iesus said vnto him Feed my sheepe Or else out of the tenth Chapter of Iohn as before in the order of Priests After the Gospel and Creed ended first the elected Bishop shall be presented by two Bishops vnto the Archbishop of that Prouince or to some other Bishop appointed by his commission the Bishops that present him saying MOst reuerend Father in God we present vnto you this godly and well learned man to be consecrated Bishop Then shall the Archbishop demand the Kings mandate for the consecration and cause it to be read and the Oath touching the knowledge of the Kings Supremacie shall be ministred to the persons elected as it is set out in the order of Deacons And then shall be ministred the Oath of due obedience vnto the Archbishop as followeth The Oath of due obedience to the Archbishop IN the Name of God Amen I. N. chosen Bishop of the Church and See of N. doe professe and promise all due reuerence and obedience to the Archbishop and to the Metropoliticall Church of N. and to their successors so helpe me God through Iesus Christ This Oath shall not be made at the Consecration of an Archbishop Then the Archbishop shall mooue the Congregation present to pray saying thus to them BRethren it is written in the Gospel of S. Luke that our Sauiour Christ continued the whole night in prayer or euer that he did chuse and send forth his twelue Apostles It is written also in the Acts of the Apostles that the Disciples which were at Antioch did fast and pray or euer they laid hands vpon or sent forth Paul and Barnabas Let vs therefore following the example of our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles first fall to prayer or that we admit and send forth this person presented vnto vs to the worke whereunto we trust the holy Ghost hath called him And then shall be said the Letanie as afore in the order of Deacons And after this place That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops c. he shall say That it may please thee to blesse this our brother elected and to send thy grace vpon him that hee may duely execute the office whereunto hee is called to the edifying of thy Church and to the honour praise and glory of thy Name Answere We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. Concluding the Letanie in the end with this prayer ALmighty God giuer of all good things which by thy holy spirit hast appointed diuers orders of Ministers in thy Church mercifully behold this thy seruant now called to the worke and ministery of a Bishop and replenish him so with the truth of thy doctrine and innocencie of life that both by word and deed he may faithfully serue thee in this office to the glory of thy Name and profit of thy congregation through the merits of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost world without end Amen Then the Archbishop sitting in a chaire shall say to him that is to bee consecrated BRother for as much as holy Scripture and the old Canons commandeth that we should not be hasty in laying on hands and admitting of any person to the gouernement of the Congregation of Christ which he hath purchased with no lesse price then the effusion of his owne blood afore I admit you to this administration whereunto you are called I will examine you in certaine articles to the end the Congregation present may haue a tryall and beare witnes how ye be minded to behaue your selfe in the Church of God Are you perswaded that you bee truly called to this ministration according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the order of this Realme Answere I am so perswaded The Archbishop ARe you perswaded that the holy Scriptures