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A64128	A sermon preached at the consecration of two archbishops and ten bishops, in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick in Dublin, January 27, 1660 by Jeremie Taylor ...	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing T391; ESTC R23465	25,378	54

Church a Bishop was never admitted to publick penance not onely because in them every crime is ten and he that could discern a publick shame could not discern a publick honor nor yet onely because every such punishment was scandalous and did more evil by the example of the crime then it could do good by the example of the punishment but also because no spiritual power is higher then the Episcopal and therefore they were to be referred to the Divine judgment which was likely to fall on them very heavily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord will cut the evil Stewards asunder he will suffer Schisms and Divisions to enter in upon us and that will sadly cut us asunder but the evil also shall fall upon their persons like the punishment of quartering Traitors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 punnishment with the circumstances of detestation and exemplarity Consider therefore what is your great duty Consider what is your great danger The lines of duty I have already describ'd onely remember how dear and pretious Souls are to God since for their salvation Christ gave his bloud and therefore will not easily loose them whom though they had sin'd against him yet he so highly valued remember that You are Christs deputies in the care of Souls and that You succeed in the place of the Apostles Non est facilè stare loco Pauli tenere gradum Petri You have undertaken the work of St. Paul and the office of St. Peter and what think you upon this account will be required of us St. Hierom expresses it thus The wisdom and skill of a Bishop ought to be so great that his countenance his gesture his motion every thing should be vocal ut quicquid agit quicquid loquitur doctrina sit Apostolorum that whatever he does or speaks be doctrine Apostolical The Ancient Fathers had a pious opinion that besides the Angel guardian which is appointed to the guard of every man there is to every Bishop a second Angel appointed to him at the Consecration and to this Origen alludes saying that every Bishoprick hath two Angels the one visible and the other invisible This is a great matter and shews what a precious thing that order and those persons are in the eyes of God but then this also means that we should live Angelick lives which the Church rarely well expresses by saying that Episcopal dignity is the Ecclesiastick state of perfection and supposes the persons to be so far advanc'd in holiness as to be in the state of confirmation in grace But I shall say nothing of these things because it may be they press too hard but the use I shall make of it upon occasion of the reward of the good and bad Steward is to remind you of your great danger For if it be required of Bishops to be so wise and so holy so industrious and so careful so buisy and so good up to the height of best examples if they be anointed of the Lord and are the Husbands of the Churches if they be the Shepheards of the flock and Stewards of the houshould it is very fit they consider their danger that they may be careful to do their duty St. Bernard considers it well in his epistle to Henry Archbishop of Sens If I lying in my Cell and smoaking under a Bushel not shining yet cannot avoid the breath of the winds but that my light is almost blown out what will becom of my Candle if it were plac'd on a candlestick and set upon a hill I am to look to my self alone and provide for my own salvation and yet I offend my self I am weary of my self I am my own scandal and my own danger my own eye and my own belly and my own appetite find me work enough and therefore God help them who besides themselves are answerable for many others Iacob kept the Sheep of Laban and We keep the Sheep of Christ and Iacob was to answer for every Sheep that was stoln and every lamb that was torn by the wild beast and so shall We too if by our fault one of Christs Sheep perish and yet it may be there are 100000. Souls committed to the care and conduct of some one Shepheard who yet will find his own Soul work enough for all his care and watchfulness If any man should desire me to carry a Frigat into the Indies in which a 100. men were imbarqued I vvere a mad man to undertake the charge vvithout proportionable skill and therefore vvhen there is more danger and more Souls and rougher Seas and more secret Rocks and horrible Storms and the Shipvvrack is an eternal loss the matter vvill then require great consideration in the undertaking and greatest care in the conduct Vpon this account vve find many brave persons in the first and in the middle ages of the Church vvith great resolution refusing Episcopacy I vvill not speak of those vvho for fear of Martyrdom declin'd it but those vvho for fear of damnation did refuse St. Bernard vvas by three rich Citties severally called to be their B p and by tvvo to be their Arch-Bp. and he refus'd them St. Dominicus refus'd four successively St. Thomas Aquinas refus'd the Archbishoprick of Naples and Vincentius Ferrerius vvould not accept of Valentia or Ilerda and Bernardinus Senensis refus'd the Bishopricks of Sens Vrbin and Ferrara They had reason and yet if they had done amiss in that office vvhich they declin'd it had been something more excusable but if they that seek it be as careless in the office as they are greedy of the honour that vvill be found intolerable Electus Episcopus ambulat in disco recusans volvitur in arcâ said the Hermit in St. Hierom. The Bp. walks upon round and trundling stones but he that refuses it stands upon a floor But I shall say no more of it because I suppose you have read it and considered it in St. Chrysostoms six books de sacerdotio in the Apologetie of St. Greg. Naz. in the pastoral of St. Greg. of Rome in St. Dionysius's 8th epistle to Demophilus in the Letters of Epiphanius to St. Hierom in St. Austins Epistle to Bp. Valerius in St. Bernards life of St. Malachy in St. Hieroms 138th Epistle to Fabiola These things I am sure you could not read without trembling and certainly if it can belong to any Christian then work out your Salvation with fear and trembling that 's the Bishops burden For the Bishop is like a man that is surety for his friend he is bound for many and for great sums what 's to be done in this case Solomons answer is the way Do this now my Son deliver thy self make sure thy friend give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye lids that is be sedulous to discharge thy trust to perform thy charge be zealous for Souls and careless of money and remember this that even in Christs Family there was one sad example of an Apostate Apostle and he fell