Madan on Article XXXVI: Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers

Martin Madan, 1772

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Article XXXVI. Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers
The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the same time by authority of Parliament, doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordering: neither hath it any thing, that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. And therefore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book, since the second year of the forenamed King Edward unto this time, or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites; we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)

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liament, doth contain all Things necessary to such Con-

secration and Ordering; neither hath it any Thing that

of itself is super/litious and ungodly. And therefore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book, since the second Year of the fore- named King Edward, unto this Time, or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites, we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and

lawfully consecrated and ordered.

Three Things seem necessari:y to concur in the right ordering of Ministers. First, That they be called or moved inwardly of Gop to take upon them the Office. Heb. v. 4. No Man taketh this Honour to himself but he that is called of Gop, as was Aaron. See Art, XXIII. Note 1.

Secondly, That they be outwardly called and sent forth by Men having Authority thereunto. See Art, XXIII. Note 2.

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Prayer and Imposition of Hands. As vi. 6. It hom they set before the Aposties, and when they had razed they laid their Hands on them. See Art, XIII. Note 2. As the Book referred to in this Article proceeds on this Scriptural Plan, so the Conclusion, that „ wholoever are consectrated and ordered accord-

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