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which he ought not to be received into this holy Ministry, let him come forth in the name of God, and show what the crime or impediment is.

And if any great Crime or Impediment be objected, the Bishop shall cease from Ordering that Person, until such time as the Party accused shall be found clear of

that Crime.

them, because they fainted, and were seattered abroad as sheep having no shep herd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the la bourers are few: Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

Or else this that followeth, out of the tenth Chapter of Saint John.

St. John x. 1.

Then the Bishop (commending such as shall be found meet to be Ordered, to the Prayers of the Congregation) shall, with VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the Clergy and People present, say the the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some Litany, with the Prayers as is before up- other way, the same is a thief and a robpointed in the Form of Ordering Dea-ber. But he that entereth in by the door, cons; save only, that in the proper suffrage there added, the word Deacons shall be omitted, and the word Priests inserted instead of it.

Then shall be said the Service for the Communion, with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, as followeth.

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The Collect.

LMIGHTY God, giver of all good things, who by thy Holy Spirit hast appointed divers orders of Ministers in the Church; mercifully behold these thy servants now called to the Office of Priesthood; and so replenish them with the truth of thy Doctrine, and adorn then with innocency of life, that both by word and good example they may faithfully serve thee in this Office, to the glory of thy name, and the edification of thy Church, through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, world without end.

Amen.

The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 7. UNTO every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended, is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some Pastors and Teachers, for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the Ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ; till we all come, in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

After this shall be read for the Gospel,

is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of stran gers. This parable spake Jesus unto them, but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly: I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth his life

for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the Shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep, The hireling fleeth because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice. and there shall be one fold,and one Shepherd,

Then the Bishop shall say unto them as followeth.

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have heard, brethren, as well in

your private examination, as in the part of the ninth Chapter of Saint exhortation which was now made to you Matthew, as followeth. and in the holy lessons taken out of the Gospel, and the writings of the Apostles of what dignity, and of how great impo tance this office is, whereunto ye are calle:

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St. Matt. ix. 36.

THEN Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on

And now again we exhort you, in the, name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye have in remembrance, into how high a dignity, and to how weighty an office and charge ye are called: That is to say, to be Messengers, Watchmen, and Stewards of the Lord; to teach, and to premonish, to feed and provide for the Lord's family; to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad, and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever.

Have always therefore printed in your remembrance, how great a treasure is committed to your charge. For they are the sheep of Christ,which he bought with his death, and for whom he shed his blood. The Church and Congregation whom you must serve, is his Spouse, and his Body. And if it shall happen that the same Church, or any member thereof, do take any hurt or hindrance by reason of your negligence, ye know the greatness of the fault, and also the horrible punishment that will ensue. Wherefore consider with yourselves the end of the ministry, towards the Children of God, towards the Spouse and Body of Christ; and see that ye never cease your labour, your care and diligence, until ye have done all that lieth in you, according to your bouncken duty, to bring all such as are or shall be

set aside, as much as ye may, all worldly cares and studies.

We have good hope that ye have well weighed these things with yourselves long before this time; and that ye have clearly determined, by God's grace, to give yourselves wholly to this Office, whereunto it hath pleased God to call you: so that, as much as lieth in you, ye will apply yourselves wholly to this one thing,and draw all your cares and studies this way; and that ye will continually pray to God the Father, by the mediatiou of our only Saviour Jesus Christ, for the heavenly assistance of the Holy Ghost; that by daily reading and weighing the Scriptures, ye may wax riper and stronger in your Ministry; and that ye may so endeavour yourselves from time to time to sanctify the lives of you and yours. and to fashion them after the rule and doctrine of Christ, that ye may be wholesome and godly examples and patterns for the people two follow.

And now, that this present Congregation of Christ may also understand your minds and wills in these things, and that this your promise may the more move you to do your duties; ye shall answer plainly to these things, which we, in the name of God, and of his Church, shall demand of you touching the sang.

mited to your charge, unto that agree-D

ment in the faith and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and perfectness of age in Christ, that there be no place left among you, either for error in religion, or for viciousness in life.

are truly called, according to the

O you think in your heart, that you will of our Lord Jesus Christ, and accord ing to the Canons of this Church, to the Order and Ministry of Priesthood? Answer. I think it.

The Bishop.

Forasmuch then as your Office is both of so great excellency, and of so great A seriptures contain all Doctrine reRE you persuaded that the holy difficulty, ye see with how great care and study ye ought to apply yourselves, as well quired as necessary for eternal salvation to show yourselves dutiful and thank-through faith in Jesus Christ? and are fal unto that Lord who hath placed you in so high a dignity; as also to beware that neither you yourselves offend, nor be occasion that others offend. Howbeit ye cannot have a mind and will thereto of yourselves; for that will and ability is given of God alone: therefore ye ought, and have need to pray earnestly for his Holy Spirit. And seeing that ye cannot by any other means compass the doing of

you determined, out of the said Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge, and to teach nothing, as ne cessary to eternal salvation, but that which you shall be persuaded, may be concluded and proved by the Scripture?

Answer. I am so persuaded, and have so determined, by God's grace.

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The Bishop.

you then give your faithful diligence, always so to minister vation of man, but with doctrine and ex- the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the hortation taken out of the holy Scrip-discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath comtures, and with a life agreeable to the manded, and as this Church hath received same; consider how studious ye ought to the same, according to the commandbe in reading and learning the Scrip- ments of God; so that you may teach the tures, and in framing the manners both people committed to your cure and of yourselves, and of them that special- charge, with all diligence to keep and obly pertain unto you, according to the rule serve the same? of the same Scriptures; and for this self same cause, how ye ought to forsake and

Answer. I will so do, by the help of the Lord.

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WILL, you be ready with all faithful

diligence to banish and drive away from the Church all erroneous and

strange doctrines contrary to God's word;

and to use both public and private monitions and exhortations, as well to the sick as the whole within your cures, as need shall require, and occasion shall be given Answer. I will, the Lord being my helper.

The Bishop. W in reading the holy Scriptures, and ILL you be diligent in prayers, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?

Answer. I will endeavour so to do, the Lord being my helper.

The Bishop.

W fashion your own selves, and your TILL you be diligent to frame and

families, according to the Doctrine of

Spiritus; the Bishop beginning, and the Priests and others that are present an szvering by verses, as followeth.

COME, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,

And lighten with celestial fire:
Thou the anointing Spirit art,
Who dost thy sevenfold gifts imparts
Thy blessed Unction from above,
Enable with perpetual light
Is comfort, life, and fire of love.
The dulness of our blinded sight:
Anoint and cheer our soiled face
With the abundance of thy grace:
Keep far our foes, give peace at home;
Where thou art Guide, no ill can come.
Teach us to know the Father, Son

And Thee, of both to be but One
That through the ages all along,
This may be our endless song;
Praise to thy eternal merit,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
¶ Or this:

Christ; and to make both yourselves and COME, Holy Ghost, eternal God,

them, as much as in you lieth, wholesome examples and patterns to the flock of Christ?

Answer. I will apply myself thereto, the Lord being my helper.

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The Bishop.

ILL you maintain and set forwards, as much as lieth in you, quietness, peace, and love among all Christian people, and especially among them that are or shall be committed to your charge? Answer. I will do so, the Lord being my helper.

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The Bishop.

TILL you reverently obey your Bishop, and other chief Ministers, who, according to the Canons of the Church, may have the charge and government over you; following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions, and submitting yourselves to their godly judgments?

Answer. I will so do, the Lord being my helper.

Then shall the Bishop, standing up, say, ALMIGHTY God, wall these things, you this will to do all these things, grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same; that he may accomplish his work which he hath begun in you,through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. After this, the Congregation shall be desired, secretly in their prayers, to make their humble supplications to God for all these things: for the which prayers there shall be silence kept for a space.

After which, shall be sung or said by the
Bishop, the persons to be ordained
Priests all kneeling, Veni, Creator

Proceeding from above,
Both from the Father and the Son,
The God of peace and love;
Visit our minds, into our hearts
Thy heavenly grace inspire;
That truth and godliness we may.
Pursue with full desire.
Thou art the very Comforter

In grief and all distress;
The heavenly gift of God most High
No tongue cun it express;
The fountain and the living spring
Of joy celestial;

The fire so bright, the love so sweet,
The Unction Spiritual.
Tirou in thy gifts art manifold,

By them Christ's Church doth stand In faithful hearts thou writ'st thy law The finger of God's hand. According to thy promise, Lord,

Thou givest speech with grace; That, through thy help, God's praises mag Resound in every place.

O Holy Ghost, into our minds

Kindle our hearts with fercent zeal,
Send down thy heavenly light;

Our weakness strengthen and confirm,
To serve God day and night:
That neither devil, world, nor flesh
For, Lord, thou know'st us frail

Put back our enemies far from us,
Against us may prevail.

And help us to obtain
Peace in our hearts with God and man,
The best, the truest gain;
And grant that thou being, O Lord
Our leader and our guide,
We

may escape the snares of sin, And never from thee slide. Such measures of thy powerful grace Grant Lord to us, we pray;

That thou may'st be our Comforter

At the last dreadful day.

Of strife and of dissention
Dissolve, O Lord, the bands,
And knit the knots of peace and love
Throughout all Christian lands.
Grant us the grace that we may know
The Father of all might,
That we of his beloved Son,
May gain the blissful sight;
And that we may with perfect faith
Ever acknowledge thee,
The Spirit of Father, and of Son,
One God in Persons Three.

To God the Father laud and praise,
And to his blessed Son,
And to the Holy Spirit of Grace,
Co-equal Three in One.
And pray we, that our only Lord
Would please his Spirit to send
On all that shall profess his name,
From hence to the world's end. Amen.

That done, the Bishop shall
rvise, and say,

Let us pray.

pray in this

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severally upon the head of every one that receiveth the order of Priesthood; the Receivers humbly kneeling, and the Bishop saying,

ECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the

Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands: whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven: and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained: And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the word of God, and of his holy Sacraments: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Or this:

TAKE thou Authority to execute the

office of a Priest in the Church of God now committed to thee by the imposition of our hands; and be thou a faithful Dispenser of the word of God, and of his holy Sacraments: In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Then the Bishop shall deliver to every one of them kneeling, the Bible into his hand, saying,

unto.

When this is done, the Bishop shall go on in the Service of the Communion, which all they who receive Orders shall tuke together, and remain in the same place where hunds were laid upon them. until such time as they have received the Communion.

The Communion being done, after the last Collect, and immediately before the Benediction, shall be said this Collect.

[OST merciful Father, we beseech

goodness towards us, hast given to us thyAKE thon Authority to preach the only and most dearly beloved Son Jesus word of God, and to minister the hoChrist, to be our Redeemer, and the Au-ly Sacraments in the Congregation where thor of everlasting life; who after he had thou shalt be lawfully appointed there made perfect our redemption by his death, and was ascended into heaven,sentabroad into the world his Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Doctors, and Pastors; by whose labour and Ministry he gathered together a great Flock in all the parts of the world, to set forth the eternal praise of thy holy name: For these so great benefits of thy eternal goodness, and for T that thou hast vouchsafed to call these thy servants here present to the same Office and Ministry appointed for the salvation of mankind, we render unto thee most hearty thanks, we praise and worship thee; and we humbly beseech thee by the same thy blessed Son, to grant unto all, which either here or elsewhere call upon thy holy name, that we may continue.to show ourselves thankful unto thee for these and all thy other benefits; and that they shall deliver out of thy most holy we may daily increase and go forwards word, or agreeably to the same, as the in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy means of our salvation; that in all our Son, by the Holy Spirit: So that as well words and deeds we may seek thy glory, by these thy Ministers, as by them over and the increase of thy kingdom, through whom they shall be appointed thy Min- Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. isters, thy holy name may be for ever HE peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts larged, through the same thy Son Jesus and minds in the knowledge and love of Christ our Lord; who liveth and reigneth God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our with thee in the unity of the same Holy Lord: And the blessing of God AlmighSpirit, world without end. Amen. ty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy When this prayer is done, the Bishop with Ghost, be amongst you and remain with the Priests present, shall lay their hands you ways. Amen.

M thee to send upon these thy servants, thy heavenly blessing; that they may be clothed with righteousness, and that thy word spoken by their mouths may have such success, that it may never be spoken in vain. Great also, that we grace to hear and receive what

may have

glorified, and thy blessed kingdom en- THE

And if, on the same day, the Order of Deacons be given to some, and the Order of Priesthood to others; the Deacons shall be first presented, and then the Priests; and it shall suffice,that the Litany be once said for both. The Collects shall both be used; first, that for Deacons, then that for Priests. The Epistle shall be Ephesiaus iv. to 13, as before in this fict. Immediately after which, they that are to be made Deacons, shall be examined, and ordained, as is above prescribed. Then one of them having read the Gospel, which shall be either out of Saint Matthew ix. 36, as before in this office; or else Saint Luke xii. 35 to 38, as before in the form for the Ordering of Deacons, they that are to be made Priests, shall likewise be examined, and ordained, as is in this office before appointed,

THE FORM OF

Ordaining or Consecrating a Bishop.

¶ When all things are duly prepared in the Church, and set in order, after Morning Prayer is ended, the Presiding Bishop, or some other Bishop appointed by the Bishops present, shall begin the Communion Service, in which this shall be

The Collect.

sons, serving the Lord with all humility

ALMIGHTY God, who by thy Son Je- of mind, and with many tears and tempsus Christ didst give to thy holy tations, which befel me by the lying in Apostles many excellent gifts, and didst wait of the Jews: And how I kept back charge them to feed thy flock; give nothing that was profitable unto you, but grace, we beseech thee, to all Bishops, have showed you, and have taught you the Pastors of thy Church, that they may publicly, and from house to house, testidiligently preach thy word, and duly ad-fying both to the Jews, and also to the minister the godly discipline thereof; and grant to the People, that they may obediently follow the same; that all may receive the crown of everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

And another Bishop shall read The Epistle. 1 Tim. iii. 1. Tthe office of a Bishop, he desireth THIS is a true saying, If a man desire

Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound in the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, nei and the mistry which I have received ther count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy,

good work. A Bishopthen must be blamefess, the husband of one wife, vigilant, of the Lord Jesus; to testify the Gospel sober, of good behaviour, given to hospi- I know that ye all, among whom I have of the grace of God. And now, behold, tality, apt to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but pa- gone preaching the kingdom of God, Wherefore tient, not a brawler, not covetous; one I take you to record this day, that I am shall see my face no more. that ruleth well his own house, having pure from the blood of all men: For I his children in subjection with all gravi- have not shunned to declare unto you all ty, for if a man know not how to rule the counsel of God. Take heed, therehis own house, how shall he take care of

the Church of God? not a novice, lest fore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock, being lifted up with pride he fall into over the which the Holy Ghost hath the condemnation of the devil. More-made you overseers, to feed the Church over he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach, and the snare of the devil.

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TOr this: For the Epistle.

Acts xx. 17.

ROM Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus, and called the Elders of the Church. And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all sea

of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise,speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one, night and day, with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to

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