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A23767	A sermon preached in St. Peter's Westminster on Sunday, Jan. 6, 1660 at the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Bristoll, Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich, Nicholas, Lord Bishop of Hereford, William, Lord Bishop of Glocester by Richard Allestry ...	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1660 (1660)	Wing A1163; ESTC R8500	24,735	46

A SERMON PREACHED In St. Peter's Westminster on Sunday Jan. 6. 1660. at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of Bristoll EDWARD Lord Bishop of Norwich NICHOLAS Lord Bishop of Hereford WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Glocester BY RICHARD ALLESTRY D. D. Canon of Christ Church in Oxford and one of his Majesties Chaplains LONDON Printed for Jo. Mar 〈…〉 Allestry and Tho. Dicas at the Bell in Saint 〈◊〉 Church-yard 1660. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD GILBERT LORD Bishop of LONDON and Deane of His Majesties Chappell Royall My Lord WHEN I consider with what reluctancies I appear thus in publick I have all reason to suspect and fear least this offering which like an unwilling Sacrifice was dragg'd to the Altar and which hath great defects too will be farre from propitiating either for its self or for the votary But I must crave leave to adde that how averse soever I was to the publishing this rude Discourse I make the Dedication with all possible zeal and ready cheerfulness For I exspect your Lordship to be a Patron not onely to my Sermon but to my Subject Such a separate eminence of virtue and of sweetness mixt together may hope to ingratiate Your Function to a Generation of men that will not yet know their own good but resist mercy and are not content to be happy And for my self Your Lordships great goodness and obligingness hath encourag'd me not onely to hope that You will pardon all the miscarriages of what I now present but also to presume to shelter it and my self under your Lordships Name and Command and to honour my self before the world by this address and by assuming the relation of My Lord Your Lordships most humbly devoted and most faithfull Servant RICH. ALLESTRY Imprimatur Geo. Stradling Reverendi in Christo Patris Gilberti Episcopi Londinensis Sacellanus domesticus Ex Aedibus Sabaudianis Feb. 2. Anno Salutis 1660. Acts 13. 2. The Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them AND as they ministred to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said Although that ministring to God by prayer and fasting be the indicted and appropriate acts to preface such Solemnities as this and that not Sermons but Litanies and intercessions are the peculiar adherents of Embers and of Consecrations and those vigorous strivings with Almighty God by Prayer are the birth-pangs in which Fathers are born unto the Church Yet since that now this Sacred Office is it self oppos'd and even the Mission of Preachers preach'd against and the Authority that sends despis'd as Antichristian whilst separation and pretence unto the Holy Ghost set up themselves against the strict injunction of the Holy Ghost to separate the Pulpit that otherwhiles hath fought against it must now atone its errours by attending on the Altar and the bold ungrounded claimes of Inspiration that false teachers have usurp'd be superseded by the voice of the Holy Ghost himself who in this case becomes the Preacher and says Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them My Text is a Commission parole from Heaven in it you have First the Person that sends it out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost said Secondly the Persons to whom it is directed imply'd in the verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 separate more particularly exprest in the foregoing words Thirdly the thing to which they were impower'd by the Commission or which was requir'd of them set down in the remaining words of the Text wherein you have 1. The Act injoyn'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 separate 2. The Object 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Separate me Barnabas and Saul 3. The End for what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a work 4. The Determination of that work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the work whereunto I have called them Of these in their Order and first The Holy Ghost said Of those five things for want of which the second Jewish Temple sunk below the first and its glory seem'd faint in the comparison the Chiefest was the Holy Ghost who became silent his Oracles ceast then and he spake no more by the Prophets A thing not onely confest by the Thalmudists who say our Rabbins have deliver'd to us that from the time of Haggai Zechary and Malachy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost was taken away from Israel but so notorious in experience that when S. Paul meets Disciples at Ephesus Acts 19. 1. and asks them if they have received the Holy Ghost whether at their Baptisme the Spirit came down upon them as He did then on others they answer ver 2. We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost any extraordinary effusions of the Spirit whether he do come down in Gifts and Afflations such as we know were usual in the first Jewish Temple but have not been for a long time and we have not yet heard they are restored for of this pouring out of the Holy Ghost they must needs mean it not of himself of whom they could not doubt nothing was more known in the Jewish Church But as our Saviour did supply the other four with all advantage and so fulfilled the Prophecy and made the glory of that Temple greater so for the fifth the Spirit he was restor'd in kinde with infinite improvement that of Joel fulfill'd I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh for they were all baptized with the Holy Ghost baptized in rivers of living waters which did flow out of the belly of themselves for this he spake of the Spirit which all that believed on him should receive Joh. 7. 39. so that Joel did scarce feel or foresee enough to prophesy of this abundance but the inundations were almost like Christ's receivings without measure Nor were his Inspirations as of old dark and mysterious oracles direction in rapture where ●●e Message it self was to have another revelation and it must 〈◊〉 prophecy to understand as well as utter But in the Gospel his effusions run clear and transparent as the water that expresseth them revealing even all the unknown languages that were the conduits and conveighances all plain express direction such as that of the Text. Now amongst all the several uses of the Holy Ghost for which he was pour'd out in this abundance amongst all the designes he did engage himself in and advance He does not seem to have a greater agency nor to interess himself more in any then in qualifying for and separating to Church-offices This seemes to be his great work and indeed how can he chuse but be particularly concern'd in those offices which are his own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Timothy's is expressly call'd so in each of his Epistles 1 Tim. 4. 14. 2 Tim. 1. 6. and when our Saviour Ephes. 4. 8. is said to give the gifts of the Holy Ghost to men it is added how ver 11. He gave