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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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2. Now secondly, to take off the aspersion of singularity, for which there are a multitude of votes this way, of such writers who lived after the Emperor was put out of Rome, and the Bishop of Rome had succeeded him, viz. after the 600 years after Christ. It would be endless to relate the Authors, who have given their testimony both in the exposition, and application of ⟨p. 119⟩that of the 2 Thessalonians 2. to the See of Rome; Baronius himself acknowledgeth in the general, that there was not an age, but some learned man or other appeared in it accordingly, and even some of their own Communion. And about a thousand years after Christ, when the man of sin was come to the height, according to the description of him, foretold by Saint Paul, there were abundance. *Aventinus, who was one of their own) tells us in his Annals, there were many of the German Bishops and Pastors in Gregory the seventh's time, that preached it throughout Germany, applying the whole prophecy of Saint Paul to the Bishop of Rome. kQui titulo Christi, negotium Antichristi agitat, who under the title of Christ, doth the work of ⟨p. 120⟩Antichrist. Nay, saith he, Pler•que omnes boni, justi, ingenui, Imperium Antichristi coepisse, eo tempore cernebant. i. e. that all good men and ingenuous, for the most part discerned it at that time.
2. Now secondly, to take off the aspersion of singularity, for which there are a multitude of votes this way, of such writers who lived after the Emperour was put out of Rome, and the Bishop of Rome had succeeded him, viz. after the 600 years after Christ. It would be endlesse to relate the Authours, who have given their testimony both in the exposition, and application of ⟨p. 119⟩that of the