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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. 1100. a Bishop of Florence so publicly averred it, Antichristum advenisse, & in Ecclesia dominari; That the Bishop of Rome Paschalis the second (an. 1105.) was fain to convocate a Council at Florence, to silence him. Eberhardus Archiepiscopus Salisburiensis in Germany, in a great meeting of Bishops, applies to the then Bishop of Rome, Gregory the seventh, divers passages in 2 Thes. 2. among which he hath this speech, speaking of the Bishop of Rome. Perditus ille homo, quem Antichristum vocare solent, in cujus fronte scriptum est; Deus sum, ⟨p. 121⟩errare non possum, in Templo Dei sedet; i. e. That wicked one, whom they use to call Antichrist, (it seems it was a common Title given in those days to him as now) in whose fore-head is written, I am God, I cannot err, he sits in the Temple of God, &c. And applies divers of the passages of the Revelation, 17. & 18. accordingly, Imperator vana appellatio & sola umbra est, Reges decem pariter existunt, qui Romanum quondam imperium partiti sunt, etc. Decem Cornua (id quod D. Augustino incredibile visum est) Romanas provincias possident, &c. i. e. See, the Emperor is a vain title, a mere shadow. Ten Kings have parted the Roman Empire among them, signified by the ten horns (which seemed incredible to Saint Augustine) Turks, Greeks, Egypt, Africa, Spain, ⟨p. 122⟩France, England, Germany, Sicily, Italy, &c. Avent. Annal. lib. 7. 547.
A. 1100. a Bishop of Florence so publickly averred it, Antichristum advenisse, & in Ecclesia dominari; That the Bishop of Rome Paschalis the second (an. 1105.) was fein to convocate a Councel at Florence, to silence him. Eberhardus Archiepiscopus Salisburiensis in Germany, in a great meeting of Bishops, applies to the then Bishop of Rome, Gregory the seventh, divers passages in 2 Thes. 2. among which he hath this speech, speaking of the Bishop of Rome. Perditus ille homo, quem Antichristum vocare solent, in cujus fronte scriptum est; Deus sum, ⟨p. 121⟩