THE SERVICE EXECUTED BY JOHN COSIN, ARCHDEACON OF THE EAST RIDING IN YORK, THE SERMON BY HIM PREACHED. THE HYMNS AND PSALMS SUNG SOLEMNLY BY THE CHOICE OF THE KING'S QUIRE, WITH THOSE OF T. PAUL AND WESTMINSTER. THE COMMUNION SERVICE, AND THE CONSECRATION, EXECUTED BY THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. THE OFFERTORY SOLEMNLY MADE BY MORE THAN TWENTY PERSONS, BISHOPS, DOCTORS, AND THER DIVINES OF NOTE. [In January 1628-9, he was translated o Norwich, vacant by the promotion of amuel Harsnet to York, and in Dec. 8, 631, he was removed to Ely, where he died February, 1638.] [Of Bishop Neile, Cosin's early friend nd patron, a more minute account is given sewhere.] [Dr. John Buckridge elected Bishop of lochester, Dec. 29, 1610, was translated to Cly in 1628. He died May 23, 1631, and the 31st of the same month he was buried the parish church of Bromley in Kent.] [Theophilus Field, Bishop of Llandaff, was elected to the see of St. David's on the Wells in 1626. In 1635 he was translated to Hereford, where he died June 2, 1636.] e [Dr. William Murray, Bishop of Fenabore (?) in Ireland, succeeded to this bishopric on the removal of Dr. Field to the see of St. David's.] [Mary, daughter of Sir George Villiers of Brokesby, and sister to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham; see Collins' Peerage, ii. 252. ed. 1756, and Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 441.] [He accompanied Charles in his excursion to Spain. Heylin's Life of Laud, p. 97.] h [Henry Wickham, Archdeacon of the West Riding of York, was collated March SERMON VI. DOMINICA PRIMA ADVENTUS, DECEMBRIS 3, 1626, AT THE CONSECRATION Eur help standeth in the name of the Lord. ST. JOHN XX. 21, 22. Peace be unto you. As My Father sent Me, even so send I you. And when He had spoken these words, He breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Ghost; Whose sins you do remit they are remitted, &c. 1 you. Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent Me, even so send And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said unto them, Vhosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose- We are here this day about the consecration of a reverend Father, and St. Paul tells us in one place that we are about a good work; in another, that we are about an honourable 1 Tim.3.1. work; St. John in this place, that we are about Christ's own 1 Tim. 5. work. Which work is the solemn deriving of a sacred and 17. -hostly power upon the persons of the holy Apostles, for the se and benefit of Christ's Church ever after. We call it he Power of the Keys, and those keys, which, over and besides hem that are committed to the custody of a priest in his A [This is the only sermon to which Tosin has given notes and references to assages of Scripture. The additions made by the editor are inclosed within 19. VI. SER M. ordination, to bind a sinful and to loose a here given over, once for all, into the han key of order to send as Christ sent, and th tion to govern as He governed. A power Christ had kept, it seems, in His own ha Mat. 16. with it till now; promised it before, I will gi but gave them not till now; made His will i it not till now; gave them many a very fair l as we say, when He chose them to be Apostles them not livery and seisin yet, not jus in not into possession till now. And now He His hand and His seal for it; His own words spake here, As My Father sent Me, so send I will believe Him,) and then His own Spirit Eph. 4. 30. estis, saith St. Paul, to make His word good His saying, 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' That if any the new Pharisees of our tim the people, shall put the question to us, as they Mat.21.23. and ask us, 'By what authority do ye these t gave you this authority?' we will also ask th and let them answer us. This same sic and s they spell it? Can they tell what as and so m can, let them answer themselves. For we say, with the consent of all, that this privy-warrant of ordering and of sending bisE Church, that here it is first found, and here foun that to this very place we reduce the whole pr Church for these fifteen hundred years and t practice of the holy Apostles themselves, so ofte in Scripture, a man would think, of purpose to how they understood this place; that of the Acts posuit vos episcopos, over which the Holy Ghos Acts 20.28. you bishops,' and, 'his bishopric let another man Acts 1. 20. again, that of St. Paul to Timothy, 'Stir up the 2 Tim. 1.6. in thee, by the imposition of my hands,' and hands suddenly on no man,' that to Titus, 'for Tit. 1. 5. have I set thee, that thou shouldest ordain pries this head. For do but ask them what text the 1 Tim. 5. 22. |