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The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by His M… › CONFIRMATION. › Section
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
[Before the imposition of hands, &c.] Confirmation is reserved to the 1Bishop, in honorem Ordinis; To bless, being an Act of Authority; so was it of old. St. Hierom, Dialog. Adv. Lucifer. says, it was totius orbis consensio 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. Hierom argues the quite contray, 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 the 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, &c.] Confirmation is reserved to the 1Bishop, in honorem Ordinis; To blesse, being an Act of Authority; so was it of old. St. Hierom, Dialog. Adv. Lucifer. saies, it was totius orbis consensio in hanc partem. And St. Cyprian to the same purpose, Ep. 73. And our Church doth every where professe, as she ought, to conform to the Catholick usages of the Primitive times; from which causelesly 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. Hierom argues the quite contray, 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 the greatest value; The mercy of God allowing the most necessary means of Salvation, to be administred by inferiour Orders, and restraining the lesse necessary, to the higher, for the honour of their Order.]