The word inspiration also expresses that ordinary operation of the Spirit, by which men are inwardly moved and excited both to will and to do such things as are pleasing to God, and through which all the powers of their minds are elevated, purified, and invigorated. “There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.” (Job xxxii. 8.) In this latter sense the term and its kindred verb frequently appear in the offices of the Church; as in the petitions, “Grant, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that are good;” “Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit;” “Beseeching thee to inspire continually the universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord;” and
“Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire;”
“Visit our minds, into our hearts
Thy heavenly grace inspire.”
INSTALLATION. The act of giving visible possession of his office to a canon or prebendary of a cathedral, by placing him in his stall. It is also applied to the placing of a bishop in his episcopal throne in his cathedral church; enthronization being said to be proper to archbishops only; but this appears a technical and unreal distinction invented in the middle ages.
The installation of the Knights of the Garter is a religious ceremony, performed in the Chapel of St. George, at Windsor. (See Ashmole’s Institution of the Order of the Garter.) Those of the Knights of the Bath in Henry VII.’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and of the Knights of St. Patrick in the Cathedral of St. Patrick’s in Dublin, are, according to the statutes of the orders, conducted upon the same model.
INSTITUTION. The act by which the bishop commits to a clergyman the cure of a church.
Canon 40. “To avoid the detestable sin of simony, every archbishop, bishop, or other person having authority to admit, institute, or collate, to any spiritual or ecclesiastical function, dignity, or benefice, shall, before every such admission, institution, or collation, minister to every person to be admitted, instituted, or collated, the oath against simony.”
The following papers are to be sent to the bishop by the clergyman, who is to be instituted or collated:—