these thy servants now called to the like,

Administration; so

you

The Bishop. think that you are truly called,

theme with the truth of thy Doctrine, and D according to the will of our Lord

adorn them with innocency of life, that both Jesus Christ, and according to the Canons by word and good example they may faith-of this Church, to the Ministry of the same? fully serve thee in this Office, to the glory Answer. I think so. of thy name, and the edification of thy The Bishop.

Church, through the merits of our Saviour Do you unfeignedly believe all the Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Canonical Scriptures of the Old and thee and the Holy Ghost, now and for ever. New Testament?

Amen.

The Epistle. 1 Tim. iii. 8. IKEWISE must the Deacons be

Answer. I do believe them.
The Bishop.

diligently the same

La grave, not double-tongued, not given W unto the people assembled in the

Answer. I will.

The Bishop.

to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Church where you shall be appointed to holding the mystery of the faith in a pure serve? conscience. And let these also first be proved; then let them use the Office of a Deacon, being found blameless. Even so Tappertaineth to the office of a Deacon, must their wives be grave, not slanderers, in the Church where he shall be ap sober, faithful in all things. Let the Dea-pointed to serve, to assist the Priest in cons be the husbands of one wife, ruling Divine Service, and specially when ne their Children and their own Houses well. ministereth the Holy Communion, ard to For they that have used the Office of a help him in the distribution thereof; and Deacon well, purchase to themselves a to read holy Scriptures and Homilies in good degree, and great boldness in the farth which is in Christ Jesus. Or else this, out of the sixth Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Acts vi. 2.

the Church; and to instruct the Youth in
the Catechism; in the absence of the
Priest to baptize Infants; and to preach,
if he he admitted thereto by the Bishop.
And furthermore, it is his Office, where
provision is so made, to search for the sick,
poor, and impotent people of the Parish
to intimate their estates, names, and places
where they dwell, unto the Curate, that
by his exhortation they may be relieved
with the alins of the Parishioners, or others:
Will you do this gladly and willingly?

Answer. I will so do by the help of God
The Bishop.

THEN HEN the Twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, -full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the Word: And the WILL you apply all your diligence to saying pleased the whole multitude. And frame and fashion your own lives, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith the lives of your families, according to the and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Doctrine of Christ; and to make both your Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and selves and them, as much as in you lieth, Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of An-wholesome examples of the flock of Christ? tioch: whom they set before the Apostles; Answer. I will so do, the Lord being and when they had prayed, they laid their my helper. hands on them. And the word of God in

creased, and the number of the disciples W

The Bishop.

TILL you reverently obey your BImultiplied in Jerusalem greatly, and a shop, and other chief Ministers, who, great company of the Priests were obe-according to the Canons of the Church, dient to the faith. may have the charge and government over you; following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions?

¶ Then shall the Bishop examine every one of those who are to be Ordered, in the presence of the People, after this manner following:

D O vou trust that you are inwardly

moved by the Holy Ghost to take apon you this Office and Ministration, to serve God for the promoting of his glory, and the edifying of his people? Answer. I trust so.

Answer. 1 will endeavour so to do, the Lord being my helper.

Then the Bishop, laying his Hands
severally upon the Head of every one
of them humbly kneeling before him,
shall say,

TAKE Thou Authority to execute the
Office of a Deacon in the Church of

God committed unto thee; In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Then shall the Bishop deliver to every one of them the New Testament, saying,

Then one of them appointed by the
Bishop shall read,

thy Servants unto the Office of Deacons in thy Church; make them, we beseech thee, O Lord, to be modest, humble, and constant in their Ministration, to have a ready will to observe all spiritual Discipline; that they having always the testimony of a good AKE thou Authority to read the Gos-conscience, and continuing ever stable and TAR pel in the Church of God, and to strong in thy Son Christ, may so well bepreach the same, if thou be thereto licens- have themselves in this inferior Office, that ed by the Bishop himself. they may be found worthy to be called unto the higher Ministries in thy Church, through the same thy Son our Saviour The Gospel. St. Luke xii. 35. Jesus Christ; to whom be glory and honour, ET your loins be girded about, and world without end. Amen. your lights burning, and ye yourselves THE peace of God, which passeth all like unto men that wait for their Lord, understanding, keep your hearts and when he will return from the wedding; minds in the knowledge and love of God, that when he cometh and knocketh, they and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: may open unto him immediately. Blessed And the blessing of God Almighty, the are those servants whom the Lord when Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be he cometh shall find watching: Verily I amongst you, and remain with you always. say unto you, That he shall gird himself, Amen. and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

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hood Fes after due examination, we find not to the contrary, but that they are law fuily called to their Function and Ministry, and that they are persons meet for the same. But yet if there be any of you, who knoweth any impediment or notable

fect wan, unto the measure of the stature
of the fulness of Christ.

After this shall be read for the Gospel,
part of the ninth Chapter of Saint
Matthew, as followeth.
St. Matt. ix. 36.

cune in any of them, for the which he WHEN Jesus saw the multitudes, he ought not to be received into this holy Min W was moved with compassion on astry, let him come forth in the name of them, because they fainted, and were scatGod, and show what the crime or impedi-tered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few: Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labour. ers into his harvest.

ment is.

Or else this that followeth, out of the
tenth Chapter of Saint John.
St. John x. 1.

And if any great Crime or Impediment be objected, the Bishop shall cease from Ordering that Person, until such time as the Party accused shall be found clear of that Crime. Then the Bishop (commending such as shall be found meet to be Ordered, to the Prayers of the Congregation) E VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He shall, with the Clergy and People pre- that entereth not by the door into the sent, say the Litany, with the Prayers sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other as is before appointed in the Form of way, the same is a thief and a robber. Ordering Deacons ; save only, that in But he that entereth in by the door, is the the proper suffrage there added, the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter word Deacons shall be omitted, and the word Priests inserted instead of it. Then shall be said the Service for the Communion, with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, as followeth.

The Collect.

openeth, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he puttetb forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not A LMIGHTY God, giver of all good follow, but will flee from him; for they things, who by thy holy Spirit hast know not the voice of strangers. This par appointed divers Orders of Ministers in the able spake Jesus unto them, but they unChurch; mercifully behold these thy ser- derstood not what things they were which wants now called to the Office of Priest- he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto hood; and so replenish them with the truth them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, of thy Doctrine, and adorn them with in- I am the door of the sheep. All that ever nocency of life, that both by word and good came before me are thieves and robbers, example they may faithfully serve thee in but the sheep did not hear thein. I am this Office, to the glory of thy name, and the door; by me if any man enter in, he the edification of thy Church, through the shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who find pasture. The thief cometh not but Iveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I Ghost, world without end. Amen.

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am come that they might have life, and The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 7. that they might have it more abundantly: INTO every one of us is given grace I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepaccording to the measure of the gift herd giveth his life for the sheep. But he of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he that is an hireling, and not the Shepherd, ascended up on high, he led captivity cap- whose own the sheep are not, seeth the tive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and he ascended, what is it but that he also fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and descended first into the lower parts of the scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth earth? He that descended, is the same also because he is an hireling, and careth not that ascended up far above all heavens, for the sheep. I am the good Shepherd, that he might fill all things.) And he gave and know my sheep, and am known of some Apostles, and some Prophets, and mine. As the Father knoweth me, even Rome Evangelists, and some Pastors and so know I the Father: and I lay down Teachers, for the perfecting of the Saints, my life for the sheep. And other sheep I for the work of the Ministry, for the edi- have, which are not of this fold; them also fying of the Body of Christ; till we all I must bring, and they shall hear my come, in the unity of the faith and of the voice: and there shall be one foid, and knowledge of the Son of God, unto a per-'one Shepherd.

Then the Bishop shall say unto them the salvation of man, but with doctrine and

Y

as followeth.

E have heard, brethren, as well in your private examination, as in the exhortation which was now made to you, and in the holy lessons taken out of the Gospel, and the writings of the Apostles, of what dignity, and of how great importance this office is, whereunto ye are called And now again we exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye have in remembrance, into how high a dignity, and to how weighty an office and charge ye are called: That is to say, to be Messengers, Watchmen, and Stewards of the Lord; to teach, and to premonish, to feed and provide for the Lord's family; to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad, and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be saved through Christ for ever.

exhortation taken out of the holy Scriptures, and with a life agreeable to the same; consider how studious ye ought to be in reading and learning the Scriptures, and in framing the manners both of yourselves, and of them that specially pertain unto you, according to the rule of the same Scriptures; and for this self-same cause, how ye ought to forsake and set aside, as much as ye may, all worldly cares and studies. We have good hope that ye have well weighed these things with yourselves long before this time; and that ye have clearly determined, by God's grace, to give your selves wholly to this Office, whereunto it hath pleased God to call you: so that, as much as lieth in you, ye will apply yourselves wholly to this one thing, and draw all your cares and studies this way; and that ye will continually pray to God the Have always therefore printed in your Father, by the mediation of our only Saremembrance, how great a treasure is com-viour Jesus Christ, for the heavenly assistmitted to your charge. For they are the ance of the Holy Ghost; that by daily sheep of Christ, which he bought with his reading and weighing the Scriptures, ve death, and for whom he shed his blood. may wax riper and stronger in your Minis The Church and Congregation whom you try; and that ye may so endeavour your must serve, is his Spouse, and his Body.selves from time to time to sanctify the And if it shall happen that the same Church, lives of you and yours, and to fashion them or any member thereof, do take any hurt after the rule and doctrine of Christ, that or hinderance by reason of your negli-ye may be wholesome and godly examples gence, ye know the greatness of the fault, and patterns for the people to follow. and also the horrible punishment that will And now, that this present Congregation ensue. Wherefore consider with your-of Christ may also understand your minds selves the end of the ministry towards and wills in these things, and that this your the children of God, towards the Spouse promise may the more move you to dɔ and body of Christ; and see that ve never your duties; ye shall answer plainly to cease your labour, your care and diligence, these things, which we, in the name of God, antil ye have done all that heth in you, and of his Church, shall demand of you according to your bonden duty, to bring touching the same. all such as are or shall be committed to

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trnie and Sacraments, and the discipline of; plish his work which he hath begun in you, * Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. as this Church hath received the same, ac- " After this, the Congregation shall be cording to the commandments of God; so desired, secretly in their prayers, to that you may teach the people committed make their humble supplications to to your cure and charge, with all diligence God for all these things for the which to keep and observe the same?

prayers there shall be silence kept for Answer. I will so do, by the help of the a space. Lord.

9 After which, shall be sung or said hy The Bishop.

the Bishop, the persons to be ordained

Priests all kneeling, Veni, Creator Will you be ready with all faithful

diligence to banish and drive away Spiritus ; the Bishop beginning, and from the Church all erroneous and strange

the Priest and others that are present doctrines contrary to God's word; and to

answering by verses, as followeth. use both public and private monitions and COME Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, exhortations, as well to the sick as the And lighten celestial whole within your cures, as need shall

Thou the anointing spirit art, quire, and occasion shall be given?

Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart: Answer. I will, the Lord being my is comfort, life, and fire of love :

Thy blessed Vaction from above, helper. The Bishop:

Enable with perpetual light TILL you be diligeni in prayers, and 7'he dulness of our blinded sight : in such studies as help to the knowledge of With the abundance of thy grace: the same, saying aside the study of the Keep far our foes, give peace at home; world and the flesh?

Where thou art Guide, no ill can come,
Anstver. I will endeavour so to do, the Teach us to know the Father, Son,
Lord being my helper.

And Thee, of both to be but One
The Bishop.

That through the ages

all

along, gent to frame and This may be our endless song; fashion your own selves, and your

Praise to tly eternal merit, familie, according to the Doctrine of Christ; Fulher, Son, and Holy Spirit. and to make both yourselves and them, as

s Or this: much as in you beth, wholesome examples COME Holy Ghost

, eternal God and flock of Christ

Proceeding
Answer. I will apply myself thereto, Both from the Father and the Son,
the Lord being my helper.

The God of peace and love;
The Bishop.

Visit our minds, into our hearts

Thy heavenly grace inspire; as much as liech in you, quietness, Pursue with

full desire. peace, and love among all Christian pro- Thou art the very Comforter ple, and especially among them that are or shall be committed to your charge?

In grief and all distress; Answer. I will so do, the Lord' being No tongue can it express ;

The heavenly gift of God wost Higk; my helper.

The fountain and the living spring
The Bishop
you reveren:ly, shey your Bi- The fire so bright, the love so sweet,

of joy celestial;
shop, and other chief Ministers, who The Unction

spiritual. according to the Canons of the Church, Thou in thy gifts art manifold, inay have the charge and government over By them Christ's Church doth stand: you; following with a glad mind and will In faithful hearts thou writ'st thy leroy ibeir godly admonitions, and submitting the finger of God's hand. yourselves to their godly judgments? Answer. I will so do, the Lurd being According to thy promise, Lord,

Thou givest speech with my helper.

grace;

That, through thy help, God's praises 1 Then shall the Bishop, standing up, may say,

Resound in every place. you this will to do all these things, Send down thy heavenly light; grant also unto you strength and power to Kinulle our hearts with fervent zeala perform the fame ; that he may accom- To seymur God day and night:

WILL you be

WILL , wé may

WILL