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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now in regard that above-said Article of the Church of Ireland, confirmed by the judgement of the late Primate, hath been objected against by Doctor Heylene ⟨p. 147⟩for that (as he saith) there is no such doctrine in the book of Articles, nor in any public monument, or record of the Church of England, but the contrary rather. • shall cite some passages out of the book of Homilies, which are approved by the book of Articles, as a larger declaration of the Doctrine of the Church of England, and leave it to the Readers judgment.
Now in regard that above-said Article of the Church of Ireland, confirmed by the judgement of the late Primate, hath been objected against by Doctor Heylene ⟨p. 147⟩for that (as he saith) there is no such doctrine in the book of Articles, nor in any publick monument, or record of the Church of England, but the contrary rather. • shall cite some passages out of the book of Homilies, which are approved by the book of Articles, as a larger declaration of the Doctrine of the Church of England, and leave it to the Readers judgment.
In the third part of the Sermon of good works, speaking against the Popish singing of Trentals, and the superstitious Orders in the Church of Rome, introduced to serve the Papacy, these words are as followeth: viz. Honour be to God, who did put light in the heart of King Henry the eighth; to put away all such superstitions, and Pharisaical Sects, by ⟨p. 148⟩Antichrist invented, &c. which can be meant of no other, but the See of Rome; by the words not long after. viz. Let us rehearse some other kinds of Papistical superstitions, &c. In the second part of the Sermon of salvation, speaking against the Popish opinion of justification by works; these words are as followeth. Justification is not the office of man, but of God; for man cannot make himself righteous by his own works, neither in part, nor in the whole, for that were the greatest arrogancy and presumption of man, that Antichrist could set up against God, etc. and so accounts it not the doctrine of a Christian, that sets forth Christs glory, but of him that is an adversary to Christ, and his Gospel; and a setter forth of mans vain-glory, &c.