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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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Tertullian, who lived about 400 years before the Emperor, was cast out of Rome, in the Exposition of that (2 Thes. 2. 9.) and now ye know what with-holdeth, or who letteth. verse 7. he who now letteth, will let till he be taken out of the way, saith this;d Who can this be, but the Roman Empire, whose removal out of Rome, being dispersed into 10 Kingdoms, must usher in Antichrist, and then shall the wicked one be revealed; what he saith in his Apology for the Christians to the Emperor Severus, who was afraid of the multiplying ⟨p. 114⟩of them, as Pharaoh was of the Israelites in Egypt, hath bin touched already in the former Treatises, where the principal argument against any such fear is this. viz. The eChristians have need to pray for the Emperor, and even for the whole State of the Empire, and the Roman affairs, in regard we know the greatest mischief hanging over the whole world, threatening horrible and bitter things, to be retarded by the continuance of the Roman Empire: which being compared with the former exposition, must be meant in the same sense, and is so applied by Bishop Abbot (demonstrat. Antichristi. n. 92.)
Tertullian, who lived about 400 yeares before the Emperour, was cast out of Rome, in the Exposition of that (2 Thes. 2. 9.) and now ye know what with-holdeth, or who letteth. verse 7. he who now letteth, will let till he be taken out of the way, saith this;d Who can this be, but the Roman Empire, whose removal out of Rome, being dispersed into 10 Kingdomes, must usher in Antichrist, and then shall the wicked one be revealed; what he saith in his Apology for the Christians to the Emperour Severus, who was afraid of the multiplying ⟨p. 114⟩of them, as Pharaoh was of the Israelites in Egypt, hath bin touched already in the former Treatises, where the principal argument against any such fear is this. viz. The