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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33210	A discourse concerning the pretended Sacrament of extreme unction with an account of the occasions and beginnings of it in the Western church : in three parts : with a letter to the vindicator of the Bishop of Condom.	Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1687 (1687)	Wing C4383; ESTC R10964	96,073	154

I go unto my Father But this is a Notion so generally understood that I need not insist upon it Now if the Prayer of Faith was made for the Recovery of the Sick Man it stands to Reason that his being Anointed with Oil should refer to the same matter For the Apostle lays down this Motive to the use of Prayer and Vnction that the Prayer of Faith shall save the Sick And thus these Passages go easily and consonantly together Whereas if the Extreme Vnction of the Church of Rome be supposed in this place the whole must run after this manner Is any Man sick let him send for the Elders of the Church and let them administer to him the Sacrament and Office of Extreme Vnction to prepare his Soul for its departure out of this Life For if they know by the Spirit that the Gift of Healing is now to be exercised and do thereupon pray for his Recovery he shall not depart out of this Life but the Lord will raise him up And who does not see that at this rate the Passages of the Text are not only incoherent but inconsistent with one another And now it is easy from hence to answer one of Bellarmin's principal Objections against our Sense of this place † Bellar. de Extr. Unct. c. iii. §. Quarto Oran c. This Promise says he The Prayer of Faith shall save the Sick c. is absolute and therefore its principal relation cannot be to the Health of the Body For the Sick who were anointed as St. James prescribes were either always healed or not always If always then none had died in the Days of the Apostles but some very few who neglected St. James his Rule Moreover Bodily Health being not always profitable to the Soul is not always obtained from God tho it be prayed for by one that has the Gift of Healing They therefore that were anointed were not always healed so that either that absolute Promise of St. James is false which cannot be or which is most true it is principally and absolutely to be referred to the Soul We are agreed then that the Promise upon Vnction and the Prayer of Faith is absolute but the Cardinal will not have Bodily Health to be the thing promised for then none had died but those few that neglected to procure Unction Now one would think that this Objection were every whit as strong against making the promised effect of Unction to be the Health of the Soul For thus it would be impossible for any to be Damn'd but those few that neglected to be Anointed which is very comfortable Doctrine indeed to some People but so false withal that I believe our Adversaries themselves would be ashamed to defend it openly But there is no such Inconvenience belonging to our Interpretation of this place as the Cardinal pretends I grant that all they were healed who were anointed as St. James prescribes but that very few must therefore have dyed in those Days does by no means follow unless that be supposed also which can never be proved viz. That the Presbyters without making any difference were to anoint all the Sick in those Days But that they did not anoint all seems very evident from this that the Unction was to go along with the Prayer of Faith But the Prayer of Faith was not offered for All and therefore neither were All anointed For I have already shewn that by the Prayer of Faith in that place we are to understand asking a Miracle in the Name of Christ by the direction of the Spirit and therefore such Prayer was not offered for All indifferently but for those only whom it pleased God so to restore to their Health The Cardinal says most truly That Bodily Health being not always profitable to the Soul was not always obtained from God But it was rashly done to add though it was prayed for by one that had the Gift of Healing For those that had the Gift of Healing were under the Direction of the Divine Spirit when to shew the miraculous Gift of God and when to forbear they knew by that Supernatural Direction when it was for the Glory of God and the Good of the Church or the Spiritual Advantage of the Sick Person that he should recover and then followed the Prayer accompanied with an assurance of the Event here called the Prayer of Faith together with Unction the usual Rite of miraculous Healing We have already remembred how our Lord promised to his Disciples That whatever they should ask in his Name he would do it and yet it is not to be thought that they should be able at their own pleasure to do Miracles either for the gratifying of a wanton Curiosity or when the Glory of God did not require it but that they would still be under the impulse and guidance of the Spirit when to undertake a miraculous Operation in the Name of the Lord Jesus Thus before some notable Miracles it is said of them that they were full of the Holy Ghost i. e. they were raised by a strong suggestion of the Spirit to the assured Expectation of those great things that were presently done There was not only a Divine Power that wrought those Things but there was also a Divine Impulse upon the Minds of Christ's Servants warranting them to undertake that they should be done And therefore such wonderful Things were not done upon every occasion when perhaps the Wisdom of Man would have called for them but only when it seemed good to the unerring Wisdom of God Miracles flourished in the Church in the Apostles Days but yet even then they were under the Restraint of the Divine Pleasure St. Peter was once delivered out of Prison by a Miracle But St. Paul more than once used his Prudence to gain his Liberty and to save himself In particular the Gift of Healing flourished in the Church in those Days and yet St. Paul advised Timothy to drink a (w) 1 Tim. v. 23. little Wine for his Stomachs sake and his often Infirmities yet also he (x) 2 Tim. iv 20. left Trophimus sick at Miletum I say then that the Prayer of Faith always prevailed that when the Presbyters anointed the Sick with Oil and asked his Health in the Name of Christ they were assured of the Event that the sick Person at that time was healed and that the Lord raised him up but that they asked not this in behalf of the Sick without the guidance of the Divine Spirit by which they were acted And therefore Bellarmin might have spared that Scruple that very few Believers must have died in the Apostles Days if the Unction and the Prayer of Faith is to be referred to the recovery of Bodily Health 2. That other Clause If he has committed Sins they shall be forgiven him is a Promise made upon Supposition of a Case which did not always happen in the use of Anointing the Sick Now I am yet to understand why the