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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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A Confirmation of the Judgement of these two most Reverend and learned Bishops in this particular, and the vindication of it, from the aspersion of Novelty or Singularity, from some grounds out of the Ancient Fathers; the continued Suffrages of learned men in successive ages, and the most eminent Bishops of England and Ireland of later years: occasioned to be the more large by the Censure which Doctor Heylene (in his late book) gives the Primate, and the Articles of Ireland for it.
A Confirmation of the Iudgement of these two most Reverend and learned Bishops in this particular, and the vindication of it, from the aspersion of Novelty or Singularity, from some grounds out of the Ancient Fathers; the continued Suffrages of learned men in successive ages, and the most eminent Bishops of England and Ireland of later yeares: occasioned to be the more large by the Censure which Doctor Heylene (in his late book) gives the Primate, and the Articles of Ireland for it.
First, For the Fathers, who lived §1before that defection or Apostasy, which was to proceed, and prepare the ways for the ⟨p. 106⟩man of sin. (2 Thes. 2, 3.) there could not be expected from them, any such direct application, unless they had a Spirit of Prophecy themselves; Rome was in the Primitive times a pure Church, and the least infected with Arianism, and other heresies which then abounded in the Eastern parts; being rather a receptacle of such as were banished thence by that persecution; so that it must have been a Prophetic pen that should then have affirmed, that righteous City should become an harlot.