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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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And let it be spoken with as little ⟨p. 102⟩offence as it is delight, We that seem to be the forwardest in Reformation, are not yet so come out of Babylon, as we have not many shameful Badges of her Captivity, witness her Impropriations, being indeed plain Church-robbery, devised to maintain her Colonies of idle and irregular Regulars, Idle to the Church and State, Zealous and Pragmatical to support and defend her power pomp and pride, by whom they subsisted, witness her Dispensations or dissipations rather, of all Canonical Orders; bearing down all with her Non obstante, her Simoniacal and Sacrilegious Venality of Holy things, her manifold Extortions in the Exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, which we have not wholly banished: Let each of us therefore account it as spoken to himself, (Come out of her my People.)
And let it be spoken with as litle ⟨p. 102⟩offence as it is delight, We that seem to be the forwardest in Reformatino, are not yet so come out of Babylon, as we have not many shamefull Badges of her Captivity, witness her Impropriations, being indeed plaine Church-robberie, devised to maintain her Colonies of idle and irregular Regulars, Idle to the Church and State, Zealous and Pragmatical to support and defend her power pomp and pride, by whom they subsisted, witness her Dispensations or dissipations rather, of all Canonical Orders; bearing down all with her Non obstante, her Symoniacal and Sacrilegious Venality of Holy things, her manifold Extortions in the Exercise of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdictiction, which we have not wholly banished: Let each of us therefore account it as spoken to himself, (Come out of her my People.)
In this Journey let us not trouble and cast stumbling blocks before Gods ⟨p. 103⟩People, that are ready to come out or hinder one another with Dissentions in matters either inexplicable, or unprofitable: let it have some pardon: If some be even so forward in flying from Babylon, as they fear to go back, to take their own goods for haste and let it not be blamed or uncharitably censured, if some come in the Rear, and would leave none of Christs People behind them: No man reacheth his hand to another whom he would lift out of a Ditch, but he stoops to him. Our ends immediate are not the same, but yet they meet in one final intention; The one hates Babylon, and the other loves and pities Christs People: There the one believes the Angel that cast the Millstone into the Sea; in the end of this Chap. with that word (so shall Babylon rise uo more.) The other fear the threatening of our Saviour against such as scandalize any of the little ones believing in