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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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Besides, throughout these ages, from the year 1100. how many were there of those, whom the See of Rome pcalled Waldenses, whom Reynerus confesseth to have filled France, Spain, Italy, and most of those Western parts; they with one mouth declared accordingly, thousands of them suffering death by that See, upon that account, whom we find then in most points consenting with us, and declaring against most of the errors of the Church of Rome: being guiltless of those scandals put upon them by Sanders, Cocci•s, and specially F. Parsons, ⟨p. 125⟩which are fully cleared by the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, in his book de Eccles. Christi. Success. & statu. p. 159. even by the testimony of their own Authors; their witness agreeing not together. For John Wycliffe our Countryman, one of great learning and piety, 'tis known sufficiently to have bin his judgment and declaration, as those succeeding him, Johannes Purveius, John Hus, Savonarola, and divers others, long before Luther's time, after which, it was more generally received in the reformed Churches, and the most learned men of each, whom time would fail me, so much as to name. Only as we have given you the votes of our own country-man and others, while they lived under the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, so let me ⟨p. 126⟩add the votes of the most eminent of our English Bishops, since the withdrawing our selves from him, that it may the rather appear, that the judgement of the Primate concurs with the rest of his brethren before him.
Besides, throughout these ages, from the year 1100. how many were there of those, whom the See of Rome pcalled Waldenses, whom Reynerus confessethto have filled France, Spaine, Italy, and most of those Western parts; they with one mouth declared accordingly, thousands of them suffering death by that See, upon that account, whom we find then in most points consenting with us, and declaring against most of the errours of the Church of Rome: being guiltlesse of those scandals put upon them by Sanders, Cocci•s, and specially F. Parsons,