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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50844	A short defence of the orders of the Church of England, as by law establish'd, against some scatter'd objections of Mr. Webster of Linne by a presbyter of the diocess of Norwich.	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1688 (1688)	Wing M2038; ESTC R15534	26,123	38

in particular was ordain'd Vide Registrum Cantuar ad calcem operum Bramhalli Ep. Armach ex Autographo publicatum were these Take the Holy Ghost and remember that Thou stir up the Grace of God which is in thee by Imposition of hands for God hath not given us the Spirit of Fear but of Power and Love and Soberness If now an Imitation of the Apostles be valid nothing can come nearer to what Scripture tell us of them than those words in the Consecration of a Bishop Nor any thing more agreeable to the Pattern of our Lord in the Commission he gave his Disciples than those us'd in the Consecration of a Priest And where so publick an Advertisement is given to the Congregation of what Office those Consecrated are appointed to tho words to the same purpose may be repeated again as in our later Books of Ordination tho they may serve to illustrate the matter in hand more fully yet there can be no such necessity of them as that the want of them should invalidate the whole Ordinance And as we have no Account in Antiquity of any particular form of words appointed by our Saviour for the conferring of Orders so we are assur'd that according to the most Antient Methods and Ordinals of the Church of Rome it self it 's not the Words but the Imposition of hands that 's essential to Ordination Besides If the Church of Rome in the Collation of Orders according to their latest Pontificals do no more than we do it must seem very unreasonable to condemn us as Defective What they do then in the Ordination of Priests which I shall only Instance in at present is this The Arch-deacon presents those to be Ordain'd to the Bishop with these words Most Reverend Father our Holy Mother the Catholick Church requires that You ordain these Deacons here present to the Burthen of Priesthood Archdiaconus praesentat Ordinandos Pontifici dicens Reverendissime Pater postulat sancta mater Ecclesia Catholica ut hos praesentes Diaconos ad onus Presbyterii ordinetis Quorum meritis Archdiacono testimonium exhibento Pontifex annunciat Clero populo dicens Quoniam fratres Charissimi c. postea Horum siquidem Diaconorum in Presbyteros ordinandorum auxiliante Domino c. Post haec surgunt omnes ordinandis coram Pontifice binis binis successive genu flectionibus Pontifex stans ante Faldistorium suum cum Mitra nullâ oratione nulloque cantu premissis imponit simul utramque manum super caput cujuslibet ordinandi successivè nihil dicens idemque faciunt post eum omnes Sacerdotes qui adsunt Quo facto tam Pontifex quàm Sacerdotes tenent manus dexteras extensas super illos Pontifex stans dicit Oremus fratres Charissimi c. postea precatur Exaudi nos quaesumus Domine Deus noster c. Ut super hos famulos suos quos ad Presbyterii manus elegit coelestia dona multiplicet c. Tum Pontifex claudit inungit manus cuilibet successive quas sic consecratas aliquis Ministrorum Pontificis albo panniculo lineo simul viz. dextram super sinistram alligat Omnium manibus unctis consecratis Pontifex tradit cuilibet successive calicem cum vino aquá Patenam superpositam cum Hostiá ipsi illam accipiunt inter indices medios Digitos Cappam Calicis patenam simul tangunt Pontifice singulis dicente Accipe Potestatem c. Quo finito Pontifex cum Mitrâ sedens super Faldistorium ante medium altaris imponit ambas manus super capita singulorum coram eo genu flectentium dicens cuilibet Accipe Spiritum Sanctum quorum remiseris peccata remittuntur quorum retinueris retenta sunt Pontif. Rom. in Ordin Presb. after the Arch-deacons attestation to their Merits the Bishop at large declares to the People his design to promote those Deacons so presented to the Office of Priesthood requiring their testimony to their Conversation c. Then having given an Exhortation to the Persons to be Ordain'd when it 's done all stand up and those design'd for Ordination kneel down successively by two and two before the Bishop The Bishop standing before his Faldstool with his Mitre on without any Prayer or Anthem premised puts both his hands successively upon the head of every one not speaking a word After him all the Priests who are present do the same which being done the Bishop and Priests together lay hands on them and the Bishop standing exhorts the people to pray to God to send his manifold gifts upon those whom he has now call'd to the Priestly Office which very expression intimates the Sacerdotal Character already imprinted and the Prayer to that purpose follows After several other Ceremonies and Prayers the Bishop having anointed their hands and one of his Attendants having ty'd them together with a Linnen Fillet he reaches out to them the Chalice with some Wine and Water in it and the Patten with an Hoast upon it which they take between their fore and middle fingers touching the Bolle of the Chalice and Patten at the same time when the Bishop uses those words Receive thou power c. And here Mass being celebrated the Ordain'd Communicate but only in one kind and standing before the Altar make a Confession of their Faith in the words of the Apostles Creed which when they have done the Bishop sitting upon his Faldstool with his Mitre on before the middle of the Altar and they kneeling down before him he puts his hands upon every one of their heads saying to every one distinctly Receive the Holy Ghost whose sins c. These are the most considerable Circumstances in ordaining a Priest of the Church of Rome in all which if Imposition of Hands only Impress the Sacerdotal Character and the touching of the Vessels be only Novel and Adventitious then it plainly follows That the Bishops of that Church in giving Holy Orders do no more declare what particular Office that Imposition of hands relates to than the Church of England in her eldest Rituals since the Reformation But if we examine things farther we shall find them much more defective for whereas by the Roman Rubrick the Bishop lays hands on the Ordain'd three several times and the first time uses no words at all it 's the conclusion of the formerly-cited Merbesius and he pretends to good company in it that That first Imposition of Hands that 's in silence confers the Priestly Character which he proves by 1 Tim. 4.14 Stir up the Gift which is in thee and which was given thee by Prophesie and by the Laying on of the hands of the Presbytery where the Apostle resolves Orders into that particular Action Then telling us how general his Opinion is he concludes Therefore it 's the first Imposition of Hands by which they are made Priests Ista igitur prima Manuum Impositio ea est per