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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55769	Confirmation confirmed and recommended from Scripture, antiquity, and reason in a sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Mary in Sarum, at a solemn confirmation there administered by the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey, Lord Bishop of Sarum / by John Priaulx ...	Priaulx, John, 1614?-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing P3330; ESTC R9213	31,118	42

the gift is lost and so the Ceremony may be well left too to this purpose Mr. o Calvin Instit l. 4. c. 19. Sect. 6 7. Calvin Institut lib. 4. cap. 19. Sect. 6. in which Section and that which follows he inveighs against the Ceremony and the Administratours of it to say no worse with more intemperance then became the wisedome of so Learned a person in so grave a matter For answer whereunto we grant that it is true that in those times miraculous gifts did commonly follow the laying on of the Apostles hands but that was not all that was thereby designed nor all that was meant by the Holy Ghost nor perhaps was common to all that are said to receive him and in those that were partakers of them those gifts were commonly but the splendor and efflorescencies or as Letters testimoniall of better to be sure of greater value and benefit to the Receiver though they carried lesse pomp and shew in the worlds eye There were more purposes of the effusion of the Spirit then one and he that receives him to any of those purposes especially the chief though not in some Accidental transitory particular may be as truly said to receive him as another which hath that also Indeed as St. p Augustin Tract 6. in Epistol Iohan. Augustine speaks those were signa tempori opportuna signes very usefull for those times q August lib. 3. de baptismo contra Donatistas c. 16. neque temporalibus sensibilibus miraculis attestantibus per manus impositionem modo datur Spiritus Sanctus sicut antea dabatur ad commendationem rudis fidei Ecclesiae primordia dilatanda the Holy Spirit now given by imposition of hands is not accompanied with temporall and sensible miracles as then he was for the first establishing of the Faith and the enlargement of the Church at its beginning sed invisibiliter latenter intelligitur but yet secretly and invisibly Charity through the bond of peace as he speaks is still inspired into mens hearts so as they may say that the love of God is spread abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given us thus that holy Father Indeed as the Apostle speaks There are diversity of gifts gratiae gratis datae gifts for edification and gratiae gratum facientes graces for sanctification but the same Spirit that worketh both 1 Corin. 12.11 And these last were mainly had respect to in this donation as will appear if we consider first the promise of Christ concerning the gift it self secondly the Characters of the Receivers of it 1. John 7.38 39. The promise of Christ you have it John 7. where in the 38 verse he speaks of some eminent but inward gracious effects to be wrought upon and in the hearts of Believers for that is meant by these words Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters i. e. He shall have such an abundance of grace that it shall break forth into all manner of Christian actions and then ver 39. the Evangelist tells us that This he spake of the Spirit which they that believe in him should receive for as yet the Holy Ghost was not i. e. among them or in them in so powerfull a manner because Jesus was not yet glorified Where you see that inward grace was the main of Christs promise and that also to be fulfilled upon the descent of the Spirit See S. Peter to the same purpose Acts 2.38 Act. 2.38 where he wisheth his Hearers to repent and believe telling them they should receive the Holy Ghost he gives the reason in the next verse for saith he the promese is to you and your children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord your God shall call which words imply that the gift was to be permanent in the Church the promise being that the Holy Ghost should be given to all which at any time should be converted this could not possibly be true if meant onely of miraculous gifts which it 's plain soon after ceased 2. The Characters of those which received the Holy Ghost seeme to speak no lesse so Acts 4.31 Act. 4.31 The Character of those that were filled with the Holy Ghost is that they speak the word with boldnesse that is courage and Christian resolution i and so Acts 6.3 Wisedome Act. 6.3 5. and v. 5. Faith is made the Character of such a one as had received the Holy Ghost and so Acts 11.24 Act. 11.24 it is said of Barnabas that he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and Faith and then Christian courage Wisedome Faith and the like abide still I hope and if the Spirit be given in these the main gift is not yet ceased Hence S. t Augustin Tract 6. in Epistol Ioh. Augustine very smartly asks the question ita perverso corde aliquis vestrum Is any of you of so perverse an heart as to deny that these speaking of some on whom he had newly laid hands have received the Holy Ghost because they have not the gift of speaking with Tongues and afterwards he addes Si vis nosse quia accepisti Spiritum sanctum If thou wilt certainly know whether thou hast received the Holy Ghost Interroga cor tuum ask thy heart that will tell thee unlesse perhaps thou hast received Confirmation and not the virtue of it if thou find the love of the Brethren there thou mayest be sure thou hast received the Holy Ghost thus S. Augustine So that by the Holy Ghost not onely the gift of miracles but the internall graces of the Spirit are to be understood which being really the greater and chiefly intended in the gift of the Holy Ghost if these still continue in the Church so may the means of their conveyance too though miracles be ceased We know that Preaching at the first was attended with miraculous events and so was Excommunication which had not onely influence upon the soul or the Church-state of a man but an habeas corpus for the body too and so Faith was the great engine to work miracles in those times and we think these ought not to have vanished out of the Church with the miracles which sometimes accompanied them Yea but may some further say with him in ſ Euseb Emissenus Homil. in Pentecost Euseb●us Emissenus If this be so that Baptized persons have yet need that the Spirit be given to them quantum video non totum de fonte suscepimus si post fontem adjectione novi generis indigemus it seems we have not received all we ought at the Font if afterwards wee need a supply of another kind will not this derogate from the honour and perfection of Baptism is not the Holy Ghost then received shall wee empty the Font to fill the hands of the Bishop I answer no we doe not Baptisme we allow as perfect in its kind and as to the present condition of the Receiver and