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A69104 A necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christen man set furthe by the kynges maiestye of Englande &c.; Institution of a Christen man. Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Church of England. 1543 (1543) STC 5168.7; ESTC S110763 117,759 234

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manifestly sheweth in his epistle to Tite sayinge thus i Tim. v. For this cause I lefte the Crete that thou shuldest ordeyne priestes in euery citie according as I haue appointed the. T● i. And to Timothe he saythe Se that thou be not hasty to put thy handes vpon any mā And here is to be noted that althoughe this forme before declared is to be obserued in gyuyng orders yet there is no certaine rule prescribed or limitted by the word of god for the nomination election presentation or appointing of any such ecclesiasticall ministers But the same is holy left vnto the positiue lawes and ordinances of euery christē region proiuded and made or to be made in that behalfe with the assent of the prince and ruler And as concernyng the office and duetie of the sayde ecclesiasticall mynisters the same consysteth in true preachynge and teachyng the word of god vnto the people in dispensyng and ministring the sacramentes of Christe in consecratynge and offerynge the blessed body and bloud of Christe in the sacrament of the aulter in losynge and assoylyng from synne suche persons as be sory and truly penitent for the same and excommunicatynge suche as be gyltie in manyfest crimes and wyll not be refourmed otherwise and finally in praying for the hole churche of Christ and specyally for the flocke committed vnto them And althoughe the office and minysterye of priestes and byshoppes stande chiefly in these thinges before rehersed yet neither they nor any of them may exercise and execute any of the same offices but with such sort such limitation as the ordinances lawes of euery christē realme do permit and suffre And bycause it is not mete that this so chargeable a cure shuld be committed to euery man that peraduenture ambiciously wolde desyre it Therfore saynt Paule dothe dilygently set out to his disciples Timothe and Tite the conuersation learnyng conditions and qualities of them that shuld be admitted to the mynistery of priesthode i. Tim. iii. Tit. i. writyng in this maner A bishop or a priest ought to be blamelesse as the stewarde of god not wilfull not angry no drunkarde no fyghter not gredy of fylthy lucre but giuen to hospitalitie liberal discrete sobre rightuous deuout temperate and continent and such one as holdeth the true worde of doctrine that he may be able to exhort with bolsom lerning and to reproue them that saye against it Thus we haue shortly touched fyrst the ordrynge of priestes and bishoppes Secondly their ministery office and duetie with the charge cure belonging thervnto and finally the qualities and conditions required in the same And for as moche as it is an olde heresie of the Donatistes condemned in the generall counselles to thynke that the worde of god and his sacramentes shuld be of no efficacy strength or vertue whā they be ministred by euyll men it is to be remēbred that according to the saying of saynt Gregory Nazianzene Lyke as there is no differēce betwene the selfe same image or figure of any thyng imprinted with a signet of golde and a signet made of yron or of woode or any other viler mattier euen so the worde of god and the sacramentes of god mynystred by an euyll and noughty man be of the selfe same vygour strength and efficacie as whan they be ministred by a man of excellent vertu and goodnes The cause and reason wherof is for that the priestes and byshops although in the execution of their office and administration they do vse and exercise the power and auctoritie of god committed vnto them yet they be not the principall causers nor the sufficient or of them selues the efficient causers or gyuers of grace or of any other spirituall gyfte whiche procedeth and is gyuen of god by his word and his sacramentes But god is the only principall sufficient and perfite cause of all the efficacy of his worde and his sacramentes and by his only power grace and benefites it is that we receyue the holy goste and his gracis by the office and administration of the said priestes and byshoppes and the sayde priestes and bysshoppes be but onely as officers to execute and minister with their handes and tongues the outwarde and corporall thynges wherein god worketh and gyueth grace inwarde accordynge to his pacte and couenaunt made with and to his espouse the church And this also Chrisostome affirmeth the .lxxxv. homily vpon saynt Iohn where he sayth in this maner What speake I of priestis I say that neyther aungel nor archangell can giue vs any of these thynges whiche be giuen vnto vs of god but it is the father the sonne and the holy goste whiche is the effectuall cause of all these thynges the priest dothe onely put to his handes and his tongue And in this poynt saynt Ambrose also agreeth with the sayde sayinges of Chrisostome wrytyng thus The priest layeth his handes vpon vs but it is god that gyueth the grace the priest layeth vpon vs his besechynge handes but god blesseth vs with his mighty hande The byshoppe consecrateth an other bysshoppe but it is god that gyueth the worthynesse Wherfore we must always thynke and beleue that the vertue and efficacie of the word of god and his sacramētes consisteth and dependeth in and vpon the commandement ordinance power and auctoritie of god onely and that neyther the merites or worthynes of the ministers be they neuer of suche excellencie do gyue them theyr auctoritie strength or effycacie neyther yet the malyce nor corrupte lyuynge of them be it neuer so euyll can frustrate or take away from the sayde worde or sacramentes their sayd power authoritie strength or vertue Moreouer as touchynge the order of deacons we rede in the actes of the Apostles Act. vi that they were ordered and instituted by the same apostelles by prayer and imposition of their handes vpon them And as for the qualities and vertuous conuersation whiche be required in them saynte Paule setteth them out in his epistle to Timothe in these wordes l. Tim. iii. Deacons oughte to be chaste not double tounged no drunkardes not gredy of fylthy lucre hauynge the mystery of faythe in a pure conscience And their office in the primitiue churche was partly in mynistringe meate and drynke and other necessaryes to poore people founde of the churche partly also in mynystrynge to the bysshoppes and priestes and in doinge theyr duetie in the churche And of these two orders onely that is to saye priestes and deacons scripture maketh expresse mencion and howe they were conferred of the apostels by prayer and imposition of their handes And to these two the primitiue churche did adde conioyn certain other inferiour and lower degrees as subdeacons accolites exorcistes with diuerse other of the whiche mention is made of bothe of the most auncient writers that we haue in the churche of CHRIST after the apostelles and also in diuerse olde counsayles and namely in the fourthe counsayle of Aphrike in whiche
in the man doing his duetie lykewyse as is required of the woman Fynally it is to be considered how in matrimony be cōmēded specially thre good thinges al which they that contracte matrimony ought to remembre and regarde Fyrst of al the thing it selfe whiche is signified therby whiche as is sayde before is the hygh the myghty and incomprensible worke of god in the coniunction of Christe and the churche together wrought by hym to our singular benefite and euerlastynge saluation And that therfore the man wyfe ought to liue together in perfite vnitie and concorde to loue eche other as their owne bodies and to vse the same in all cleannesse puritie and honour Ephe. v. euen as Christe him selfe loued his espouse the churche and suffered all afflictions and peynes to make her glorious and voyde from all maner of spotte or wrinkle of vncleannesse Whiche matter saint Paule moste godly declareth in his epistle to the Thessaloniās where he wryteth in this maner ●… T●e iiii I pray you brethern and instantely desyre you for our lorde Iesu Christis sake that like as ye haue herde heretofore of vs howe and in what maner you shuld go forward please god so ye do procede in the same and that after suche sorte and maner that you may contynually profitte and encreace therin You remembre I doubte not what preceptes and commandementes I haue giuen vnto you in tymes past in the name of our lord IESV CHRIST And now in lyke maner in his name also I say agayne vnto you that the wylle and cōmaundement of god is that you shoulde sanctify your selues that is to saye that you shulde absteyn from all maner of fornication and that euery one of you shulde vse and keepe the vesselle of his bodye in holynesse and honour and not in desyre of carnall concupiscence lyke as the Gentyles doo whiche know not god and that no man shuld craftyly compas and circumuent his brother to obtein his flesshely lustes For almighty god taketh vengeance vpon all suche people as do committe any of those thinges Knowe you also that god hath not called vs to vncleannes and fylthynes of lyfe but vnto holines and santimonie And therfore I do exhorte you all and in the name of god commaunde you to eschue all fornication and adultery all vncleannesse and carnall concupiscence all fylthynes and vnpure lyuynge in flesshely lustes of the body And I saye further that who so euer despyseth and breaketh these my commandementes doth not despise me but despiseth god For they be his commaundementes whose spirite ye haue receyued The second good thyng which ought to be remembred in the said sacrament is the faith and mutuall promyse made betwene the husbande and the wyfe conioyned in lawful matrimony wherby and by the vertue of the sayde sacrament the persons so laufully conioyned be bound esche one to kepe promyse with the other according to such trust and cōfydence as eche had in the other and expressed by wordes in the same contracte whiche promise god did assiste and ratifie and is now partie thervnto so that the breach of that promyse and faith is now a high and displeasant offence vnto almighty god lyke as the obseruation and keping therof is in the syght of god pleasant acceptable and meritorious and the knotte also and bonde of matrimony contracted betwene the sayde persons is made therby to be indissoluble Trouthe it is that if in any mariage it may appere and be duly proued that there is suche insufficient impediment by the lawes of god or by the lawes of the realme that the same matrymony was at the beginning vnlauful of none effect in that case the church may and ought to diuorce the same persons so vnlaufully contracted declare that suche matrimony is vnlauful and the bonde therof to be of no strengthe or efficacie bycause is was neuer good from the beginninge Notwithstandyng in mariages laufully made and accordyng to the ordinance of matrimonye prescribed by god and the lawes of euery realm the bond therof can not be dissolued durynge the liues of the parties betwene whom such matrimony is made The thirde good thyng to be consydered and obserued in matrimony is the child that cometh of maryage and the good and vertuous education and bringynge vp of the same Whervnto all married men women ought to haue a speciall regard and to folowe therin the example of Thoby Tobi. iiii which taught his sonne from his infancie to loue dread god to flee absteine from all maner of sinne for goddis sake For surely if the fathers and mothers be negligent in good bringing vp of their children in their youth and suffer them to fal in to folies and synne in defaut of due correction and chastisement of them for the same no doubte they shal aunswere vnto god for it as it appereth by the greate stroke and punyshement of god i. Reg. ii iiii whan he dyd sodaynly strike Ely vnto death bicause that he knowinge his children to do amisse dyd not punishe them therfore And therfore let all parentes emply theyr diligence and busy cure to educate and instructe their children by al meanes in vertue goodnes to restrain them from vices by cōuenient discipline and castigation according to the saying of the wise mā Withdraw not thy iust discipline frō thy child for if thou do so he wyll fall into sundry inconueniences Pro. xx● and so finally shal be lost vndone Wherfore spare not to chastise thy childe with the rodde and so doing thou shalt delyuer his soule from hell And cōcerninge the childes duetie towardes the father it shal be declared hereafter in the commandementes The sacrament of Orders AS concerning the sacrament of Orders tt is to be vnderstād that order is a gift or grace of mynistration in Christis church giuen of god to christen men by the consecration imposition of the bishops handes vpon them and this sacrament was conferred and gyuen at the begynnyng by the apostles as it appereth in the epistle of saint Paule to Timothe whom he had ordered and consecrate prieste where he saythe thus ii Tim. i. I do exhorte the that thou do styrre vp the grace of god the whiche is gyuen the by the imposition of my handes And in an other place he doth monish the same Timothe and put hym in remēbrance of the rome ministery that he was called vnto in these wordes Do not neglect the grace i. Tim. iiii whiche thou hast in the and the whiche is gyuen the through prophecy and with imposition of handes by the authoritie of priesthode Wherby it appereth that saint Paul did consecrate and order priestes and bishops by the imposition of his handes And as the apostles them selues in the beginninge of the churche dyd order priestes and byshops So they appointed and wylled the other byshops after them to do the lyke as saynt Paule