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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61574	Occasional sermons preached by the Most Reverend Father in God, William Sancroft ... ; with some remarks of his life and conversation, in a letter to a friend.	Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1694 (1694)	Wing S561; ESTC R35157	79,808	212

ANIMI TENORE USUS NONDUMPAR ANIMO PERICULUM INVENIT Cvl BONAE MALAEQ FAMAE MEDIO PERGENTI NEC AB EA QUAM FIXERAT ECCLESIA VERITATIS LINIA RECEDENTI USPIAM UTPOTE NEC HUJUS CONVITIIS TERRITO NEC ILLIUS ILLECEBRIS DELINITO UBIQ SUI SIMILI UNDIQ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CESSIT TANDEM CALUMNIA NON VICTA SOLUM SED ET TRIUMPHATA ET QUANTUMUIS GARRULA OBMUTUIT HANC CONCIUNCHLAM EIVS JUSSU CONCEPTAM NATAM AVSPICIIS HORTATU ET MANDATO IN LUCEM EDITAM PERPETUAE OBSERVANTIAE PIGNUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 L. MQ D. D. CQ GUILHELMUS SANCROFT PRESBYTER INDIGNUS PATERNITATI EJUS A SACRIS TIT. 1. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For this cause left I thee in Creet that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed thee THis Epistle is one of the three not unfitly styled the Hierarchical Epistles de statu Ecclesiastico compositae as Tertullian speaks being so many Rescripts Apostolical to Timothy and Titus the One desired by St. Paul to stay at Ephesus Primate of Asia the Other left in Creet Metropolitan of that and the neighbour Islands directing them how they ought to behave themselves in the House of God which is the Church of the living God True and genuine Decretal Epistles not like that counterfeit Ware which Isidore Mercator under venerable Names hath had the hardiness to obtrude upon the World but of the right stamp and alloy and such as St. Augustine saith a Bishop ought always to carry in his Hand and to have before his Eyes The Verse I have read to you following immediately upon the Salutation begins the Body of the Epistle it self and like an ingenious and well-contriv'd Perspective give us from the very Front a fair Prospect into the Contents of the whole It is as it were a kind of Magical Glass in which an Eye not blind with Ignorance nor blear'd with Passion may see distinctly the Face of the Primitive Church in that Golden Age of the Apostles the Plat-form of her Government the beautiful Order of her Hierarchy the Original and Derivation of her chief Officers and their subordination both to one another and to Christ the great Bishop of our Souls in the last Resort together with the Manage and Direction of the most important Acts of the Government both in point of Ordination and Iurisdiction toó. For here we have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Elders that is Bishops as shall be shewed in due time dispos'd of City by City in every City One these Bishops both ordained and ordered constituted and corrected created and governed by Titus alone and so He in right of the Premisses no other than Metropolitan or Arch-Bishop there the Angel or the Arch-Angel rather of the whole Church of Creet If you ask who fix'd him the Intelligence of so large an Orbe 't was St. Paul himself You have that too in the Text For this Cause left I thee in Creet If yet higher your Curiosity will needs see the Derivation of St. Paul's Power too He opens his Commission verse 1. and spreads it before You styling himself a Servant of God and an Apostle of Iesus Christ One sent abroad into the World by his Commission acted and assisted by his Spirit to plant and to govern Churches after this Scheme and Model So that my Text like Homer's Symbolical Chain consists you see of many Links but the Highest is tyed to the Foot of Iupiter's Throne or rather like Iacob's Mysterious Ladder the Foot of it stands below in Bethel the House of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head of it is in Heaven and God himself stands at the top of it and leans upon it and keeps it firm Angels Ascending and Descending upon it in the intermedial degrees the Bishops of the Church like those blessed ministring Spirits incessantly bringing down the Commands of God to the Church in their Doctrin and carrying up the Prayers of the Church before God's Throne in their Holy Offices and Intercessions So that you see this holy Oyl which without measure was shed upon the Head of our great High Priest all Power being given to Him both in Heaven and Earth runs down in full stream upon the Beard for As my Father sent me saith he to his Disciples even so send I you and so by and through them to their Successours holy Bishops and Presbyters even down to the Skirts of his Garment For in this comly and exquisite Order we find it in my Text For this Cause I Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ left thee Titus in Creet that thou shouldest set in order or correct the things that are wanting and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed thee In which Words we have these three Parts First The Erection of a Power in the Person of Titus a Metropolitical Power over the whole Island of Creet I left thee in Creet Secondly The end of this Institution or the Use and Exercise of this Power in a double Instance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Order and to Ordain to Correct and Constitute to make Bishops and to govern them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Scholia have it For this cause that thou shouldest set in order what was wanting and ordain Elders in every City Thirdly The Limitation of All to Apostolical Prescript and Direction both Ordination and Jurisdiction too the whole Office must be managed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As I had appointed thee These are the Parts Of which that I may so speak and you so hear and all of us so remember and so practice that God's holy Name may be glorified and we all built up in the knoledge of that Truth which is according unto Godliness We beseech God the Father in the Name of his Son Iesus Christ to give us the assistance of his Holy Spirit And in these and all other our Supplications let us always remember to pray for Christ ' s Holy Catholic Church i. e. for the whole Congregation of Christian People dispersed through the whole World That it would please Almighty God to purge out of it all Schism Error and Heresie and to unite all Christians in one Holy Bond of Faith and Charity that so at length the happy Day may draw upon us in which all that do confess his Holy Name may agree in the truth of his Holy Word and live in Unity and godly Love More especially let us pray for the Churches of England Scotland and Ireland That the God of Peace who maketh Men to be of one Mind in a House would make us All of one Soul and of one Spirit that again we may meet together and praise Him with one Heart and Mouth and worship him with one Accord in the Beauty of Holiness To this end I am to require you most especially to pray for