The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Worthy Communicant ...
The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Worthy Communicant ...
Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, Charles Page Eden, Alexander Taylor
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The consequent of this consideration is this. If bishops were those upon whose ministry Christ founded and built His church, let us consider what great wisdom is required of them that ' seem to be pillars :' the stewards of Christ's family must be wise ; that Christ requires : and if the order be necessary to the Church, wisdom can- ••f chap. xiii. 14.] •» Lib. iii. tit 1. [aL h«r. Ixv. § 5.- Matt. XX. 27. J lib. i torn. 1. p. 908. J Digitized by Google 320 A CONSBCEATION SERMON [SBRM. not but ...be necessary to the order; for it is a shame if they who by their office are fathers in Christy shall by their unskilfolness be but babes themselves^ understanding not the secrets of religion, the mys- teries of godliness, the perfections of the evangelicsl law, all the advantages and disadvantages in the spiritual life. A bishop must be ' exercised in godliness/ a man of great experience in the secret conduct of souls, not satisfied with an ordinary skill in making homilies to the people, and speaking common exhortations in ordi- nary cases, but ready to answer in all secret enquiries, and ^ able to convince the gainsayers/ and to ^ speak wisdom amongst them that are perfect/ If the first bishops laid the foundation, their successors must not only preserve whatsoever is fundamental, but build up the church in a most holy faith, taking care that no heresy sap the foundation, and that no hay or rotten wood be built upon it; and above all things, that a most holy life be superstructed upon a holy and unreprovable faith.
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