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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	receive_v	18,187	5	5.7163	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02486	The auncient ecclesiasticall practise of confirmation Confirmed by arguments drawne from Scripture, reason, councels, Fathers, and later writers. VVritten, vpon occasion of the confirmation of the Prince his Highnesse, performed on Munday in Easter-weeke, 1613. in the chappell at White-hall, by the right Reuerend Father in God, the Bishop of Bath and Wels, Deane of his Maiesties Chappell. By George Hakevvill, Doctor of Diuinitie, his Highnesse chaplaine in ordinarie. Published by authoritie.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1613 (1613)	STC 12614; ESTC S103566	14,283	32

beene very aunciently vsed not onely in Ordination of Ministers but in Confirmation of such vvho in the Congregation publikely professed the doctrine of their Catechisme And the first of them affirmeth it to haue beene in vse in his time in the C●urch of Wirtenberge and such as depended on that 8 Now I the rather presse these testimonies of later VVriters because I know there are some whose iudgements not without reason are much swayed with their Authoritie and for the generall Concurrence of antiquitie I thinke among the learned there is little question 9 The most auncient Councils of Eliberis in Spaine and Arles in France deliuer as much vpon record not onely commending but commanding the vse of this Ceremonie in their seuerall Acts. And Tertullian in his Booke of the resurrection of the flesh doth not so much aduise what should be done in this case as witnesse what the Catholike Church did in his time The Flesh saith hee is ouer-shadowed by the imposition of Hands that the Soule may be enlightened with the Spirit of Grace VVhich vvords of his seeming to ascribe too much to imposition of Hands giue mee leaue to interprete as Caluin doth Leo Bishop of Rome vnderstanding by the conferring of the holy Spirit Inuocation by earnest and heartie Prayer that it may be conferred where it is not and the Gifts and effectuall Operation of it increased where it is alreadie 10 Thus doth Saint Augustine himselfe whom Caluin seldome leaues expound the giuing of the holy Ghost by Imposition of Hands Hee saith hee speaking of Christ both receiued the holy Ghost and dispensed it receiued it as man dispensed it as God but we receiue it indeede but dispense i● not howbeit wee call vpon him for the dispensing and pouring of it forth on those on whom wee lay our hands And in another place shewes what is meant by pouring out the Holy Ghost since the ceasing of Miracles For now-a dayes saith hee the holy Ghost is not giuen through Imposition of Hands for the working of outward and sensible Miracles as heretofore it was that so the strangenesse of the Faith professed might the sooner be entertayned and the narrow bounds of the Church further enlarged for who now expecteth that they on whom hands are laid for the receiuing of the holy Ghost should presently beginne to speake with strange tongues but inuisibly the Loue of God is poured into their hearts by the secret working of the Holy Ghost To vvhich accordeth that of Bullinger on the 8. of the Acts borrowed as it seemes out of Amalarius By the outward Ceremony of the Imposition of Hands is meant that the Holy Ghost is not giuen by any strength of ours but by the hand that is the Power of God 11 I vvill conclude this Chapter with the vvords of Mr. Hooker in his fift Booke of Ecclesiasticall Policie with Prayers of Spirituall and personall Benediction the manner hath beene in all ages to vse Imposition of Hands as a Ceremonie betokening our restrayned desires to the partie vvhom vvee present vnto GOD by Prayer CHAP. III. Of the restrayning of Confirmation to the Order of Bishops 1 THat there should be an Order consisting in distinct degrees and a subordination of Offices as well in Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill Gouernment the common Practise of all Nations Iewish Heathenish Christian and the voyce of Nature and Reason seeme to proclaime that disparitie which ariseth betweene the Superiour and the Inferiour being the chiefest meanes of lincking and vniting the seuerall parcels of the whole Societie in a mutuall correspondence and reciprocall proportion of Loue and Dutie To this purpose that Bishops were superiour to other Ministers all Antiquitie with one consent if you except Aiërius who for dissenting in this poynt vvas accounted an Heretique by Epiphanius and Augustine doth acknowledge distinguishing three degrees of Ministers Bishops Presbyters Deacons answerable to the High Priest Priests and Leuites among the Iewes Ignatius who liued in the Apostles times often mentioneth this distinction as namely in his Epistle 〈◊〉 the S●yrnians Let the Lay-men saith hee be subiect to the Deacons the Deacons to the Presbyters the Presbyters to the Bishop the Bishop to Christ. And Saint Hierome notwithstanding by reason of his Controuersie with the Bishop of Ierusalem hee were held an aduersarie to the state of Bishops in his Epistle to Euagrius calleth it an Apostolicall Tradition That wee may know saith hee that the Apostolicall Traditions are taken out of the olde Testament looke what Aaron and his Sonnes and the Leuites were in the Temple the same let the Bishops Presbyters and Deacons challenge in the Church Now then as among the Iewes Aarons Sonnes iustly challenged many prerogatiues aboue the Leuites and againe Aaron himselfe aboue his Sonnes so among Christians doe the Presbyters aboue the Deacons and the Bishops aboue the Presbyters specially considering that as the distinction of Presbyters and Bishops was shadowed vnder the Law in Aaron and his Sonnes so vnder the Gospell is it established by referring their seuerall Succession the one to the Apostles the other to the 70. Disciples For that Bishops succeeded in the roome of the Apostles besides many other testimonies the Councill of Neocaesarea witnesseth Irenaeus in his third Booke and 3. Chapter Ambrose in his Commentaries vpon the 4. Chapter to the Ephesians Augustine vpon those vvordes of the 45. Psalme Instead of thy Fathers shall thy Children be And lastly S. Hierome vpon the same words and againe in his Epistle to Marcella touching the errours of Montanus But lest I be here mistaken as also for the opening of a clearer passage to my present purpose giue mee leaue to vnfolde my meaning in vvhat sence Byshops most properly are said to succeede the Apostles For the better vnderstanding of which Position vvee must obserue that the Apostles transcendently comprehended in their persons the vvhole Hierarchie of the Church as now it is and some-what aboue them all for first they were members of the Church as being Christians secondly they were Presbyters as being to preach the Gospell and administer the Sacraments thirdly they vvere Bishops for iurisdiction and imposition of Hands fourthly they vvere Apostles for the large circuit of their Commission for being called immediately by Christ himselfe for being furnished with the infallible assurance of his truth and visible assistance of his Spirit ●n speaking diuers tongues curing diseases working Miracles knowing secrets and lastly not onely for receiuing the Holy Ghost themselues in miraculous manner and measure but also for imparting it to others In this last regard I meane for their Apostolique charge they left none to succeede them this calling being extraordinary and to endure but for a time but the other three were all ordinary and consequently capable of succession In the first roome succeeded them all that professe the Gospell In the second all the Ministers of the Gospell