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A86477	Mr. Hollis his speech to the Lords in Parliament concerning peace. With a motion for some course to be taken for repairing of trade, that so poore tradesmen may be preserved to hold out during these troublesome times. Whereunto is added a relation of a vision of blood in the skie, that appeared about Redding on Tuesday night last.	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2478; Thomason E90_18; ESTC R19938	15,536	34

hasten it by the advice of both the Colloques Art 3. In every Synode there shall be chosen a Minister to governe the action and a Scribe to register the actions Art 4. The Minister of the place where the assembly is made shall make a prayer in the beginning of the first sitting Art 5. The Colloques shall mutually advertise one another of the generall things they have to propose to the Synode in commodious time to this end that every one may have time to think of it more ripely And they shall give some advertisement thereof before the Colloque which goeth next before the Synode so farre as they may And as for things of smaller importance they shall be communicated of in the day of the first sitting These Articles touching the Discipline are so set downe that so much and so farre as they are grounded upon the Word of God they are immoveable And as for the points that are meerely Ecclesiasticall that is to say framed and set downe for the commoditie of the Church according to the circumstance of persons time and place they may be changed by the same authoritie they have been instituted Here followeth the manner of Installing the Officers of the Church The Promise in generall YOu promise before God his elect Angels and his Church that you will serve him faithfully in this Office taking heed to your selfe to this end that in this vocation of God you may walke worthily so as it becommeth a good servant of God without abusing it to serve your owne affections or to be pleasing unto men but that you use it with a good consciente carrying all that you doe in this office to the glory of God and to the edification of the Church principally of that over which you are set giving in all things good example unto all namely in keeping and taking good heed to the pollicy as well Ecclesiasticall as Civill procuring the good and honour of the Kingdome of England and of the I le taking paines that the people may live in good order peace and union one with another and in subjection and obedience to the Government of his Majestie the right Worshipfull the Governours his Lieftenant the Bailiefe and the Justices not consenting to any thing which is repugnant to the Lawes Civill Pollicy of the Countrey and Kingdome and the Ecclesiasticall Censures All which you shall doe so farre as your office doth require that is to say without being prejudiciall to the libertie of a good conscience Furthermore You shall not abandon or leave off your Charge for any discontentment or tediousnesse or any thing whatsoever unlesse it be by the consent of the Consistory or other to whom it appertaineth At which Consistory you shall attend if there be no hinderance the Sunday after the Catechisme to handle the Ecclesiasticall affaires And you shall take heed of not disclosing any thing that hath been handled to the parties or any other persons unlesse it be that they ought to know it in paine of being rejected from the Company Remembring alwayes that you must render an account of the charge which hath been committed unto you to the end that you may heare his most amiable voice It is well done good servant enter into the joy of thy Lord Finally that which toucheth you most neerly in regard of the particular charge you are called unto Promises Common to Ministers of the Word of God and to the Elders YOu doe promise that you will feed and governe the flocke of Christ which is committed unto you which is his house according to the pollicy that our Lord Jesus Christ hath established in his Church in having a care not by constraint but willingly and with a ready courage not for gaine or unseemely honour but onely having regard to the glory of God and to the salvation of the people Not raigning over the Church but in humilitie and feare following the Word of God You promise also to have an eye and watch upon the flocke to admonish and comfort in particular according as neede requires Also to reprehend the private faults and to bring to the Consistorie the publick faults to the end the scandalls of the Church may be hindred You shall attend the Colloques and Synodes at all times when you shall be deputed thereunto revealing nothing of that which hath been handled to the parties or any of the persons unlesse they ought to know it upon paine to be rejected from the company You promise to take carefull heed of the accompts of the Deacons at the Communion day or at least at the Communion dayes of September and Easter and that after the second Sermon of the Sabbath in which day ordinarily there is no Consistorie kept or else the Sunday following according to the opportunitie of the Church A Promise particular to the Minister of the Word YOu promise that you will deliver the most holy Word and Sacraments of God in all faithfulnesse purenesse and reverence that you will take paines in teaching the people which are capable in convincing those which contradict in casting downe the proud in erecting and lifting up the humble in bringing againe those that are strayed out of the way in cutting rightly the word of truth as a good workman which needeth not be ashamed and as a good and wise Steward of the House of the Lord distributing the spirituall meate as well to every one apart according to his abilitie as in common to all the family You shall doe this in all diligence being earnest in time and out of time And for this cause you promise to follow with all care and diligence all meanes and helpes of studie things proper to execute honour your said Ministery which notwithstanding shall be done in all simplicitie and easinesse as well in words as in sentences to this end that the rudest and most unlearned and the Church may be edified by it Above all you shall imploy your selfe in studying the holy Scriptures to this end that being well instructed touching the Kingdome of Heaven you may be like a good Father of a Family who is able to draw out of his treasure both old and new things A Promise particular to the Elders YOu promise to be assistant unto the Ministers of the Word for the Government of the Church over the which you are appointed and shall take heed to the Ministery of the Word First that the Church be not unprovided and that being established it may be reverenced and therefore you shall have an eye to them as well for the holy doctrine as for their holinesse of life and afterwards upon the rest of the Church especially upon those which are committed more neerly to your charge And therefore if there shall come any discord between any of your quarter you shall endeavour to accord them by good and brotherly advisement and if they will not obey you shall summon them to come to the Consistorie to have some convenient remedy thereof

which you shall doe principally in the Visitation before the Communion Also you shall goe at every Communion throughout all the Families of your quarter as well to your neighbours as those that are of your own houshold to know whether they live in the feare of God whether they frequent preaching if they doe pray in their houses their particular prayers evening and morning before and after meate Furthermore You doe promise to visit the sicke of your quarter and when there shall be need you shall call with you the Ministers of the Word to comfort them finally you shall procure that all things in the assemblies may be done in good order and seemlinesse A Promise particular to Deacons YOu promise to receive dispence and keepe faithfully and without deceipt or acceptation of persons the goods which are given to the poore you shall gather the almes of the poore given by the people at the going out of the Church after the Sermons and especially on the Sabbath day And if that necessitie so require because of some extraordinary need you shall goe by the houses of those which are willing to gather some come or other almes according to the good will or discretion of well disposed people And to wipe away all evill suspition you shall count out of hand the almes received which shall be set down in writing in the presence of the Ministers and one or two of the Elders And for this cause you shall have a Booke wherein to Register as well the things that are received as those that are laid out You doe promise that you will not give any almes without communicating it unto the Ministers and the Elders that you distribute the almes first of all unto those that are of the houshold of faith and if there be any overplus you may let it run down unto strangers from the Church You do promise to visit the poore sicke and to cause them to be tended and looked unto and to inquire of the necessitie of other poore principally of your quarter and to the end that they may be nourished by the almes of the Church without letting them wander and range about the streets or other Parishes And you shall procure that those which are meet to be put to occupation that they may be imployed of the which you shall advertise the Constables or those which have the charge of Justice to the end that they may not be suffered to beg A Prayer Common for all the Officers of the Church OH Lord God Father of light from whom commeth every good and perfect gift we doe pray thee most humbly in the name and favour of Jesus Christ thy onely Sonne our Saviour who being ascended into heaven in glory doth not cease to inlarge towards as thy gratious liberalitie of Officers for the work of the Ministery and building of thy mysticall bodie wee most humbly pray thee that seeing it hath pleased thee to call this our brother to the service of the Church that thou wouldest so fashion and fit him to so holy a charge that he may quit himselfe in all diligence imploying himselfe faithfully and with a fervent zeale to all that which belongeth unto his charge Give him prudency to governe himselfe well in it and force to execute all things that appertaine to him in regard of his office Above all things fill him with the spirit of thy feare to the end that he may be preserved from all scandall confusion and the allurements of this present world of the snares and ambushments of Sathan giving him patience and constancy that he may acquit faithfully his dutie as much as humane frailtie may suffer Blesse thou his labour to the end that nothing hinder the holy worke which is in his hands Shew also this grace to every one of us to acknowledge him as set and ordained of thy hand in this most holy vocation that we may be led by him without withstanding the order thou hast established in thy Charge And that by this means remaining in thy obedience thou mayst be glorified in us and thy Church may receive continuall growth to the good and salvation of thy children Proper to the Minister of the Word And in regard of his particular Charge we most humbly pray thee that this our brother which thou hast called to the Ministery of thy holy Word to the which even the holy Angells are insufficient thou wouldest enlarge him with the true keowledge of the wonderfull secrets thereof and with a singular wisdome by the which he may know how to dispence and apply to every one according to the circumstance of time of places and principally of persons that he may have his mouth opened to declare in all libertie and boldnesse truly spirituall the mystery of the Gospell As also all that which is meete for him to declare And also to administer the holy Sacraments in all puritie and reverence Give to every one of us this grace that we may receive as well the one as the other in all humilitie and trembling of heart not as comming from men but as the truth is comming from thee the living God thereby to be quickned eternally to Proper to the Elders be an Elder and watchman graunt thou that he being given for helpe to the Ministers of the Word in the government and as the eares of the body of the Church he may apply himselfe with such diligence to know the estate as well of the faith as of the manners of the flocke principally of those over the which he hath more particular charge that by this meanes he may as well admonish reprehend comfort and encourage every one according as there is need as also to certifie the Ministers of the Word of it that the Ministers by help thereof may with more profit addresse their doctrine to the Church of God Give also this grace to every one of us that we may obey and reverence him as well in private admonitions as the rest of the guiding of the Church as a father whom God hath set to watch over our soules to this end he may doe it with cheerfulnesse and not with griefe to Proper to Deacons be a Deacon that thou wouldest graunt him thy Spirit first of simplicitie to distribute the treasure of the church without acceptation of persons and then the spirit of discretion to discern of the estate of every one of the poore and especially of those which are of his quarter Finally and above all the spirit of compassion to execute his dutie towards the poore principally towards the sicke and weake in all joy and readninesse to the end they be not put to further sorrow Touch also the hearts entrayles of every one of us that following thy liberalitie towards us we may willingly and frankly distribute of our goods to sustain the necessitie of the afflicted as members of the same bodie and entertaining the communion which ought to be between the faithfull we may shew by effect that we are true members of the Church Laying on of hands I lay upon him the hands in the name of the Consistory by which imposition of hands you are advertised that you are set apart from the affaires of this world whether they be your own or any others in so much as they may hinder the charge you are called unto to be dedicated consecrated to the holy service of God Moreover that in doing your dutie faithfully roundly and in all simplicitie as before God you shall be assured of the assistance of the hand of God helpfull unto you in all your necessitie And therefore that you be not discouraged for the afflictions that may come upon you in executing your charge rather that you may sustain constantly and in all patience contempt shame and reproach of men given in this world both which things being signified by this ceremony God by his mercy and faithfulnesse accomplish and perfect in you in the name of his Sonne Jesus Christ our Saviour A generall Admonition to the people for all the Officers of the Church ANd as for you Brethren and Sisters know that the dutie of the Church towards the Brother present is to receive him willingly as sent of God bearing him honour and reverence in regard of his Charge the which he executeth towards you Take heed that you murmur not against him or against his Ministery in any sort whatsoever for the Lord will not leave unpunished the contempt of his servants and much lesse the murmuring and rash rebellion against their persons As the horrible examples that may be seene in the Scriptures doe plainly testifie It is also required of you that you pray unto God for him to this end that he may execute the office God hath called him unto in all wisdome and faithfulnesse referring all to Gods glory and the edification of his Church whereof he hath charge Speciall for the Minister of the Word Which you shall doe so much more carefully for him in regard that his charge is of so great importance as well for the glory of God as for the salvation of us all as you have partly understood by the dutie which hath been already recited To the end that speech may be given him and a mouth opened in all boldnesse to make known the secret of the Gospell and to speak frankly as it behoveth him to speak Secondly it is meet you know that the office of the Church towards the Ministers is to entertaine them honestly according to their power and abilitie for it is good reason that seing they sow spirituall things they should reap the corporall things And that the Oxe that treadeth out the graine should not want feeding as St Paul teacheth Therefore also you shall have this our Brother for recommended as touching his entertainment FINIS