Welchman on Article XXXVI: Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers
Edward Welchman, 1790
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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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If any Thing be wanting in the Ordinations of the Church of England, the Form of which is prescribed in the Book here referred to, it must be either with respect to the Ordainers ; but these are Bishops : Or to the Manner of
Ordaining ; but this is the Imposition of Hands, with pro- :
per Prayers: Or to the Persons who are to be Ordained ; but these are examined and approved as to their Faith, Manners, and Knowledge; and on these is conferred the Power of doing all Things which belong to their Offices, There is therefore nothing wanting to make these Ordi- nations just and complete,
See As vi. be Whom they set before the Aboftles. And when they wy aj they laid their Hands on them, And As xiii. 3. And toben they had fastea and proyed, and laid their Hands on them, they sent them away. And 1 Tim. iv. 14. Negle#t not the Gift that is in thee, which was given thee by Prophecy, with the laying on of the Hands of the Presiytery. And 2 Tim. i. 6. Wherefore I put thee in Remembrance, that thou flir up the Gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of My Hands.
See also Mason de Minist. Anglic. Lib. 1. C. 16. Bedel”s Answer to Waddesworth, C. 11. Prideaux’s Fasc. Con- trov. C. 4. Sect. 3. Q. 7. Heooker’s Ecel. Pol. B. V. Sed 77, 78. A Vindication of the Ordination of the Ch. of England. Field of the Church, B. V. Ch. 56.
The Forms which the Primitive Churches made use of in consecrating the Clergy, are not now extant. But if the Reader consults the most ancient ones that are now to be met with, he will find nothing omitted by our Church, which was formerly required to make an Ordination
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