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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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Bishop Jewell that learned Bishop of Salisbury, in his Exposition of the second Epistle to the Thessalonians, cap. 2. is very large in the application of the whole prophecy, to the See of Rome, as that of the vision of Saint John concerning Babylon, p. 373. &c. Concludes that Antichrist, shall not be a Jew but a Christian, not a King, but a Bishop, and a holy Father, and should wear a Mitre. For on whom (saith he) should an Army of Priests attend (as Gregory the great a Bishop of Rome prophesied of Antichrist) but upon ⟨p. 127⟩a Bishop, and an universal Bishop, at least one so claiming that universality; see his recollection of the whole: pag. 319. wondering any man should doubt of it; 'tis so apparent. And what he saith, p. 279. viz. that he knew what he should speak, would be ill taken of many, such affection they bear to him, whom the Apostle deciphers to be Antichrist (though I shall say nothing, but what, the holy scriptures, and learned writings of the Fathers have left unto us, and which the Church of God hath at this time proved to be true) will be found I fear also in many of this age, whose inclinations are too much declared in the defence of that See, in this particular.
Bishop Iewell that learned Bishop of Sarisbury, in his Exposition of the second Epistle to the Thessalonians, cap. 2. is very large in the application of the whole prophesie, to the See of Rome, as that of the vision of Saint Iohn concerning Babylon, p. 373. &c. Concludes that Antichrist, shall not be a Iew but a Christian, not a King, but a Bishop, and a holy Father, and should weare a Mitre. For on whom (saith he) should an Army of Priests attend (as Gregory the great a Bishop of Rome prophesied of Antichrist) but upon ⟨p. 127⟩a Bishop, and an universal Bishop, at least one so claiming that universality; see his recollection of the whole: pag. 319. wondring any man should doubt of it; 'tis so apparent. And what he saith, p. 279. viz. that he knew what he should speak, would be ill taken of many, such affection they bear to him, whom the Apostle deciphers to be Antichrist (though I shall say nothing, but what, the holy scriptures, and learned writings of the Fathers have left unto us, and which the Church of God hath at this time proved to be true) will be found I fear also in many of this age, whose inclinations are too much declared in the defence of that See, in this particular.