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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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And Maresius in his preface to the Answer of Hugo Grotius his Observations upon the 2 Thes. 2. and other places gives us the like Article, agreed upon in Synodo Nationali Gapensi. Anno 1604. which hath very little or no difference from the former, and so needless to be repeated. Which do fully agree with the Synod of Ireland, by by the Arch-bishops and Bishops, and the rest of the Clergy there in the Convocation holden at Dublin, 1615. num. 80. viz. The Bishop of Rome is so far from being the supreme head of the Universal Church of Christ, that his works and doctrine, do plainly discover him to be the man of sin, foretold in holy Scripture, whom the Lord shall consume with ⟨p. 146⟩the spirit of his mouth, and abolish with the brightness of his coming.
And Maresius in his preface to the Answer of Hugo Grotius his Observations upon the 2 Thes. 2. and other places gives us the like Article, agreed upon in Synodo Nationali Gapensi. Anno 1604. which hath very little or no difference from the former, and so needlesse to be repeated. Which do fully agree with the Synod of Ireland, by by the Arch-bishops and Bishops, and the rest of the Clergy there in the Convocation holden at Dublin, 1615. num. 80. viz. The Bishop of Rome is so farre from being the supreme head of the Vniversal Church of Christ, that his works and doctrine, do plainly discovar him to be the man of sin, foretold in holy Scripture, whom the Lord shall consnme with ⟨p. 146⟩the spirit of his mouth, and abolish with the brightnesse of his coming.
The former Synod may possibly be undervalued with some, by bearing the name of Presbyterian; but seeing it consents with the latter which was Episcopal, why may it not be an introduction to a further moderation between them in other matters. And it stands but with justice; that if Presbytery have had a hand in the match of Episcopacy with Popery, (which seems to have been without consent of parties) it should upon this evidence be the more forward in assisting in the divorce.