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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › CONFIRMATION.
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[Before the Imposition of hands,1 &c.) Confirmation is reserved to the Bishop, in honorem ordinis to bless, being an act of Authority, so was it of old. St. Hierome Dialog. adv. Lucifer, says it was, Totius-Orbis-consentio in hanc partem; and St. Cyprian to the same purpose, Ep. 73. and our Church doth every where profess, as she ought to conform to the Catholic usages of the Primitive times, from which causelessly to depart, argues rather love of contention, than of peace. The reserving of Confirmation to the Bishop, doth argue the Dignity of the Bishop above Presbyters, who are not allowed to Confirm, but does not argue any excellency in Confirmation above the Sacraments: St. Hierome argues the quite contrary, ad Lucif. Cap. 4. That because Baptism was allowed to be performed by a Deacon, but Confirmation only by a Bishop; therefore Baptism was most necessary, and of greatest value; the mercy of God allowing the most necessary means of Salvation to be administered by inferior orders, and restraining the less necessary to the higher, for the honour of their order.]
[Before the Imposition of hands,1 &c.) Confirmation is reserved to the Bishop, in honorem ordinis to bless, being an act of Authority, so was it of old. St. Hierome Dialog. adv. Lucifer, says it was, Totius-Orbis-consentio in hanc partem; and St. Cyprian to the same purpose, Ep. 73. and our Church doth every where profess, as she ought to conform to the Catholick usages of the Primitive times, from which causlesly to depart, argues rather love of contention, than of peace. The reserving of Confirmation to the Bishop, doth argue the Dignity of the Bishop above Presbyters, who are not allowed to Confirm, but does not argue any excellency in Confirmation above the Sacraments: St. Hierome argues the quite contrary, ad Lucif. Cap. 4. That because Baptism was allowed to be performed by a Deacon, but Confirmation onely by a Bishop; therefore Baptism was most necessary, and of greatest value; the mercy of God allowing the most necessary means of Salvation to be administred by inferior orders, and restraining the less necessary to the higher, for the honour of their order.]
- 1Sect▪ 5. p. •0 Rubr.