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Certain discourses, viz. of Babylon (Rev. 18. 4.) being the present See of Rome…
Certain discourses, viz. of Babylon (Rev. 18. 4.) being the present See of Rome (with a sermon of Bishop Beadles upon the same words) of laying on of hands (Heb. 6. 2.) to be an ordained ministry, of the old form of words in ordination, of a set form of prayer : each being the judgment of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland / published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard ... : unto which is added a character of Bishop Bedel, and an answer to Mr. Pierces fifth letter concerning the late Primate.Certain discourses, viz. of Babylon (Rev. 18. 4.) being the present See of Rome (with a sermon of Bishop Bedels upon the same words) of laying on of hands (Heb. 6. 2.) to be an ordained ministry, of the old form of words in ordination, of a set form of prayer : each being the judgment of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland / published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard ... : unto which is added a character of Bishop Bedel, and an answer to Mr. Pierces fifth letter concerning the late Primate.
London: printed for John Crook, 1659
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The like I say unto you the rest of my Lords, Fathers, and Brethren help your Friends, Followers, and Tenets out of Babylon, what you may in your places, you have the Examples, of Abraham, Joshua, Cornelius praised in Scripture for propagating the Knowledge and Fear of God in their Families and Commands with the report of Gods accepting it, and rewarding it, And this to the use of others.
The like I say unto you the rest of my Lords, Fathers, and Brethren help your Friends, Followers, and Tenents out of Babylon, what you may in your places, you have the Examples, of Abraham, Ioshua, Cornelius praysed in Scripture for propagating the Knowledge and Fear of God in their Families and Commands with the report of Gods accepting it, and rewarding it, And this to the use of others.
But shall you not carry away something for your selves also; Yes verily, take to your selves this Voice of our Saviour, Come out of Babylon; you will say we have done it already, God be thanked we are good Christians, good Protestants, some of us Preachers and that call up on others to come out of, 1Babylon; But if Saint Paul prayed the Converted Corinthians to be reconciled to God. And Saint John writing to Believers, ⟨p. 101⟩sets down the record of God touching his Son,2 That they might believe in the Name of the Son of God; why may not I Exhort in Christs Name and words, even those that are come out of Babylon, to come out of her, Qui monet ut facias, &c. He that persuades another to that which he doth already, in persuading encourageth him, and puts him on in his performance, but if there be any yet unresolved, and halting or hanging between two; (as the people did in Elijah time) That present their bodies3