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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

The Juridical power is in the Presbytery to judge of and examine those who are to preach the Word of God that so false Teachers and Unworthy men might be kept from creeping into the Church of Christ For wicked men such as are meerly natural and prophane or hypocrites in heart would never consent to the call of a holy Minister of Jesus Christ And besides these are not capable in their choice to judge of such but may either out of prejudice or ignorance or out of a prophane heart deny consent to his Ministery whom God hath called and said Separate me such a one to the work whereunto I have called him For my part I cannot be perswaded or satisfied in this one thing that ever any one not called by the Church and that is out of office and orders and intrudes upon this holy calling should ever convert souls or bring any to heaven Dissenting judgements there are of some of our Brethren about this Separate me even concerning the form of this Separation and Ordination But I intend not to wade into this business or meddle with this Controversie Our practise is approved and sufficiently cleared to the satisfaction I hope of all here or of the most that desire unity and order in the Church of Christ and therefore I shall leave it with this one additional requisite belonging to it which is Probation 1 Tim. 3.10 Hiprobentur let them first be proved And this hath been our form of proceeding in setting apart and separating those whom hitherto we have laid our hands on and sent forth to the work whereunto they have been called and that both of their abilities and deportments And the rather For as a wise Master of a Family will not commit matters of moment to any one Servant till he hath first made proof of his ability to do it and also of his faithfulness in doing it Multo magis necessarium est eos probari quibus comittenda est cura sanctae Congregationis Hiperius Much more fit is it that those be tryed and proved to whom is committed the care of souls in the Church of Christ A word of the fourth Term which is the form of this outward call by Separation And when they had prayed Prayer is a duty for all undertakings of Christians especially in an undertaking of that nature and high concernment as this in my Text and as we are this day come about 2. By fasting This was a duty for extraordinary undertakings and more than ordinary occasions such as this is we are now about 3. By Imposition of hands which contains the species of their Consecration In conferring of holy Orders a double posture hath anciently been observed First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Imposition of hands in token of Consecration Acts 8.17 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holding up of hands in sign of confirmation Acts 14.23 And in this Ceremony is held forth the offering of them up to God for the work whereunto the Holy Ghost hath called them And this outward call though it be not of men yet it is by men and necessary to so holy a function And all such as come not in by this door are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 new illuminates lately dropt out of heaven that yesterday were but Dolts and Dunces but to day are Doctors and Divines Yesterday with Saul were seeking their fathers Asses and to day are gotten among the Prophets 1 Sam. 10.16 like the Nightingale Vox preterea nihil a voyce and nothing else or like the Camelion all lungs and no heart All their learning is by Revelation they pray and preach and all by the Spirit whereas all are but the visions of their own hearts the fancies of distempered spirits and meer chymera's of sin-sick brains which they rather feign than know and foolish unstable souls rather follow than believe or trust But those called of God and by men are such as know God and themselves who have a feeling of that spirit who teacheth them to know God and God to know them and them to know themselves Of these the holy Ghost hath said to us Separate me these men for the work whereunto I have called them I have now done with the Doctrinal part of my Thesis and shall fall upon the Applicatory part and be brief in it I hava a threefold Errand from Christ to all here this day suitable to your threefold Stations Relations Places and Persons My first Errand is to you my Reverend Brethren and my self who have this Command in my Text enjoyned us To separate these our Brethren for the work whereunto they are called My second Errand is my Brethren to you who are this day to be Separated from other persons and imployments to this weighty work And my third Errand is to all of you Christian Auditors and Spectators to this Religious crowd and throng who are this day Spectators to behold and Auditors to hear how this work is performed both by them and us In all of which I hope you will be both Approbationers to approve it and Petitioners with us to the Throne of grace and help us by your prayers for a blessing on them And pray all your Amens unto it Reverend Brethren My first Errand and Word I have from Christ is to you and to my self All the excuse I shall now plead is I must be faithful to my Lord and Master Jesus Christ 1 Cor 4 2. You have called me forth to this work therefore give me leave to be plain and impartial in delivering the minde of Christ to us in this weighty business My first word to you and to my self is onely that which this Apostle gave to his beloved Timothy 1 Tim. 5.22 A charge that he gave him to keep himself pure and to lay hands suddenly on no man lest he be partaker of other mens sins To prevent this evil two things are required of us before admission of any to this weighty work 1. Circumspection 2. Sincere Affections First Circumspection That such onely be admitted as are in some measure fraught and furnisht with the sufficiencies of both men the inward and the outward man clad and cloathed with the indowments and perfections both of nature and grace Secondly Sincere affections That we be not transported with by-respects either of profit or of partiality If we neglect either of these we may make our selves partakers of other mens sins of the sins of others And that 1. By consenting to such 2. Or By concealing of such 3. Or By contriving for such 4. Or By commending of such to the work of the Lord who are not called of God to this work by his Spirit to this Ministerial Function I Remember a passage of Erasmas who stories of the Bishop of Utretcht who was son to the good Duke of Burgundie who had at one time three hundred who came to him for holy Orders He was resolved he would examine them himself and made tryal of their