A sermon preached at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford by Jasper Mayne ...
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A sermon preached at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford by Jasper Mayne ...
Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.
Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.
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1662.
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PErlegi
hanc
Concionem
,
eámque
dignissimam
judico
quae
publicam
lucem
aspiciat
.
Geo.
Stradling
,
S.
Th.
D.
Reverendi
in
Christo
Patris
Gilberti
Episc.
Lond.
Sacellanus
domest
.
Feb.
24.
Anno
Salut
.
1661.
A
SERMON
Preached
at
the
CONSECRATION
OF
The
Right
Reverend
Father
in
God
,
Herbert
,
Lord
Bishop
of
Hereford
.
By
JASPER
MAYNE
,
D.
D.
Canon
of
Christ-Church
,
and
one
of
His
Majesties
Chaplains
in
Ordinary
.
JOHN
20.
21.
As
my
Father
sent
Me
,
so
send
I
You.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
R.
Royston
,
Bookseller
to
the
Kings
most
Excellent
Majesty
,
at
the
Angel
in
Ivie-lane
,
1662.
To
the
Right
Reverend
Father
in
God
,
BRIAN
,
Lord
Bishop
of
Winchester
,
Prelate
of
the
Honourable
Order
of
the
Garter
,
and
Almoner
to
His
Majesty
.
My
Honoured
Lord
,
THose
learned
Jews
and
Christians
,
who
have
been
curious
to
find
out
the
reason
of
some
Visions
in
the
Scripture
,
do
affirme
,
That
the
Bush
which
Moses
saw
unburnt
in
the
midst
of
fire
,
was
an
Embleme
of
the
Israelites
then
in
bondage
to
the
Aegyptians
,
who
were
not
onely
preserved
in
the
midst
of
Persecutions
,
but
thrived
under
their
Oppressions
,
hard
Tasks
and
heavy
Burthens
;
and
grew
more
numerous
from
the
politick
Arts
which
strived
to
lessen
and
destroy
them
:
till
at
length
God
contrived
them
a
miraculous
Deliverance
,
which
with
their
Calamitios
concluded
in
a
Song
.
When
I
look
back
upon
our
late
suffering
Times
,
(
the
saddest
which
I
think
any
History
hath
recorded
)
where
Oppression
backt
with
Power
made
the
Ruine
of
our
Church
the
horrid
step
and
ladder
to
the
Usurpation
of
the
Crown
;
and
where
the
name
of
a
Bishop
was
so
criminal
and
odious
,
as
to
verifie
Tertullian's
sad
complaint
of
his
brutish
Times
,
Nominis
&
vocabuli
rei
fuimus
,
We
were
made
guilty
of
a
Word
,
and
condemned
for
being
Christians
,
and
the
style
was
punisht
with
publick
Sales
and
Sequestrations
:
and
when
withall
I
do
consider
,
by
what
unlookt-for
way
of
Providence
your
Order
and
Religion
,
like
a
Treasure
snatcht
from
shipwreck
,
were
stupendiously
restored
after
many
years
Confusion
:
Methinks
that
Bush
which
Moses
saw
was
the
Embleme
of
our
Church
,
kept
safe
by
Miracle
in
the
midst
of
hungry
fire
:
and
the
Ship
in
the
Gospel
was
presented
to
my
eyes
,
where
Christ
and
his
Apostles
were
tost
in
an
hideous
Storm
;
but
he
waked
and
stilled
the
Winds
,
and
put
a
calmness
to
the
Sea.
In
these
dayes
of
publick
Calamity
,
I
was
curious
to
observe
how
several
men
behaved
themselves
in
strugling
with
their
dangers
.
I
saw
some
take
for
their
patern
the
Prophet
Jonas
in
a
storm
,
who
slept
securely
and
untroubled
when
his
Shipwreck
rolled
about
him
.
I
saw
others
so
much
Cowards
,
that
to
preserve
their
wretched
Fortunes
they
compounded
with
the
Tempest
,
and
made
a
League
and
Friendship
with
the
Winds
;
nay
,
Servilely
revived
the
Religion
of
those
base
timorous
Heathens
,
who
worshipt
every
thing
they
fear'd
,
and
sacrificed
to
Furies
,
and
built
Altars
to
their
Plagues
.
I
saw
others
of
a
nobler
and
more
stout
and
Christian
Temper
(
whose
just
reward
is
now
to
shine
like
Stars
of
Honour
in
the
Church
)
immovably
resolute
to
maintain
their
Loyalty
and
Conscience
with
the
loss
of
their
Lives
,
as
they
had
already
with
their
Fortunes
.
Yet
,
I
hope
,
it
will
be
no
diminution
of
their
Vertues
,
if
I
say
,
That
your
Lordships
Carriage
in
these
Times
of
Persecution
was
to
me
most
remarkable
;
who
by
your
happy
Restitution
,
and
addition
of
more
Honour
,
have
been
made
a
greater
Bishop
,
but
not
a
greater
Person
,
then
you
were
in
your
lowest
ebbe
of
Fortune
.
The
payment
of
your
Vow
in
your
building
of
an
Alms-house
on
the
place
where
you
your self
so
ofter
sate
,
not
wanting
of
an
Almes
,
but
weeping
o're
the
Prospect
not
then
pleasant
to
your
Eye
,
because
your
proper
business
there
was
to
aske
the
passers
by
,
If
ever
there
were
sorrows
like
to
the
sorrows
of
this
Nation
;
Your
large
Bounty
to
the
College
of
which
I
am
a
Member
,
which
,
if
I
should
name
the
Summe
,
would
make
the
world
believe
you
meant
to
found
a
new
College
,
and
not
complete
an
old
;
Your
dying
Liberalities
bequeathed
to
others
in
your
Will
,
even
to
your
meanest
Servants
,
who
were
your
servants
in
distress
,
are
things
which
do
proclaim
you
a
great
and
noble
Benefactor
.
But
these
are
but
the
good
deeds
of
your
Fortune
,
done
by
the
Bishop
of
Winchester
,
the
Charities
of
one
possest
with
plenty
and
abundance
;
your
Rents
and
Mannors
here
share
with
you
as
Co-founders
:
and
your
new
Almes-house
might
have
it
written
on
the
Walls
,
A
poor
Bishop
vow'd
this
House
,
but
a
great
and
wealthy
built
it
.
That
which
made
you
truly
great
and
reverend
in
my
eyes
,
was
to
look
into
your
noble
Heart
,
your
large
and
bounteous
Mind
,
where
your
Good
Deeds
now
,
were
then
but
Wishes
and
Designs
.
You
were
truly
great
to
me
,
when
I
saw
you
in
your
Poverty
anticipate
your
Almes-house
,
and
be
liberal
at
your
door
:
and
the
poor
people
in
your
House
now
,
had
then
places
at
your
Gate
;
when
being
reduced
to
the
last
Cruse
of
Oyle
,
you
made
the
drops
run
to
others
;
and
when
there
was
but
a
handful
of
Meal
left
in
the
little
Barrel
,
you
then
dealt
your
Loaf
to
those
who
wanted
daily
bread
.
In
short
,
when
you
had
but
two
Coats
left
,
to
give
one
to
the
naked
;
when
you
had
hardly
more
then
one
Dish
,
to
make
the
poor
your
Guests
;
to
see
you
walk
up
your
Hill
with
not
much
money
in
your
purse
,
and
return
back
with
none
;
but
then
to
think
of
laying
up
Treasures
in
Heaven
,
when
you
had
so
little
left
on
Earth
,
was
a
Charity
which
raised
in
me
a
religious
Admiration
;
and
lookt
something
like
the
Miracle
wrought
by
our
Saviour
in
the
Gospel
,
where
Multitudes
were
fed
with
two
fishes
and
five
loaves
.
Nor
may
I
,
without
some
Injustice
to
your
Vertues
,
forbear
to
let
the
world
know
,
That
I
never
saw
Afflictions
born
with
a
more
serene
and
even
temper
then
you
did
yours
;
who
in
the
worst
of
Times
stood
like
a
firme
unshaken
Rock
in
the
midst
of
angry
waves
;
your
Courage
still
the
same
,
unbroken
or
undisturbed
with
any
sad
Disasters
not
more
publick
then
your
owne
.
The
old
Church
of
England
still
kept
up
in
your
House
,
with
all
its
Formes
and
Rites
,
though
publickly
forbidden
;
Prayers
constantly
,
and
twice
a
day
,
read
by
you
for
the
King
,
at
a
time
when
such
Devotions
were
made
Treason
by
the
Tyrant
;
and
Weekly
Sermons
preacht
before
you
,
filled
with
so
much
Loyalty
and
Truth
,
as
would
any
where
else
have
cast
the
Preacher
into
Bonds
,
if
not
sent
him
from
his
Pulpit
to
the
place
of
Execution
.
To
all
this
your
Lordships
continued
Kindnesses
to
me
,
by
which
I
can
compute
my self
almost
grown
aged
in
your
Favours
;
your
encouragement
of
my
younger
Studies
,
which
grew
up
under
your
Example
;
your
Rescue
of
me
from
a
Shipwreck
in
the
late
undoing
Times
,
when
being
tost
,
and
stript
of
all
,
you
were
the
Plank
to
save
me
,
and
threw
me
out
a
line
which
drew
me
safe
to
shore
;
are
Reasons
sufficient
to
let
the
World
know
,
that
of
most
sins
I
think
Ingratitude
the
worst
.
Being
therefore
fairly
invited
at
first
to
preach
this
Sermon
,
and
since
by
several
Hearers
of
it
to
make
it
this
way
publick
,
I
beseech
your
Lordship
to
allow
it
the
shadow
of
your
Wing
;
and
to
accept
it
,
not
as
a
full
payment
of
my
Debts
to
you
,
(
for
this
very
Dedication
of
it
sets
me
deeper
on
your
score
)
but
as
a
Testimony
how
much
greater
my
Desires
are
then
my
Abilities
or
Parts
,
to
let
the
World
know
how
unfeignedly
I
am
Your
Lordships
Most
obliged
and
very
grateful
Servant
,
IASPER
MAYNE
.
Feb.
26.
1661.
1
TIM
.
4.
14.
Neglect
not
the
Gift
that
is
in
thee
,
which
was
given
thee
by
Prophecy
,
with
the
laying
on
of
the
Hands
of
the
Presbytery
.
THE
PREFACE
.
AS
in
the
raising
of
the
noblest
Heights
and
Buildings
,
that
they
may
be
exact
,
and
gain
a
reverence
from
the
Eye
,
great
preparations
are
made
towards
the
Erection
of
the
Pile
;
the
best
Masters
in
that
Art
are
taken
into
counsel
,
and
Vitruvius
is
consulted
to
assist
it
with
his
Rules
;
Platforms
are
drawn
,
and
Models
are
contrived
,
that
what
was
but
a
Scheme
may
be
brought
into
a
Structure
:
Which
made
Aristotle
say
,
when
he
spoke
like
a
Philosopher
,
but
so
as
that
his
saying
holds
in
Architecture
too
,
That
a
material
House
or
Palace
springs
from
an
immaterial
;
and
the
Pile
,
which
is
the
creature
of
the
Workmans
Tool
without
,
was
first
shap'd
and
form'd
by
some
designing
mind
within
:
Lastly
,
as
when
the
materials
are
all
ready
and
prepared
,
some
are
set
on
work
to
hew
and
square
the
Stones
,
others
to
dispose
them
into
their
several
seats
and
stations
,
others
to
oversee
that
the
Workmen
doe
their
Duties
,
and
that
all
things
be
done
regularly
as
the
Surveyors
shall
direct
:
So
God
hath
proceeded
by
the
same
course
and
method
,
in
the
designing
,
shaping
,
forming
and
building
of
his
Church
.
Upon
whose
rude
beginnings
if
we
cast
our
eyes
,
as
it
first
appeared
in
the
times
before
the
Law
,
though
it
began
with
the
World
,
and
be
as
ancient
as
Mankind
,
and
had
the
same
Corner-stone
laid
which
now
supports
the
Building
,
in
the
promised
Seed
,
which
was
to
bruise
the
Serpents
head
;
yet
that
Corner-stone
being
wrapt
up
in
a
Mystery
,
and
many
thousand
years
required
to
remove
the
Veil
and
Cloud
,
't
was
but
then
a
Church
creeping
forth
out
of
the
Quarrey
,
without
a
hand
to
give
it
its
just
feature
and
perfection
.
'T
is
true
indeed
,
the
Light
of
Nature
,
helpt
by
the
light
and
guidance
of
Tradition
,
sufficiently
inform'd
men
that
God
was
to
be
worship'd
;
but
the
way
or
manner
how
,
the
work
and
person
of
the
Priest
,
the
time
when
,
the
place
where
,
with
what
holy
Forms
and
Rites
,
was
left
wholly
to
their
Reason
to
discover
and
find
out
.
So
that
in
the
state
of
Nature
the
case
stood
with
Religion
,
as
some
have
observed
it
did
with
the
first
Essayes
in
Painting
;
unskilful
men
at
first
drew
faces
with
a
Coale
,
to
which
after-times
found
Colours
,
and
gave
beauty
by
their
Pencil
.
Or
,
if
you
will
hear
me
speak
in
the
language
of
a
Poet
,
in
this
imperfect
state
of
Nature
the
case
stood
with
God
in
a
way
of
Service
and
Religion
,
as
it
did
with
the
first
Jupiter
at
Rome
;
Aedibus
exiguis
habitabat
Jupiter
ingens
,
Inque
Jovis
dextrâ
fictile
fulmen
erat
.
He
was
so
rustickly
adored
,
that
a
Thatcht
.
Cottage
was
his
Temple
,
where
he
stood
holding
an
Farthen
Thunder
in
his
hand
.
To
redeem
himself
from
so
much
rudeness
of
Devotion
,
and
to
contrive
a
Worship
some
way
worthy
of
his
Greatness
,
in
the
times
of
the
Law
he
chose
unto
himself
a
select
,
peculiar
People
,
which
he
formed
into
a
Church
;
and
placed
it
for
some
Ages
like
a
City
on
a
Hill
,
to
invite
the
erring
World
to
be
its
Proselytes
and
Converts
.
His
Service
here
below
was
taught
to
move
like
the
Heavens
above
,
in
a
well-tuned
harmony
and
musick
of
the
Spheres
.
A
High-priest
was
appointed
,
and
the
Miter
set
upon
his
head
;
and
inferiour
Priests
and
Levites
had
their
lower
Orbs
assigned
them
.
Sacrifices
were
prescribed
,
and
the
business
of
the
Temple
proportion'd
and
cut
out
to
the
several
Orders
and
Degrees
of
those
,
who
thus
distinguish'd
were
to
wait
upon
the
Altar
:
and
the
distinction
was
so
sacred
,
and
the
several
bounds
so
set
,
that
as
the
Levite
was
not
to
invade
the
Office
of
the
Priest
,
so
those
inferiour
Priests
who
broke
beyond
their
bounds
,
and
attempted
to
invade
the
Office
of
the
High-priest
,
were
not
said
to
offer
Sacrifice
,
but
strange
fire
before
the
Lord
,
and
perish'd
for
their
boldness
with
their
Censers
in
their
hands
:
To
let
us
see
,
that
God
was
then
the
God
of
Order
,
and
turn'd
such
mens
Oblations
into
their
ruine
and
destruction
.
Yet
the
Jewish
Church
thus
modelled
by
Almighty
God
himself
,
was
but
the
imperfect
draught
and
platform
of
a
much
holier
Church
to
come
.
'T
was
but
like
their
Tabernacle
,
their
House
of
Offerings
and
Oblations
,
a
moveable
Pavilion
,
or
Tent
fitted
for
a
march
towards
a
Land
of
Promise
,
not
yet
discovered
to
their
eye
;
where
that
transitory
Building
,
that
Temple
made
of
threds
,
was
to
be
taken
down
to
make
way
for
one
more
lasting
.
In
short
,
as
't
is
observed
,
(
and
't
is
St.
Austins
Observation
)
That
in
the
forming
of
the
Jewish
Church
the
platform
was
first
drawn
,
and
presented
in
a
holy
Scheme
to
Moses
in
the
Mount
;
so
when
that
Scheme
or
Platform
was
wrought
into
a
Fabrick
,
when
that
which
was
a
Pattern
became
a
bodied
Truth
,
even
that
glorious
Church
,
in
the
midst
of
all
its
splendour
,
was
but
a
type
and
shadow
of
the
Christian
Church
to
come
.
Some
of
the
old
lines
were
indeed
to
be
preserved
,
but
with
the
addition
of
new
colours
drawing
nearer
to
the
life
;
a
High-priest
was
to
be
retained
,
but
with
his
Robes
and
Miter
changed
;
the
Order
of
Aaron
was
to
pass
into
the
Order
of
Melchisedeck
;
no
longer
to
remain
the
Priest
of
one
private
,
single
People
,
but
to
be
the
publick
Priest
of
all
the
Nations
in
the
World.
The
inferiour
Priests
and
Levites
too
were
to
shift
and
change
their
Ephods
,
and
to
pass
into
the
Christian
Presbyter
and
Deacon
.
And
now
to
hold
you
no
longer
in
the
Porch
and
Entrance
of
this
Sermon
,
but
to
draw
this
large
Circle
to
its
intended
Point
and
Centre
;
to
reduce
those
Shadows
into
Substance
,
and
those
Platforms
into
Building
;
to
form
a
new
Church
out
of
the
ruines
of
an
old
,
stupendious
in
the
raising
,
and
eternal
in
duration
;
to
make
the
Scripture-Prophecy
become
true
authentick
Story
,
and
the
Glory
of
the
second
Temple
to
eclipse
and
drown
the
first
;
to
break
down
the
Partition-Wall
which
divided
Jews
from
Gentiles
;
to
square
disproportion'd
Subjects
,
and
unite
all
Nations
in
one
Faith
,
and
by
one
common
Gospel
to
bring
them
to
Salvation
;
was
a
Work
reserved
for
none
but
Christ
the
Son
of
God
himself
.
Who
,
as
he
was
before
designed
to
be
the
Head
of
this
new
Church
,
so
,
that
he
might
be
the
Founder
and
Foundation
of
it
,
the
chief
Corner-stone
and
great
Master-builder
too
,
all
the
Powers
of
Heaven
did
help
to
carry
on
the
Work.
I
think
I
need
not
tell
you
,
that
the
Gospel
,
like
the
Law
,
was
at
first
proclaimed
by
the
Ministry
of
Angels
;
that
Jacobs
dream
and
vision
was
made
by
them
true
story
;
a
Ladder
was
set
up
which
reach'd
from
Earth
to
Heaven
,
and
they
ascending
and
descending
with
sacred
Messages
to
Men.
Nay
,
the
Holy
Ghost
himself
,
who
foretold
this
in
the
old
Testament
,
was
most
busily
imployed
to
fulfill
it
in
the
new
:
every
Sermon
preach'd
was
attended
with
a
miracle
;
and
the
Doctrine
signed
and
ratified
with
holy
prodigies
and
wonders
;
the
Preachers
all
inspired
with
gifts
proportion'd
to
their
Work
,
and
enabled
by
those
gifts
to
go
and
teach
all
Nations
.
Nay
,
so
sollicitous
and
careful
was
this
holy
Spirit
of
God
to
provide
fit
Successors
to
those
inspired
and
gifted
Teachers
,
that
for
many
years
after
the
first
plantation
of
the
Gospel
,
not
a
Bishop
was
installed
or
admitted
to
his
Chair
,
not
a
Pastor
to
his
Charge
,
not
a
Deacon
to
his
Table
,
which
was
not
first
designed
,
and
named
,
and
qualified
by
him
.
And
this
I
might
prove
to
you
by
several
places
of
the
Scripture
,
but
none
more
clear
then
this
which
I
have
chosen
for
my
Text
;
where
St.
Paul
sayes
to
one
of
those
new
consecrated
Bishops
,
Neglect
not
the
Gift
that
is
in
thee
,
which
was
given
thee
by
Prophecy
,
with
the
laying
on
of
the
Hands
of
the
Presbytery
.
IN
which
words
you
have
these
considerable
Parts
.
First
,
the
Person
here
consecrated
to
the
sacred
Office
of
a
Bishop
:
that
was
Timothy
,
exprest
in
this
word
Thee
.
Next
,
his
Qualification
for
that
divine
and
sacred
Office
:
he
was
a
Gifted
man
,
a
man
fitted
for
that
Honour
;
exprest
in
this
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
The
Gift
that
is
in
thee
.
Thirdly
,
his
Conge
D'Eslire
,
or
Designation
to
that
Office
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Author
of
that
Gift
:
't
was
given
him
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
by
the
prediction
of
the
Prophets
.
Fourthly
,
the
Forme
of
his
Consecration
to
that
Office
:
the
holy
Ghost
designed
him
,
but
the
Church
gave
him
Ordination
;
't
was
done
by
the
laying
on
of
the
Hands
of
the
Presbytery
.
Lastly
,
St.
Pauls
fatherly
Advice
to
him
for
his
Deportment
in
that
Office
;
in
these
words
,
Neglect
not
the
Gift
which
was
thus
bestowed
upon
thee
.
Of
these
in
this
order
;
and
first
of
the
Person
,
that
was
Timothy
,
exprest
in
this
word
Thee
.
As
the
distance
between
God
and
Man
was
so
great
,
that
none
but
one
who
was
compounded
of
both
Natures
was
fit
to
reconcile
them
,
or
to
be
a
Mediator
;
so
in
reconciling
the
Jews
to
the
Gentiles
,
to
make
them
piece
and
joyn
in
one
united
Church
,
none
was
so
fit
to
procure
a
good
liking
and
agreement
,
as
one
in
whom
both
parties
had
an
equal
Interest
&
claim
.
Now
of
all
the
men
designed
by
God
to
accomplish
that
great
Work
,
I
know
none
in
all
kinds
so
well
fitted
and
proportion'd
as
this
holy
man
,
the
Bishop
in
this
Text
;
whose
very
birth
disposed
him
to
break
down
Partition-walls
,
and
to
be
a
Reconciler
of
both
parties
from
the
womb
.
For
,
if
we
enquire
into
his
Original
or
Birth
,
as
't
is
set
down
in
the
Church-book
,
Acts
16.
his
Mother
was
a
Jewess
,
but
a
Jewess
made
a
Christian
;
and
his
Father
was
a
Greek
,
but
well-affected
to
the
Jews
,
as
you
may
read
in
the
first
Verse
of
that
Chapter
:
not
a
Greek
Hellenist
,
or
Jew
bred
in
Greece
,
called
so
from
the
Grecian
Language
which
he
spoke
;
nor
a
Greek
in
the
Grecian
sense
,
a
man
opposed
to
a
Barbarian
:
but
a
Greek
in
the
general
acception
of
the
Scripture
,
which
divides
the
whole
World
of
men
into
two
Members
,
Jews
and
Greeks
.
For
,
if
we
may
give
credit
to
the
Syriack
Translator
,
he
was
Aramaeus
,
that
is
,
no
Greek
,
but
Syrian
:
or
as
the
Latine
Interpreter
more
largely
hath
described
him
,
he
was
Homo
Gentilis
,
that
is
,
no
Jew
,
but
Gentile
.
And
as
his
Birth
did
thus
prepare
him
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
all
Nations
,
so
St.
Paul
,
who
well
knew
the
advantage
of
this
mixture
,
and
how
readily
a
Jew
would
hearken
to
a
Jew
,
and
a
Gentile
be
perswaded
by
one
who
was
a
Gentile
,
to
make
his
Capacity
more
passable
and
currant
,
thought
fit
to
circumcise
him
,
though
he
were
before
a
Christian
;
as
you
may
read
at
the
fourth
Verse
of
that
Chapter
.
That
by
imploying
one
to
preach
who
was
a
baptised
Jew
,
and
one
who
withall
was
a
circumcised
Believer
,
all
prejudices
might
be
stopt
,
and
no
objection
left
to
hinder
or
obstruct
the
free
passage
of
his
Sermons
.
For
that
this
was
the
reason
why
he
circumcised
him
,
namely
,
not
to
oblige
him
to
observe
and
keep
the
Law
,
but
to
remove
obstructions
from
his
preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
is
evident
from
the
end
and
close
of
that
Verse
,
which
sayes
,
that
St.
Paul
in
a
holy
prudence
did
it
,
because
They
all
knew
that
his
Father
was
a
Greek
.
And
certainly
,
as
St.
Paul
by
this
action
,
this
politick
design
,
gained
justly
to
himself
the
reputation
of
that
style
,
which
he
bestows
upon
himself
,
of
being
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
A
wise
Master-builder
,
in
the
third
Chapter
of
his
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
at
the
tenth
Verse
;
one
who
knew
how
to
fit
his
Tools
to
his
Matter
,
to
hew
rude
Subjects
to
his
Ends
,
and
to
give
them
shape
and
form
,
so
as
to
work
upon
the
tempers
of
disagreeing
Minds
:
so
no
passage
more
confirms
that
rare
Description
of
his
Art
,
which
he
makes
in
the
9.
Chapter
of
that
Epistle
,
at
the
20.
Verse
and
forwards
,
where
he
sayes
,
That
he
became
all
things
to
all
men
;
as
a
Jew
to
the
Jews
,
and
as
a
Gentile
to
the
Gentiles
;
to
them
under
the
Law
as
a
man
lock'd
up
in
shackles
,
to
them
without
Law
as
at
perfect
liberty
and
freedom
:
And
all
this
to
compass
his
great
Catholick
Design
,
which
was
to
bring
,
if
possible
,
both
parties
to
salvation
.
Next
then
,
as
his
Birth
did
much
contribute
to
his
Function
,
so
his
Education
contributed
much
more
.
He
was
bred
in
a
Family
upon
which
Religion
seem'd
entail'd
,
where
Piety
ran
in
a
bloud
,
and
lineally
descended
,
like
Vertue
of
Inheritance
,
from
the
Parents
to
the
Child
.
St.
Paul
speaking
of
his
Mother
Eunice
,
and
his
Grandmother
Lois
,
in
the
1.
Chapter
of
his
2.
Epistle
to
him
,
at
the
5.
Verse
,
sayes
,
It
very
much
rejoyced
him
to
find
the
same
unfeigned
Faith
in
him
,
which
in
a
holy
Pedegree
he
received
and
took
from
them
.
And
certainly
,
as
ill
Example
hath
the
power
to
convey
hereditary
Vices
,
to
infect
by
being
seen
,
and
to
corrupt
by
imitation
;
nay
,
as
Vice
in
the
Parent
hath
such
an
influence
on
the
Child
,
as
to
think
it
disobedience
where
the
Parent
is
a
sinner
,
not
to
be
as
wicked
and
as
great
a
sinner
too
:
(
As
the
young
Virgin
in
the
Poet
seeing
her
unchast
,
lascivious
Mother
write
Letters
to
her
loose
Adulterer
and
Servant
,
thought
her self
obliged
to
think
Chastity
a
sin
,
and
so
learnt
in
time
to
write
such
Letters
too
;
or
as
the
young
Gentleman
,
whose
Father
was
a
Gamester
,
learnt
to
handle
Dice
,
and
stake
whole
Mannors
at
a
Throw
)
So
good
Example
hath
the
like
power
to
infect
by
being
seen
,
and
Vertues
may
like
Vices
be
made
hereditary
too
.
But
besides
those
seeds
of
Vertue
sown
in
him
by
his
Parents
,
St.
Paul
himself
had
been
his
Tutor
,
and
had
the
forming
of
his
manners
;
he
was
bred
up
in
his
School
to
that
ripeness
and
perfection
,
that
he
superscribes
this
Epistle
to
him
as
to
one
begotten
by
him
:
To
Timothy
my
Son
,
sayes
he
;
nay
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
To
Timothy
my
own
Son
,
sayes
our
English
Translation
.
But
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
the
Greek
,
if
we
may
believe
St.
Jerome
,
is
a
word
to
which
no
other
Tongue
can
find
a
word
to
match
it
;
a
word
which
in
all
kinds
signifies
the
Son
to
have
such
a
near
resemblance
to
the
Father
,
as
almost
to
confirm
the
Opinion
of
Andreas
Dudithius
,
who
,
in
his
book
De
Conjugio
Presbyterorum
,
maintains
that
St.
Paul
was
married
and
had
children
,
like
St.
Peter
.
Of
which
,
but
that
we
know
his
Father
was
a
Greek
,
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
might
perswade
us
that
this
Timothy
was
one
.
Indeed
the
resemblance
between
them
was
so
great
,
that
as
in
other
births
and
natural
generations
the
marks
to
distinguish
the
true-born
from
the
spurious
are
the
likeness
of
the
child
in
shape
and
visage
to
the
parent
,
Sic
oculos
,
sic
ille
manus
,
sic
or
a
ferebat
;
If
he
have
his
Fathers
eyes
and
cheeks
,
looks
,
hands
and
gestures
too
,
we
may
conclude
him
genuine
,
and
the
Parent
twice
the
same
:
So
St.
Jerome
in
his
close
Interpretation
of
that
word
,
proceeds
by
a
distinction
,
which
holds
comparatively
true
;
St.
Paul
had
many
Sons
,
sayes
he
,
whom
he
converted
to
the
Faith
,
as
the
Corinthians
and
Ephesians
,
whom
he
vouchsafes
to
call
his
Sons
:
But
the
style
of
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
or
Filius
germanus
,
the
style
of
true-born
Son
,
so
in
all
things
like
himself
,
as
not
to
be
more
the
Son
of
the
Parents
that
begot
him
,
then
he
was
his
morum
filius
,
the
Off-spring
of
his
Mind
,
so
furnisht
with
his
vertues
,
so
accomplish'd
with
his
gifts
,
so
zealous
in
his
preaching
,
so
valiant
in
afflictions
,
so
active
in
his
spreading
the
Gospel
through
the
World
,
was
a
style
bestowed
on
none
but
this
Timothy
and
Titus
:
As
if
all
others
were
his
Bastard-sons
,
begot
upon
some
Hagar
,
and
onely
these
two
were
legitimate
.
It
is
St.
Jerome
sayes
so
.
In
short
,
as
likeness
in
manners
begets
a
dearness
in
affections
,
and
as
a
friendship
in
affections
begets
a
likeness
in
engagements
;
so
St.
Paul
made
him
his
Fellow-labourer
and
Associate
.
When
the
Decrees
of
the
Apostles
were
to
be
disperst
,
made
in
their
general
Council
assembled
at
Jerusalem
,
this
Timothy
was
chosen
to
assist
him
in
his
Travels
;
as
you
may
read
in
the
16.
Chapter
of
the
Acts
,
at
the
4.
Verse
.
When
an
Evangelist
was
to
be
sent
to
confirm
those
distant
Churches
,
which
St.
Paul
himself
had
planted
,
but
was
not
able
to
re-visit
,
this
Timothy
was
sent
as
his
Deputy-Lieutenant
;
as
you
may
read
in
several
Epistles
to
those
Churches
.
To
all
this
,
such
a
holy
prudence
shined
forth
in
all
his
actions
,
his
Morals
were
so
good
and
so
seasoned
with
Religion
,
that
his
Name
was
like
that
precious
Oyntment
in
the
Scripture
,
still
breathing
forth
perfumes
in
all
places
where
he
came
:
For
,
he
was
well
reported
of
,
he
was
above
all
reproch
and
scandal
;
as
you
may
read
at
the
3.
Verse
of
that
Chapter
.
And
of
such
Instruments
as
this
did
the
Holy
Ghost
make
choice
to
be
Preachers
of
the
Gospel
,
and
Rulers
in
the
Church
:
Men
,
whose
Life
as
well
as
Doctrine
was
still
Sermon
to
the
People
;
men
,
who
confuted
Vice
not
more
by
argument
and
reason
,
then
by
their
blameless
carriage
and
vertuous
conversation
.
'T
was
against
the
Oeconomy
and
Discipline
of
Heaven
,
to
send
men
into
Gods
Vineyard
who
went
drunk
into
the
Field
;
and
who
minded
not
the
vine
,
but
the
vintage
,
grape
and
wine
.
And
the
Holy
Ghost
himself
had
erred
,
had
he
given
his
Pearls
to
Swine
,
to
the
sensual
or
intemperate
,
still
wallowing
in
the
mire
:
or
had
he
taken
his
holy
things
,
and
cast
them
unto
Dogs
;
no
sooner
eased
of
one
distemper
,
but
returning
to
another
.
No
cloven
Tongues
of
fire
did
sit
upon
their
heads
,
whose
tempers
were
still
cloven
,
still
kindling
Flames
and
Factions
,
still
breaking
of
Gods
people
into
divisions
,
rents
and
schisms
.
The
gift
of
Knowledge
was
not
dropt
upon
the
ambitious
,
proud
,
high-minded
;
their
Bladder
swelled
too
much
,
and
was
too
much
puft
up
before
.
To
him
that
hath
shall
be
given
,
was
the
Rule
Gods
Spirit
went
by
;
and
more
gifts
were
given
to
him
who
had
well
imployed
the
former
.
Which
leads
me
on
to
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
or
Gift
,
here
in
this
Text
,
and
comes
in
the
next
place
to
crave
a
room
in
your
Attentions
.
The
Saying
of
our
Saviour
Christ
when
he
spoke
it
was
so
true
,
in
the
10.
Chapter
of
St.
Luke
at
the
2.
Verse
,
The
Harvest
truly
is
great
,
but
the
Labourers
are
few
;
that
to
increase
their
number
,
and
to
fit
them
for
the
work
,
the
Holy
Ghost
was
fain
to
interest
himself
in
the
choice
of
workmen
,
and
the
qualifying
of
them
too
:
His
work
and
business
't
was
to
send
men
into
the
Field
,
and
to
teach
them
how
to
manage
and
use
their
Sickle
too
.
The
Men
already
chosen
,
if
their
number
had
been
greater
,
where
a
World
was
to
be
converted
,
were
too
disproportion'd
for
the
Harvest
.
Besides
,
they
wanted
parts
for
so
great
an
undertaking
;
unless
they
could
have
done
like
the
man
in
Eunapius
a
Greek
Historian
,
who
tells
us
of
one
Aedesius
,
who
had
so
much
the
Spirit
of
Divination
in
his
power
,
that
he
would
but
clap
a
Wreath
of
Lawrel
on
his
head
,
and
straight
speak
by
Inspiration
,
straight
put
himself
in
Raptures
,
and
utter
learned
Oracles
,
to
the
great
amazement
of
the
Hearers
.
The
Apostles
were
not
all
bred
at
the
feet
of
Gamaliel
,
but
were
as
yet
unlearned
,
men
called
from
mending
Nets
,
fitter
to
deal
with
Fishes
,
and
to
put
forth
a
Boat
to
Sea
,
then
to
cast
their
Nets
on
Land
,
and
there
catch
men
in
the
Inclosure
.
Besides
,
being
Jews
,
they
were
hardly
fit
to
preach
to
Jews
;
for
where
was
their
gift
of
Miracles
to
work
upon
the
Jews
,
who
were
onely
to
be
gained
by
Miracles
and
Wonders
?
Had
they
preacht
to
the
Gentiles
,
where
was
their
gift
of
Tongues
,
to
preach
to
all
Nations
,
who
could
speak
no
Tongues
but
one
?
Had
Christ
sent
to
Athens
to
stock
himself
with
Preachers
,
he
might
have
found
great
Scholars
there
,
but
hard
to
be
perswaded
to
forsake
their
own
Schools
,
and
to
list
themselves
in
his
:
Nay
,
these
for
some
Ages
were
the
greatest
Enemies
of
the
Faith
;
men
who
measured
Truth
by
Aristotles
Precepts
,
and
would
believe
no
more
then
what
some
Plato
taught
:
Nay
,
men
who
,
like
Porphyrius
,
called
the
Christian
Religion
Barbaram
philosophiam
,
A
barbarous
Philosophy
;
A
new
Doctrine
creeping
forth
into
the
World
by
the
foolishness
of
Preaching
;
affraid
to
enter
combate
with
any
rational
Dispute
,
or
to
endure
a
tryal
where
right
Reason
was
opponent
.
According
to
that
which
St.
Paul
hath
delivered
in
the
first
Chapter
of
his
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
at
22
,
23.
Verses
,
where
he
sayes
,
The
Jews
require
a
sign
,
and
the
Greeks
seek
after
wisdom
.
That
is
,
the
Jews
would
believe
no
more
of
the
Gospel
then
they
saw
confirmed
by
miracle
,
and
proved
by
signs
and
wonders
:
And
the
learned
Greeks
or
Gentiles
would
admit
no
more
then
they
saw
confirmed
by
Syllogisme
,
and
proved
by
Demonstration
.
In
this
scarcity
of
Preachers
then
,
to
win
upon
all
parties
,
and
to
captivate
both
Jews
and
Gentiles
to
the
obedience
of
the
Gospel
,
the
Holy
Ghost
pour'd
forth
his
gifts
,
proportion'd
to
the
work
which
each
man
was
to
do
,
as
Time
,
Place
and
Countrey
needed
:
To
one
was
given
the
Word
of
Wisdom
,
to
another
the
Word
of
Knowledge
,
to
another
Prophecy
,
to
another
the
gift
of
Healing
,
to
another
the
gift
of
Miracles
,
to
another
the
gift
to
discern
true
Prophets
from
the
false
,
to
another
the
gift
of
Tongues
,
to
another
the
gift
to
interpret
the
sense
and
meaning
of
those
Tongues
:
And
all
these
wrought
that
one
and
self-same
Spirit
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
for
the
building
of
the
Church
;
as
you
may
read
in
the
12.
Chapter
of
the
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
the
11.
first
Verses
.
Now
in
the
distribution
and
imparting
of
those
gifts
,
unless
it
were
our
Saviour
Christ
the
Son
of
God
himself
,
in
whom
this
holy
Spirit
had
no
limit
,
bound
or
measure
,
he
never
did
pour
forth
himself
in
such
overflowing
gifts
as
he
did
on
the
Apostles
,
the
first
Preachers
of
the
Gospel
.
The
old
Prophets
had
him
sparingly
,
more
sprinkled
then
poured
forth
;
he
was
to
them
a
little
Brook
,
to
these
a
full-tide
Sea
;
he
fell
in
single
drops
on
them
,
on
these
in
full-grown
showres
.
Besides
,
they
had
him
but
sometimes
,
these
to
themselves
and
heirs
:
they
were
able
,
like
a
firm
Estate
,
to
bequeath
him
in
their
Wills
,
and
to
make
him
their
gift
to
others
,
as
he
was
his
own
gift
to
them
;
for
whereever
they
laid
their
Hands
the
holy
Ghost
still
followed
.
The
gift
of
Tongues
,
of
Prophecy
,
of
Miracles
and
Healing
,
were
as
naturally
diffused
by
them
as
the
Sun
sheds
light
and
beams
.
And
now
I
speak
of
Miracles
,
methinks
the
persons
were
the
greatest
,
upon
whom
this
holy
Spirit
did
thus
pour
forth
his
gifts
.
That
men
not
bred
to
Letters
should
suddenly
grow
wise
,
and
be
every
one
a
School
and
Athens
to
himself
;
to
be
able
to
maintain
Disputes
with
great
Scholars
of
all
Sects
;
to
make
a
Sadducee
confess
there
was
a
Resurrection
,
and
to
make
a
Pharisee
recant
his
false
glosses
on
the
Law
;
nay
,
to
make
Aristotles
school
send
forth
Disciples
unto
Christ
,
and
to
erect
a
new
Church
in
Plato's
Commonwealth
;
to
see
a
Zeno
or
Chrysippus
surrender
up
his
Chair
,
and
sit
at
the
feet
of
a
poor
Fisherman
inspired
;
to
hear
an
Apollos
so
eloquent
in
Preaching
,
as
if
some
Tully
or
Demosthenes
were
got
up
into
the
Pulpit
;
to
hear
men
speak
all
Languages
,
who
had
learned
no
Tongue
but
one
,
so
as
to
be
thought
Natives
in
all
Countries
where
they
came
,
and
who
travelled
through
the
World
,
yet
never
went
from
home
;
lastly
,
to
see
a
plain
unskilful
man
,
who
never
heard
of
Galen
,
and
to
whom
Hippocrates
was
utterly
unknown
,
without
the
help
of
medicines
do
Cures
beyond
the
power
of
Physick
,
to
cure
Palsies
,
Fevers
,
Dropsies
,
Gouts
,
by
the
bare
virtue
of
a
Word
;
to
make
blind
men
see
,
and
lame
men
walk
,
by
virtue
of
a
Touch
;
nay
,
to
make
their
shadows
do
the
business
of
Physicians
,
and
to
cure
all
Diseases
by
their
bare
shadows
passing
by
:
These
,
these
indeed
were
gifts
which
bore
down
the
World
before
them
;
these
changed
the
face
of
Empires
,
and
gave
new
form
to
States
;
converted
Heathens
into
Christians
,
and
Idolaters
to
Saints
.
Now
,
whether
all
these
gifts
,
or
any
one
of
these
,
were
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
gift
here
given
to
this
Bishop
,
because
this
Text
is
silent
,
I
cannot
well
determine
.
Grotius
thinks
it
was
the
gift
of
Tongues
;
and
perhaps
his
reason
was
,
because
being
an
Evangelist
and
Co-adjutor
to
St.
Paul
,
whose
task
and
business
't
was
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
all
Nations
,
this
could
not
well
be
done
without
the
Language
of
all
Nations
.
Others
think
it
was
the
gift
of
Wisdom
,
by
which
without
the
help
of
Books
he
was
inspired
with
Knowledge
.
But
then
why
did
St.
Paul
,
in
the
Verse
next
before
this
Text
,
bid
him
improve
himself
by
study
,
and
addict
himself
to
reading
and
exhortation
till
he
came
?
Where
by
Reading
sure
is
meant
the
Theory
of
Knowledge
,
by
Exhortation
the
exercise
and
reduction
of
it
into
practice
.
Others
therefore
think
,
that
here
is
meant
the
gift
of
Healing
.
But
then
St.
Chrysostoms
dispute
in
his
Homily
on
that
Text
,
Drink
no
longer
Water
,
but
use
a
little
Wine
for
thy
Stomachs
sake
and
often
Infirmities
,
will
deserve
to
be
considered
,
and
to
have
the
Question
askt
,
Why
,
if
he
had
the
gift
of
Healing
,
did
he
not
heal
himself
?
unless
this
may
be
an
Answer
,
That
being
but
a
Novice
,
or
young
man
,
endued
with
the
gifts
and
parts
of
old
,
God
would
not
give
him
leave
to
cure
this
weaknesse
in
himself
,
lest
his
gift
of
Knowledge
should
swell
and
puff
him
up
.
Since
the
gifts
of
the
holy
Ghost
are
not
so
secure
from
danger
,
but
that
they
may
degenerate
into
high-mindednesse
and
pride
.
Nay
,
this
it
seems
was
St.
Pauls
very
case
;
who
though
he
had
the
gift
of
healing
to
that
miraculous
degree
,
as
to
be
able
to
raise
men
from
the
dead
;
yet
after
his
strange
Rapture
up
into
the
third
Heaven
,
after
all
the
glorious
Visions
and
Revelations
of
that
place
,
lest
he
should
be
exalted
above
the
measure
of
a
man
,
A
thorn
in
the
flesh
,
called
the
Messenger
of
Satan
,
was
sent
to
buffet
him
,
and
to
humble
him
again
:
in
the
12.
Chapter
of
the
2.
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
at
the
7.
Verse
.
Where
some
too
injuriously
,
and
too
unchastely
too
,
by
that
thorn
in
the
flesh
conceive
some
concupiscence
or
lust
;
but
he
himself
calls
it
an
infirmity
or
weaknesse
,
for
which
his
gift
of
Healing
could
not
contrive
a
cure
;
as
you
may
gather
from
the
8
,
&
9.
Verses
of
that
Chapter
.
But
now
after
all
this
which
I
hitherto
have
said
,
what
if
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
or
gift
,
here
mentioned
in
this
Text
,
were
none
of
all
these
,
but
the
very
Office
of
a
Bishop
,
here
given
him
by
Prophecy
,
with
the
laying
on
of
hands
?
Certainly
,
if
those
ancient
Fathers
and
great
Lights
of
the
Church
,
who
living
near
the
Spring-head
did
see
the
stream
run
clear
,
wrote
not
by
a
false
light
,
which
deceived
themselves
and
others
;
St.
Jerome
,
Ambrose
,
Haymo
,
Primasius
,
and
some
others
,
in
which
number
was
Lyranus
,
were
of
this
Opinion
.
Nay
,
the
2.
Canon
of
the
Nicene
Council
,
the
18.
Canon
of
the
Council
of
Ancyra
,
the
101.
Canon
of
the
Council
called
in
Africk
,
do
speak
as
if
those
Fathers
did
either
make
those
Canons
,
or
did
inspire
the
pen
of
the
Scribe
or
Register
who
wrote
them
.
And
truly
,
if
I
may
joyn
Historians
to
those
Councils
and
those
Fathers
,
Eusebius
in
his
6.
Book
and
8.
Chapter
,
Socrates
in
his
7.
Book
and
41.
Chapter
,
do
make
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
last
word
in
this
Text
,
bear
the
same
sense
and
meaning
with
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
signifies
not
a
Presbytery
of
Elders
,
but
the
very
Office
of
an
Elder
,
ordained
and
made
a
Bishop
.
Indeed
this
Text
in
Greek
,
if
we
transpose
the
words
a
little
,
doth
seem
to
favor
this
Opinion
,
and
may
be
made
to
run
thus
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
That
is
,
Neglect
not
the
gift
of
Eldership
which
is
in
thee
,
which
was
given
thee
by
Prophecy
,
with
the
laying
on
of
Hands
.
Where
it
would
not
be
hard
to
prove
to
you
by
the
best
primitive
Records
,
That
the
word
Eldership
,
where
ere
't
is
used
in
the
Writings
of
the
New
Testament
,
signifies
the
dignity
and
office
of
a
Bishop
.
Nay
,
if
you
will
hear
me
quote
a
more
authentick
Author
then
all
these
,
not
for
his
integrity
,
(
for
he
was
no
friend
to
Bishops
)
nor
yet
for
his
parts
,
(
for
St.
Jerome
sure
had
greater
)
but
for
his
authority
,
which
ought
not
to
be
question'd
,
when
the
Enemy
of
a
cause
bears
witness
to
the
Truth
;
Mr.
Calvin
himself
was
of
this
Opinion
;
who
in
the
4.
Book
of
his
Institutions
,
and
the
3.
Chapter
,
hath
translated
this
Greek
Text
into
this
modern
Latine
,
Fac
ut
gratia
quam
per
manuum
impositionem
accepisti
,
cum
te
Presbyterum
crearem
,
non
sit
irrita
.
Take
heed
the
grace
or
favour
which
was
bestowed
upon
thee
by
the
laying
on
of
Hands
,
when
I
made
thee
a
Presbyter
,
were
not
given
thee
in
vain
.
Where
though
he
do
mistake
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
for
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
signifies
a
grace
or
favour
,
as
the
other
doth
a
gift
;
yet
he
did
not
erre
when
he
made
both
words
agree
in
this
,
that
in
this
place
they
signifie
an
Office
given
by
the
Church
.
But
what
need
I
quote
Authorities
either
ancient
or
more
modern
,
when
I
have
a
clear
demonstration
of
Gods
Spirit
,
that
by
the
gift
here
in
this
place
is
meant
an
Office
given
?
For
doth
not
St.
Paul
remove
all
Clouds
,
and
lend
a
Sun-beam
to
this
Text
,
in
the
4.
Chapter
of
the
Ephesians
,
from
the
8.
to
the
12.
Verse
?
Doth
he
not
there
strike
one
of
the
chief
strings
in
Davids
harp
,
and
say
,
That
Christ
ascended
up
on
high
,
that
he
led
captivity
captive
,
and
that
he
gave
gifts
to
men
?
And
what
were
those
gifts
?
The
11.
Verse
resolves
you
;
they
were
the
several
Offices
and
Orders
in
his
Church
:
He
gave
some
Apostles
,
some
Prophets
,
some
Evangelists
,
some
Pastors
,
and
some
Teachers
;
as
you
may
read
in
that
place
.
And
all
this
for
the
perfecting
of
the
Saints
,
for
the
work
of
the
Ministry
,
for
the
building
of
his
Church
;
as
the
End
is
exprest
in
the
12.
Verse
of
that
Chapter
.
Onely
by
the
way
I
cannot
but
observe
,
That
in
the
bestowing
of
those
gifts
,
those
Church
-
Offices
and
Functions
,
as
none
were
to
partake
them
without
commission
from
the
Church
;
so
lest
the
Church
should
erre
in
the
admission
of
the
persons
,
they
still
brought
their
Letters
Testimonial
from
Gods
Spirit
.
He
first
by
some
Prophet
designed
and
named
them
to
their
Office
,
before
the
Church
drew
up
their
Patent
,
by
the
Imposition
of
their
Hands
.
Which
is
the
Conge
D'Eslire
,
or
third
part
of
this
Text
,
namely
,
the
Prophecies
which
markt
out
this
Bishop
for
his
See.
What
Prophet
't
was
,
or
whether
one
or
many
,
by
whom
the
holy
Ghost
design'd
this
Bishop
to
his
Office
,
is
wrapt
up
in
a
Cloud
which
affords
no
light
to
see
by
.
But
sure
't
was
none
of
the
old
Prophets
,
who
though
they
were
called
Seers
,
yet
this
person
stood
too
distant
to
fall
within
their
view
.
And
because
the
name
of
the
new
Prophet
is
not
set
down
in
particular
,
the
most
we
can
do
is
to
seek
for
him
by
conjecture
.
In
the
21.
Chapter
of
the
Acts
,
at
the
8
,
9.
Verses
,
't
is
said
,
that
St.
Paul
in
his
Travels
with
this
Disciple
in
his
Train
,
came
to
Caesarea
,
where
dwelt
Philip
the
Evangelist
;
Into
whose
house
they
entered
,
and
abode
there
many
dayes
:
And
that
Philip
had
four
daughters
,
Virgins
,
which
did
prophesie
.
Again
,
't
is
said
at
the
10
,
11.
Verses
of
that
Chapter
,
that
Whilest
they
staid
there
,
a
certain
Prophet
named
Agabus
came
down
from
Judaea
,
who
prophesied
against
Pauls
going
to
Jerusalem
.
Now
the
circumstances
of
Persons
,
Time
and
Place
thus
laid
together
,
have
made
it
probable
to
some
,
that
some
one
of
these
She-prophetesses
,
conversing
daily
with
him
,
or
that
Agabus
,
who
forewarned
St.
Paul
of
his
imprisonment
and
bonds
,
were
opportunely
moved
by
Gods
Spirit
in
that
place
,
to
nominate
this
Timothy
to
his
Bishoprick
and
Charge
,
of
which
St.
Paul
no
longer
could
be
an
Over-seer
.
And
great
reason
there
was
why
the
Prophets
should
have
a
hand
in
all
such
sacred
Nominations
;
who
standing
next
to
the
Apostles
in
the
Bill
and
Catalogue
of
Honour
,
(
for
there
were
first
Apostles
,
then
Prophets
,
then
Evangelists
,
then
Pastors
)
As
an
Evangelist
was
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
Fellow-labourer
or
Assistant
to
a
travelling
Apostle
in
the
dispersion
of
the
Gospel
;
so
when
he
was
to
fix
and
settle
in
some
one
certain
place
,
and
from
an
itinerant
Preacher
or
Evangelist
was
to
pass
into
a
Bishop
,
for
order
sake
some
Prophet
,
who
stood
next
in
rank
above
him
,
was
to
recommend
him
to
the
Consecration
of
the
Church
,
to
point
him
out
his
Diocese
where
he
was
to
reside
,
with
the
full
power
of
an
Apostle
fixt
and
seated
to
his
charge
.
So
that
the
business
of
those
Prophets
was
partly
to
foretell
the
contingent
future
accidents
which
were
to
happen
in
the
Church
,
partly
to
provide
fit
Guides
and
Rulers
for
it
.
But
whoe're
the
Prophet
was
(
for
't
is
but
Curiosity
to
search
)
the
same
holy
Spirit
which
did
consecrate
our
Saviour
to
be
the
Head
of
the
Church
,
and
to
publish
his
own
Gospel
,
in
the
4.
Chapter
of
St.
Luke
at
the
18.
Verse
,
where
he
sayes
,
and
quotes
the
Prophet
Esay
for
it
,
The
spirit
of
the
Lord
is
upon
me
,
because
he
hath
anointed
me
to
preach
the
Gospel
;
and
the
same
holy
Spirit
who
commissioned
the
Apostles
to
go
and
plant
a
Church
in
all
Nations
of
the
World
;
the
same
holy
Spirit
,
I
say
,
did
direct
and
guide
the
Church
in
the
choice
of
the
persons
who
were
to
follow
and
succeed
them
.
For
here
if
I
may
draw
waters
from
the
same
Fountains
and
Spring-heads
from
whence
others
have
poured
forth
their
Discourses
on
this
subject
,
In
the
first
Age
of
the
Church
,
when
't
was
but
yet
a
tender
plant
,
the
first
businesse
of
the
Apostles
was
in
their
Travels
through
the
World
,
to
convert
it
from
Idolatrie
,
and
to
gain
Proselytes
to
Christ.
When
the
number
of
Believers
was
every
where
increast
,
and
the
name
of
Christian
,
which
at
first
began
at
Antioch
,
was
every
where
disperst
as
far
as
Words
were
Names
of
persons
;
the
next
business
of
the
Apostles
(
whose
commission
like
the
Sun
's
was
never
to
stand
still
or
settle
in
one
place
,
but
still
to
move
like
him
from
one
Countrey
to
another
)
was
to
mould
their
new
Believers
into
well-form'd
and
govern'd
Churches
,
especially
in
great
Cities
,
such
as
Ephesus
and
Corinth
;
and
to
appoint
them
Over-seers
,
who
should
both
teach
and
rule
the
Flock
:
lest
being
left
like
Sheep
without
a
Shepherd
to
o'relook
them
,
they
either
should
be
swallowed
up
by
their
own
Heresies
and
Schisms
,
or
should
break
out
of
the
Fold
,
and
relapse
back
again
to
Heathens
.
These
Overseers
,
or
,
as
the
Scripture
calls
them
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
These
Bishops
of
the
Flock
,
they
were
compelled
to
chuse
out
of
their
new
Converts
and
Disciples
;
who
in
that
infancy
of
time
,
that
famine
of
great
Parts
,
were
generally
men
whose
Faith
was
far
greater
then
their
Knowledge
;
men
not
bred
in
Schools
,
unskilled
in
Tongues
and
Arts
,
especially
the
Art
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
Art
of
Ruling
well
.
Indeed
they
were
such
men
as
St.
Paul
describes
in
that
mean
and
humble
Map
which
he
drew
of
those
Times
,
in
the
first
Chapter
of
his
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
at
the
26.
and
27.
Verses
,
where
he
sayes
,
Ye
see
your
calling
,
Brethren
,
how
that
not
many
wise
men
after
the
flesh
,
not
many
mighty
,
not
many
noble
are
called
:
But
God
hath
chosen
the
foolish
things
of
the
World
to
confound
the
wise
,
and
weak
things
of
the
World
to
confound
the
mighty
;
and
base
things
,
and
things
despised
,
and
things
that
are
not
,
hath
God
chosen
,
to
annihilate
and
bring
to
nought
the
things
that
are
.
To
supply
this
great
Defect
,
the
holy
Ghost
was
fain
to
assist
the
very
Apostles
in
the
making
of
their
choices
,
and
to
furnish
men
with
gifts
and
parts
which
might
fit
them
for
Elections
.
Nay
,
the
persons
generally
were
so
ungifted
,
raw
,
unlearned
,
in
all
kinds
so
unfit
to
rule
or
govern
in
the
Church
,
that
he
was
fain
to
qualifie
them
in
a
way
of
new
creation
,
to
make
Things
which
were
not
bring
to
nought
the
things
that
were
;
to
give
form
to
shapelesse
matter
,
to
change
their
Ignorance
to
Knowledge
,
to
make
unwise
men
wise
,
and
to
raise
their
Wisdom
out
of
nothing
;
to
call
Light
out
of
Darknesse
,
and
then
divide
it
into
Stars
;
to
make
those
learned
Shepherds
who
were
but
lately
Sheep
,
able
to
defend
their
Flocks
from
the
most
fierce
and
learned
Wolves
:
In
short
,
to
call
a
Church
out
of
a
Chaos
,
and
give
a
beauty
to
confusion
;
to
dispose
the
several
parts
into
well-tuned
Orbes
and
Spheres
;
to
place
great
Lights
in
this
new
Firmament
,
which
were
to
rule
the
Day
,
and
lesser
Lights
to
drive
and
chace
away
the
Night
;
was
a
Work
which
required
the
Illumination
of
Gods
Spirit
,
to
hold
a
Torch
to
those
who
had
else
stood
in
the
dark
.
And
this
is
that
which
St.
Chrysostom
,
Oecumenius
,
Theodoret
,
Theophylact
,
and
many
other
ancient
Writers
have
very
well
observed
.
For
St.
Chrysostom
in
his
Comment
upon
this
very
Text
sayes
,
that
in
this
childhood
,
this
nonage
of
the
Church
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
That
nothing
was
done
as
Mans
Wisdome
did
direct
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
but
by
the
direction
of
Gods
Spirit
:
whose
business
't
was
not
onely
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
to
foretell
things
to
come
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
but
to
reveal
things
present
too
,
especially
in
the
choice
of
fit
Rulers
in
the
Church
.
Clemens
Romanus
speaking
of
those
Rulers
sayes
,
That
the
first
Bishops
which
were
made
were
made
by
the
Apostles
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
having
tryed
them
by
the
Spirit
.
Oecumenius
also
speaks
as
if
the
other
held
his
pen
,
and
sayes
almost
in
the
same
form
of
words
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
The
first
Bishops
were
made
Bishops
by
the
appointment
of
Gods
Spirit
.
Thus
St.
Paul
and
Barnabas
were
of
Preachers
made
Apostles
,
Act.
13.
2.
thus
Titus
was
made
Metropolitane
of
Creet
,
Tit.
1.
5.
and
thus
Timothy
in
this
Text
was
made
the
first
Ephesian
Bishop
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
by
the
Spirit
of
God
designing
of
him
by
the
Prophets
.
Nay
,
Eusebius
in
the
third
Book
of
his
Ecclesiastical
History
,
taking
Clemens
of
Alexandria
for
his
Chronologer
and
Warrant
,
sayes
,
That
this
way
of
making
Bishops
,
by
the
Appointment
of
Gods
Spirit
,
was
observed
in
the
Church
till
the
death
of
St.
John
,
who
after
his
return
from
his
banishment
to
Ephesus
,
being
intreated
by
the
Church
there
to
provide
for
succession
,
went
through
all
the
Regions
near
in
a
holy
Visitation
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
ordained
such
a
Clergie
as
the
holy
Ghost
revealed
.
So
that
they
who
have
been
curious
to
compute
St.
Johns
return
,
which
was
in
the
Reign
of
Nerva
,
the
98.
year
of
Christ
,
30.
years
after
St.
Pauls
martyrdom
,
do
reckon
,
That
from
the
day
of
Pentecost
,
in
which
the
holy
Ghost
descended
on
the
Apostles
in
cloven
Tongues
of
fire
,
to
the
time
of
St.
John's
death
,
which
was
in
the
100.
year
of
Christ
,
this
way
of
making
Bishops
by
the
designation
of
Gods
Spirit
,
continued
in
the
Church
66.
years
complete
.
At
which
time
the
Church
having
taken
general
root
,
and
from
a
grain
of
Mustard-seed
being
become
a
spacious
Tree
,
able
to
diffuse
it self
without
Miracles
and
Wonders
,
those
gifts
of
Gods
Spirit
which
had
brought
it
to
this
Growth
,
and
had
every
where
furnisht
it
with
Rulers
sent
from
Heaven
,
like
the
Manna
in
the
Scripture
,
ceast
to
fall
on
those
who
had
now
the
Promised
Land
given
to
them
in
possession
.
But
yet
though
all
this
be
true
,
we
are
not
to
suppose
that
Gods
Spirit
did
so
wholly
ingrosse
this
businesse
to
himself
,
as
to
obtrude
those
new
Rulers
on
the
Church
without
their
Allowance
and
Approbation
too
.
He
onely
did
direct
and
name
and
recommend
them
;
't
was
left
to
the
Church
to
admit
them
to
their
Cures
:
he
but
designed
the
Persons
,
the
Church
gave
them
Ordination
,
by
the
laying
on
of
the
Hands
of
the
Presbytery
.
Which
describes
to
us
the
Forme
of
this
Bishops
Consecration
,
and
comes
in
the
fourth
place
to
be
considered
and
examined
.
'T
is
observed
,
that
the
Spirit
of
God
,
who
in
the
Jewish
Church
spoke
by
the
several
sparklings
of
those
precious
stones
or
Jewels
,
which
shined
in
the
Brest-plate
of
Aaron
the
High-priest
,
where
a
Diamond
and
Amethyst
gave
Oracles
and
Answers
,
and
an
Agate
might
be
reckoned
into
the
number
of
the
Prophets
,
removed
those
precious
stones
into
the
twelve
Apostles
,
and
made
them
twelve
Foundation
-
stones
in
the
new
Building
of
Christs
Church
;
as
you
may
read
in
the
21.
Chapter
of
the
Revelation
,
at
the
18
,
19.
Verses
.
Certainly
,
whatever
in
that
Church
conduced
to
Piety
and
Order
,
whatever
might
be
made
a
patterne
for
religious
Imitation
,
the
Christian
Church
transcribed
as
holy
Platformes
of
their
building
.
The
Waters
of
Baptism
,
the
Bread
and
Wine
in
the
other
Sacrament
,
the
Distinction
of
their
Hierarchie
into
Higher
Priests
and
Lower
,
and
the
Ordination
of
those
Priests
by
the
laying
on
of
Hands
,
were
borrowed
and
translated
from
the
old
Temple
to
the
new
.
In
the
pursuit
and
handling
of
which
last
,
namely
,
the
laying
on
of
Hands
,
(
which
is
the
proper
Theme
and
Subject
of
this
Text
)
two
things
I
will
observe
to
you
:
First
,
the
several
Ends
and
Uses
to
which
it
was
applied
:
next
,
who
the
Persons
were
who
were
commissioned
to
apply
it
.
First
,
as
for
the
several
Ends
and
Uses
of
this
Ceremony
,
in
the
times
of
the
Old
Testament
't
was
sometimes
made
use
of
in
a
way
or
forme
of
Blessing
.
Thus
Jacob
laid
his
hands
upon
the
two
sonnes
of
Joseph
,
and
blest
them
on
his
Death-bed
;
in
the
48.
Chapter
of
Genesis
,
at
the
14.
Verse
.
Nay
,
in
this
way
of
blessing
,
if
we
may
believe
Lipsius
in
his
Book
De
Cruce
,
or
several
sorts
of
Crosses
,
the
same
holy
Spirit
who
revealed
the
Shiloh
to
him
,
the
promised
Messias
,
Christ
,
who
suffered
on
the
Crosse
,
did
direct
and
guide
his
Hands
to
do
something
like
a
Christian
:
for
in
laying
his
right
hand
on
the
younger
Son
,
and
his
left
hand
on
the
elder
,
the
crosse
postures
of
the
Children
on
whom
he
laid
his
hands
,
made
his
Imposition
bear
the
figure
of
a
Crosse.
Next
,
this
laying
on
of
hands
was
sometimes
made
use
of
in
the
making
and
creation
of
a
great
Minister
of
State.
Thus
Moses
did
chuse
Josuah
to
succeed
him
in
his
Power
,
in
the
27.
Chapter
of
Numbers
,
at
the
last
Verse
.
And
thus
Senators
were
admitted
into
the
great
Sanedrim
or
Council
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
by
the
laying
on
of
the
hands
of
some
of
the
elder
Senators
;
as
the
Thalmudists
report
.
In
the
New
Testament
this
Ceremony
was
as
diversly
applied
.
Our
Saviour
Christ
laid
his
hands
upon
the
little
children
brought
unto
him
,
and
blest
them
,
sayes
the
Text
,
of
which
this
was
the
mark
and
signe
;
in
the
10.
Chapter
of
St.
Mark
,
at
the
16.
Verse
.
'T
was
also
made
use
of
in
the
Visitation
of
the
Sick
;
in
the
16.
Chapter
of
St.
Mark
,
at
the
18.
Verse
.
But
it
never
was
omitted
in
the
Consecration
of
a
Bishop
,
Ordination
of
a
Priest
,
nay
,
of
a
Deacon
too
.
Onely
to
make
it
the
more
solemne
and
effectuall
,
the
Church
added
usually
their
Prayers
and
Fastings
too
.
Thus
Saint
Paul
was
made
a
Preacher
by
the
laying
on
of
hands
,
in
the
9.
Chapter
of
the
Acts
,
at
the
12.
Verse
.
And
thus
Saint
Paul
and
Barnabas
were
of
Preachers
made
Apostles
:
the
Elders
and
Prophets
which
were
at
Antioch
having
fasted
,
and
prayed
,
and
laid
their
hands
upon
them
,
sent
them
away
;
in
the
13.
Chapter
of
the
Acts
,
at
the
3.
Verse
.
And
thus
Timothy
in
this
Text
was
made
the
first
Bishop
of
Ephesus
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
by
the
laying
on
of
Hands
.
But
why
by
the
laying
on
of
Hands
?
some
disputing
men
have
ask'd
.
Why
by
such
a
Forme
,
such
a
Ceremony
as
this
?
Why
not
by
a
Licence
drawne
up
in
Writing
from
the
Church
?
Nay
,
sayes
the
Independent
Preacher
,
by
a
Licence
from
the
State
?
I
must
confesse
the
Question
is
not
so
hardly
answered
as
his
,
who
askt
what
God
did
before
he
made
the
World
,
what
kind
of
Fruit
't
was
by
which
our
first
Parents
fell
,
where
they
had
the
Needle
which
stitch'd
their
Leaves
together
,
or
where
they
had
the
Thred
before
the
Art
of
Spinning
was
found
out
.
For
here
suppose
I
should
reply
,
and
give
this
for
an
Answer
,
That
't
was
Gods
Will
to
have
it
so
,
so
directing
by
his
Spirit
:
Who
then
art
thou
,
O
Man
,
who
darest
dispute
with
God
?
Must
the
Potter
give
a
Reason
of
his
Actions
to
his
Clay
?
But
God
,
who
made
the
World
in
Number
,
Weight
and
Measure
,
who
never
did
a
thing
superfluous
or
vaine
,
but
made
Order
to
distinguish
his
Creation
from
a
Chaos
,
without
which
his
six
dayes
Works
had
still
lain
in
a
confusion
,
proceeded
by
a
Reason
,
nay
,
a
multitude
of
Reasons
,
in
this
way
of
giving
Order
to
his
Church
.
For
,
First
,
what
would
men
have
him
do
?
Issue
forth
commissions
to
the
Rulers
of
his
Church
,
as
he
did
to
the
Apostles
,
in
Miracles
nad
Wonders
?
Had
he
gone
no
further
,
he
must
have
still
wrought
Wonders
,
to
perswade
the
doubting
World
that
they
were
Rulers
sent
by
him
.
And
so
when
such
Miracles
,
such
Signes
and
Wonders
ceast
,
the
Church
for
want
of
Miracles
must
have
wanted
Rulers
,
and
then
for
want
of
Rulers
must
have
ceast
to
be
a
Church
.
The
Gifts
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
which
I
mentioned
to
you
before
,
though
they
made
men
fit
,
and
prepared
them
to
be
Rulers
;
yet
being
invisible
,
secret
,
and
unseen
,
without
some
outward
mark
to
make
them
own'd
and
knowne
,
to
those
who
knew
them
not
would
but
have
past
for
private
Spirit
,
not
able
to
gain
publick
faith
to
the
persons
thus
commission'd
.
Some
outward
Mark
was
needful
then
to
let
the
People
know
who
the
Persons
were
whom
God
designed
to
be
their
Guides
.
As
to
let
the
Jews
know
that
Christ
was
to
be
their
Head
,
the
Holy
Ghost
descended
on
him
in
the
figure
of
a
Dove
;
and
to
let
all
Nations
know
who
were
to
be
their
Teachers
,
in
the
sight
of
all
Nations
then
assembled
at
Jerusalem
,
the
Holy
Ghost
fell
on
the
Apostles
in
cloven
Tongues
of
fire
:
So
to
let
after-Ages
know
who
were
to
be
their
Leaders
,
the
same
Holy
Ghost
appointed
the
laying
on
of
Hands
,
as
the
way
and
forme
of
issuing
forth
his
commissions
by
the
Church
.
And
the
Reasons
of
this
Ceremony
were
yet
more
clearly
these
.
There
be
two
wayes
,
sayes
the
Civil
Law
,
by
which
men
take
possession
,
and
so
gaine
a
propriety
in
a
thing
which
was
not
theirs
.
If
it
be
a
thing
immoveable
,
as
Lands
,
Tenements
or
Houses
,
by
treading
on
the
Soyle
they
take
Possession
by
their
Feet
;
if
it
be
a
moveable
,
as
Goods
,
Money
,
Ware
or
Servant
,
to
gaine
to
themselves
a
property
,
they
take
possession
by
their
Hands
.
So
when
God
called
a
Man
to
be
his
Minister
or
Servant
,
as
to
preach
,
or
beare
some
publick
Office
in
his
Church
,
by
the
Hands
of
his
Church
he
took
possession
of
him
,
and
the
person
thus
laid
Hands
on
was
no
more
his
owne
,
but
Gods.
Next
,
this
laying
on
of
Hands
,
as
it
was
a
forme
of
Alienation
,
by
which
the
person
thus
ordained
did
quit
all
Interest
in
himself
,
and
past
himself
away
to
the
Service
of
Gods
Church
;
so
it
was
a
forme
of
Hallowing
and
Consecration
too
.
The
Case
stood
with
men
ordained
as
it
did
with
other
things
made
holy
.
As
for
Example
,
In
the
Old
Testament
,
a
Beast
in
the
herd
was
but
a
common
creature
of
the
Field
,
indifferent
for
the
Shambles
or
to
be
made
a
Sacrifice
:
But
being
fetcht
from
thence
and
brought
into
the
Temple
,
when
the
Priests
which
waited
there
had
laid
their
hands
upon
him
,
he
was
no
more
one
of
the
herd
,
but
an
Oblation
for
the
Altar
;
and
of
a
Beast
became
the
Expiation
of
a
Sinne.
The
Stones
in
the
Quarrey
are
but
vulgar
,
common
stones
,
indifferent
to
be
wrought
into
a
Kitchin
or
a
Temple
:
But
being
fetcht
from
thence
,
and
made
a
consecrated
Building
,
that
which
was
a
common
heap
becomes
a
house
of
Prayer
.
Once
more
:
The
Waters
running
in
the
Streame
,
or
drawne
out
of
the
Well
,
are
but
a
common
Element
,
no
holier
then
the
Streame
:
But
being
poured
into
the
Font
,
and
there
applied
to
Baptisme
,
that
which
was
common
Water
puts
on
the
nature
of
a
Sacrament
.
And
I
might
say
as
much
of
the
Lords
Supper
too
;
The
bread
in
the
common
lump
is
indifferent
for
all
Tables
,
no
holier
then
the
Sheafe
,
or
Corne
ungathered
in
the
Field
:
But
being
made
into
a
Loafe
,
and
set
upon
the
holy
Table
,
and
there
being
touched
and
hallowed
by
the
Priest
,
that
which
was
a
Loafe
becomes
the
body
of
our
Saviour
.
In
short
,
as
Holinesse
,
in
the
best
and
strictest
Definition
of
it
,
is
nothing
but
the
separation
or
apartment
of
a
thing
from
a
common
use
to
a
religious
and
divine
,
(
as
the
Sabbath
was
called
holy
,
because
a
common
part
of
Time
was
divided
from
the
rest
,
and
allotted
to
Gods
service
:
)
so
a
man
thus
ordained
by
the
laying
on
of
hands
,
became
a
person
separated
from
the
common
heap
of
Men
,
a
person
hallowed
for
a
Work
whose
Institution
was
divine
.
Thirdly
,
how
shall
men
preach
except
they
be
sent
?
sayes
Saint
Paul
,
in
the
10.
Chapter
of
the
Romans
,
at
the
15.
Verse
.
Where
the
Question
is
not
put
as
if
it
were
physically
impossible
for
men
to
preach
to
others
without
Authority
or
Licence
from
the
Church
.
In
our
late
licencious
Times
,
where
Men
inspired
themselves
,
the
Cobler
,
Weaver
,
Tinker
,
and
Lay-preaching
Souldier
did
it
,
and
went
up
into
the
Pulpit
with
a
Sword
by
their
Side
,
or
with
an
Awle
,
or
Shuttle
,
or
Trowel
in
their
Hand
.
But
Quo
Jure
?
Where
was
their
Warrant
or
Commission
to
do
so
?
Who
signed
and
sealed
their
Patent
by
the
laying
on
of
hands
?
Certainly
,
if
Men
have
not
power
to
preach
without
this
Authorizing
Forme
,
I
am
not
Erastian
enough
to
believe
that
they
may
assume
the
power
and
usage
of
the
Keyes
,
Excommunicate
,
Ordaine
,
Confirme
,
Deliver
up
to
Satan
,
and
judicially
passe
Censures
upon
Schismes
,
Heresies
and
Scandals
.
This
then
being
clear
,
the
next
thing
to
be
enquired
is
,
who
the
Persons
were
who
were
commissioned
to
do
this
.
If
we
may
believe
Irenaeus
,
Eusebius
and
Tertullian
,
the
Apostles
singly
did
it
by
their
laying
on
of
hands
.
Thus
Polycarp
at
Smyrna
was
made
a
Bishop
by
Saint
John
,
thus
Euodius
at
Antioch
was
made
a
Bishop
by
Saint
Peter
,
and
thus
by
the
same
hands
were
Linus
,
Cletus
,
Clemens
Romanus
made
at
Rome
.
Nay
,
in
the
first
Chapter
of
the
second
Epistle
to
Timothy
▪
at
the
sixth
Verse
,
't
is
said
,
That
by
Saint
Paul's
hands
alone
this
Bishop
was
ordained
;
Stir
up
the
Gift
of
God
which
is
in
thee
,
sayes
the
Apostle
in
that
place
,
which
was
given
thee
by
the
putting
on
of
my
hands
.
Why
is
there
mention
made
then
in
this
Text
of
a
Presbytery
?
What
means
this
Presbytery
,
with
their
laying
on
of
hands
?
Do
you
not
wonder
,
holy
Fathers
,
that
the
same
Master
Calvin
,
who
took
this
Word
Presbytery
for
the
Office
of
an
Elder
,
should
from
the
same
Word
set
up
his
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
his
compounded
mixt
Presbytery
of
Spiritual
and
Lay-Elders
?
A
thing
of
which
Aërius
the
Heretick
never
dreamt
,
nor
did
Iscbyras
or
Colluthus
ever
receive
into
their
Fancy
.
Certainly
,
those
famous
Lights
and
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
Saint
Chrysostome
,
Theodoret
,
Theophylact
,
and
others
,
were
so
far
from
allowing
of
Lay-Elders
in
this
Work
,
that
they
would
not
allow
a
Presbyter
to
lay
hands
upon
a
Bishop
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Inferiour
Priests
assisted
not
at
this
higher
Consecration
.
'T
was
still
done
by
an
Apostle
,
or
by
some
other
Bishops
▪
at
least
by
two
or
three
,
say
the
Canons
called
Apostolick
.
Which
cleares
the
seeming
contradiction
between
this
Text
,
which
sayes
,
That
Timothy
was
ordained
by
the
hands
of
the
Presbytery
;
and
that
other
Text
2
Tim.
6.
which
sayes
,
That
Saint
Paul
ordained
him
by
his
laying
on
of
hands
:
Both
Texts
joyned
together
are
thus
fairly
reconciled
;
he
was
ordained
by
Saint
Paul
assisted
by
the
Bishops
,
called
here
the
Presbytery
or
Elders
on
the
place
.
And
now
,
holy
Fathers
,
if
you
will
heare
me
draw
your
Pedigree
from
the
Spring-head
downe
the
Streame
,
your
Order
and
the
Christian
Church
,
with
its
Religion
too
,
had
the
same
divine
Original
,
and
derives
it self
from
Heaven
;
God
sent
his
Sonne
,
his
Sonne
sent
Apostles
,
the
Apostles
made
Bishops
,
and
those
Bishops
made
their
Successors
:
And
all
this
by
one
and
the
same
authentick
Patent
,
As
my
Father
sent
me
,
so
send
I
you
,
sayes
Christ
in
the
20.
Chapter
of
Saint
John
,
at
the
21.
Verse
.
An
Order
which
hath
stood
out
all
the
Injuries
of
Time
,
Persecutions
of
the
Heathens
,
Opposition
of
Philosophers
,
Contradiction
of
Hereticks
,
even
all
the
Powers
of
Hell
,
which
have
strived
to
shake
it
by
their
violence
and
stormes
.
An
Order
which
hath
filled
our
Calendars
with
Saints
,
our
Histories
,
with
Fathers
,
Holy
Confessours
and
Martyrs
.
An
Order
which
is
promised
to
be
as
lasting
as
the
Sun
;
for
,
Lo
,
I
am
with
you
to
the
end
of
the
World
,
sayes
our
Saviour
Christ
the
Founder
of
your
Order
,
in
the
28.
Chapter
of
Saint
Matthew
,
at
the
last
Verse
.
Lastly
,
an
Order
in
our
English
Church
recovered
out
of
Ruines
,
made
glorious
after
Shipwreck
,
victorious
over
the
Rage
and
Sacrilege
of
those
who
raised
a
Storme
in
hope
to
enrich
themselves
with
Spoyles
.
In
short
,
an
Order
which
nothing
can
eclipse
,
endanger
or
expose
to
the
Malice
or
Designs
of
those
who
would
destroy
it
,
but
the
Negligence
or
want
of
care
in
those
whose
Order
'
t
is
.
Which
should
be
the
last
part
of
this
Text
,
exprest
to
us
in
these
words
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Do
not
neglect
your
Gift
.
But
this
being
a
piece
of
holy
Counsel
,
much
fitter
for
Saint
Paul
to
preach
out
of
this
Pulpit
to
Men
so
like
himself
,
then
for
me
so
much
inferiour
in
Gifts
and
Station
to
you
:
For
me
to
teach
a
Bishop
how
to
over-look
his
Charge
,
to
prescribe
him
Rules
of
Government
,
or
to
hold
a
Candle
to
him
in
his
laying
on
of
hands
,
or
Work
of
Ordination
;
for
me
to
instruct
him
how
to
admit
fit
Pastors
to
their
Cures
,
fit
Shepherds
to
their
Flocks
;
where
to
let
loose
his
holy
Thunders
,
and
to
call
them
back
againe
;
where
to
use
the
Rod
,
and
where
to
poure
in
Oyle
;
lastly
,
how
to
deport
himself
with
all
Gravity
in
publick
,
and
how
to
demeane
himself
with
all
Piety
at
home
,
would
be
an
undertaking
like
the
foolish
Orator's
in
Tully
,
who
in
a
Speech
to
Hannibal
taught
him
the
Art
of
War
;
for
which
by
that
great
Souldier
he
was
accounted
mad
.
Having
therefore
,
Reverend
Fathers
,
profest
my
Submission
and
Obedience
to
those
Rules
and
Orders
which
you
shall
prescribe
to
me
,
but
my
very
great
unfitnesse
to
preach
Lawes
and
Rules
to
you
;
I
hope
my
Modesty
will
gain
me
your
pardon
and
excuse
,
if
I
here
put
a
period
and
conclusion
to
this
Sermon
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A50418-e520
The
Division
.
The
Person
.
His
Qualification
.
His
Designation
.
The
form
of
his
Consecration
.
The
Conclusion
.