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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07535	Concerning imposition of hands A sermon a the Lord Archbishop his visitation metropolitical, held, at Saint Marie Cray in Kent, by the Bishop of Rochester his Graces commissioner, the 7 of September last, preached by Richard Milborne Doctor of Diuinitie, and parson of Seuenoke in Kent.	Milbourne, Richard, d. 1624.	1607 (1607)	STC 17917; ESTC S100306	14,523	52

fareth with him as with olde bottels in which new wine is put this was the cause of those preparatiue sanctifications before the participatiō of holy things in the time of the law Exod. 19 10. Mat. 9.17 Ito ad populum sanctifica eus hodie cras saith God to Moses before the giuing of the law Iob 1 5 And Iob first sanctified his sonnes and then sacrificed for them Thirdly hastie laying on of hands is vnlawfull in regarde of all the speciall ends for which it was vsed Non licet For first if it were ad curandum there is a time necessarily required to consider whether the patient haue faith to be healed Act 14 9. as S. Paul did ere he cured the lame man at Lystra If ad reconciliandum the trial of true repētance was with all diligence to be made which cannot be discerned vpō a sudden least hee that was loosed in earth should remain bound in heauē The former ages haue beene verie cautelous and circumspect in this point and therefore they measured out the time of repentance according to the qualitie of mens offences for to some they enjoyned it for the space of three yeares to others for seuen yeares to others for ten yeares to other for thirteen years as appeareth by the 11. Canon of the 1. Nicene Councell intituled De his qui sponte lapsi sunt qualiter debeant poenitere If Ad confirmandum handes must not be laid on before children be therevnto prepared vntill they be seasoned with the rudiments of Religion and bee capable of exhortation not to receiue the grace of God in vaine nor turne it into wantonnesse but that they bee carefull to grow vp in true godlinesse according to the grounds thereof laid and learned in their tender yeares If ad Ordinandum what a long time is necessarie to examine the sufficiencie of men for that calling vnto which so few are sufficient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle 2. Cor. 2.16 who can suddainely tell what skill they haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2.15 to diuide the word of truth aright or to speake a seasonable word to the weary soule or who knoweth without long triall what grace they haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 2.14 to walke with a right foote according to the truth of the Gospell Nazianzene in his Apologie compares the course of a Cleargie mans life to a Tumblers walking vppon a corde whose safetie consisteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in an exact euen carriage of his bodie for the least swaying to either side is no little hazard of his life So if a Cleargie man saith he swarue on either hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A small slip of his either in faith or maners procureth no small danger both to himselfe and those ouer whom he is placed This was it that mooued the faithfull in the primitiue Church to such praier and fasting Act 13.3 before they laid hands on any for ordination and this was it that afterward caused those Ieiunia 4. temporum the quarter fasts of ember weeks to bee yeerely kept throughout all Christendome and a decree to bee made that no Ecclesiasticall orders should bee Canonicall which were not giuen on the Sabbath dayes next ensuing one of these set and solemne fasts as if the most deuout prayers of the whole Catholike Church were requisite to beg a competent blessing for this holy iunction Thus we haue the contents of the first prohibition restraining the rash imparting of good to others Now let vs see the second which seemeth to be of a larger extent in forbidding the presumptuous partaking of euill with others Neither be partaker of other mens sinnes Vitia serpunt ad vicinos contactu nocent saith Seneca sinnes are like plague sores which breath out an infectious steame to all by standers so then for the fuller opening of this point we must first cōsider by what passages vices creepe from one to another and infect Secondly quomodo nocent how they hurt or endanger others by their infection For the first as the Lawyers make two sortes of accessaries one before the fact or offence committed another after so the same diuision will stand well in Diuinitie for sinne is like the serpent Amphisbaena which hath one sting in the head and another in the taile and powreth our poison at both endes and that ore trisulco with a three forked sting for before the working of any wickednes others may bee partakers of it three wayes 1. iubendo 2. prou●c●ndo 3. consulendo Direct precept word or First by commaunding other mens sinnes become ours and that eyther by direct precept of word as the murther of the Lords priestes is imputed vnto king Saul 1. Sam. 22.21 because he bad Doeg the Edomite fall vpon them writte or of Writ as the killing of Vriah the Hittite is laid to king Dauids charge 2. Sam. 12. Tu occidisti Vriam gladio For that Ioab did set Vriah in the forlorn hope by Dauids direction Indirect authorizing Or else by indirect authorizing of others to worke wickednes He that puts a sword in a madde mans hand is guilty of the mischiefe committed by it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●unda vel balista Page This is the meaning of the wisemā Prou. 26.8 when he saith Applicat lapidem balistae qui praebet honorem stolido He putteth a pellet into a stone bow to be discharged at al aduenture that setteth afoole in place of authoritie the inconuenience whereof is fitly described in the first verse of the same Chapter As snow in summer and raine in haruest so is honour vnseemely for a foole for a bad Magistrate in the ciuill state or a wicked gouernour in the church blastern the blossome and blade the hope of future increase and eyther rotteth the ripe finit of Gods haruest or else neuer lets it come to ripenes through the vnseasonable moisture of his malignant misdeameanour Prouocaando by prouocation wee may draw other mens sins vpon our selues either by daring of them Daring as Iezabel vrged Achab to the oppression of Naboth 1. Kings 21.7 Tune nunc exerceres regnum super Israelem for which offence as the dogges licked Naboaths blood so they deuoured her flesh 2. Kings 9.36 In like sorte the common prouocations of others to needles oathes friuolous contentions excessiue drinking and swilling c. fall within the compasse of this fault Or by alluring intisements of profite as Prou. 1.14 Cast in thy lot among vs wee will all haue one purse Or of pleasure Prou. 7 ●8 Come let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning Consulendo Other mens iniquities are made ours by euill counsell giuing So Balaam was guilty of the stūbling blocke which hee counselled Balaack to put before the children of Israel Numb 24.14 And therefore he stumbled vpon the Israelites sword in his going homeward Numb 31.8 Also they slew Balaam the sonne of Peor