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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.
According as appeareth by the description of the garnishing of the great strumpet of all strumpets, the Mother of whoredoms, set forth by Saint John in his Revelation (Apoc. 17.) who by her glory provoked the Princes of the earth, to commit whoredom with her, &c, and it followeth, pag. 77. And it is not enough to deck Idols, but at the last, come in ⟨p. 151⟩the Priests themselves likewise decked with gold and pearl, and with a solemn pace, they pass forth before these golden puppets, and fall down to the ground on their marrow-bones before the sehonourable Idols, and then rising up again, offer up odours and incense to them: &c. He that reads the whole, cannot judge of it to be meant otherwise, then of the Papacy.
According as appeareth by the description of the garnishing of the great strumpet of all strumpets, the Mother of whoredomes, set forth by Saint Iohn in his Revelation (Apoc. 17.) who by her glory provoked the Princes of the earth, to commit whoredome with her, &c, and it followeth, pag. 77. And it is not enough to deck Idols, but at the last, come in ⟨p. 151⟩the Priests themselves likewise decked with gold and pearle, and with a solemn pace, they pass forth before these golden puppets, and fall down to the ground on their marrow-bones before the sehonourable Idols, and then rising up again, offer up odours and incense to them: &c. He that reads the whole, cannot judge of it to be meant otherwise, then of the Papacy.
And if the fifth and sixth part of the Sermon against wilful rebellion be viewed, there will be found such a large narration of the pride and ambition of the Bishop of Rome, that there will not need any further help to an application of that