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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 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 2 Thes. 2. to him, which thus beginneth, viz. After that ambition and desire of dominion, entered once into Ecclesiastical Ministers, ⟨p. 152⟩whose greatness (after the doctrine and the example of our Saviour) should chiefly stand in humbling themselves; And that the Bishop of Rome did by intolerable ambition challenge, not only to be the head of all the Church dispersed throughout the world, but also to be Lord of all kingdoms of the world, as is expressly set forth in the book of his own Canon-Laws. He became at once the spoiler and destroyer both of the Church, which is the kingdom of our Saviour Christ, and of the Christian Empire, and all Christian kingdoms, as an universal Tyrant over all. The particulars of whose actions to that end, are there related. viz. The Bishop of Rome stirring up subjects to rebel against their Sovereign Lords, even the Son against the Father, ⟨p. 153⟩pronouncing such Schismatics, and persecuting them, who refused to acknowledge his above-said challenge of supreme authority over them; discharging them from their oath of fidelity made not only to the Emperor, but to other Kings and Princes throughout Christendom. The most cruel and bloody wars raised amongst Christian Princes of all kingdoms: the horrible murder of infinite thousands of Christian men, being slain by Christians, the loss of so many great Cities, Countries, Dominions, and Kingdoms, sometimes possessed by Christians in Asia, Africa, and Europe; The miserable fall of the Empire, and Church of Greece, sometime the most flourishing part of Christendom, into the hands of the Turks; The lamentable diminishing, decay and ruin of Christian Religion: ⟨p. 154⟩and all by the practice and procurement of the Bishop of Rome chiefly, which is in the Histories and Chronicles written by the Bishop of Rome's own favourites and friends to be seen, claiming also to have divers Princes and Kings to their vassals, liege men, and subjects, &c. behaving themselves more like Kings and Emperors in all things, then remained like Priests, Bishops and Ecclesiastical; or, (as they would be called) spiritual persons in any one thing at all, &c.