The English Ordinal
by MacKenzie Edward Charles Walcott (9780217076814)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE DIVINE VOCATION; AND PREPARATORY DUTIES. To prove the Divine institution of the Christian Ministry, and the immediate visible effect of Ordination, viz. a severance from the Laity of those who have received the sanction of God's authority, was the purpose of the preceding Chapter. The subject next to be considered, is the indispensable obligation which binds a man " diligently to try and examine himself" in private, as to his qualifications and motives, before he ventures to offer himself as a Candidate for any Holy Order in the Church. Such a previous duty, in all its details, is thus summed up by Bishop Beveridge. 1st. "Get the Form or Office of our Church, according to which you are to be ordained, and consider seriously what is there said concerning the dignity and difficulty of that Office, which you are now about to be admitted unto. Do not content and Instruction, which is there given you, but weigh every word and sentence in it; for there is nothing in it but what highly concerns you to understand and remember; for it is supposed that you have well weighed and pondered those things before you go to be ordained, and that you have clearly determined to apply yourselves unto that Office whereunto it hath pleased God to call you 2ndly. Consider seriously the several questions which in the name of God and His Church shall be put to you, when you come to be ordained, and do not resolve to give those answers to them, which the Church requires, before you have considered, whether you can really and in conscience do it Srdly. Search impartially into your hearts, and bethink you seriously, whether, by the Providence of God, and the assistance of His Holy Spirit, you are fitted and qualified for that Office, and sincerely desire to be admitted into it for no...

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