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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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Repl. O that we had the Primitive Episcopacy! and that Bishops had no more Churches to over-see than in the Primitive times they had, and then we would never speak against this reservation of Confirmation to the honour of the Bishop; but when that Bishop of one Church is turned into that Bishop of many hundred Churches, and when he is now a Bishop of the lowest rank, that was an Arch-bishop, when Archbishops first came up, and so we have not really existent any mere Bishops (such as the Ancients knew) at all, but only Archbishops and their Curates; marvel not if we would not have Confirmation proper to Archbishops, no one man undertake more than an hundred can perform; but if they will do it, there is no remedy, we have acquit our selves.
Repl. O that we had the Primitive Episcopacy! and that Bishops had no more Churches to over-see than in the Primitive times they had, and then we would never speak against this reservation of Confirmation to the honor of the Bishop; but when that Bishop of one Church is turned into that Bishop of many hundred Churches, and when he is now a Bishop of the lowest rank, that was an Arch-bishop, when Archbishops first came up, and so we have not really existent any meer Bishops (such as the Antients knew) at all, but onely Archbishops and their Curates; marvel not if we would not have Confirmation proper to Archbishops, no one man undertake more than an hundred can perform; but if they will do it, there is no remedy, we have acquit our selves.
Prayer after the Imposition of hands is grounded upon the practice of the Apostles,1 Heb▪ 62. & Acts 8. 17: nor doth 25 Article say, that Confirmation is a corrupt imitation of the Apostles practice, but that the 5 commonly called Sacraments, have ground partly of the corrupt following the Apostles, &c. which may be applied to some other of these 5. but cannot be applied to Confirmation, unless we make the Church speak Contradictions.