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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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I shall only allege one passage more, and that is in the conclusion of the second part of the Sermon for Whit-sunday. viz. Wicked and nought were the Popes and Prelates of Rome for the most part, as doth well appear by the ⟨p. 158⟩story of their lives, and therefore worthily accounted among the number of false Prophets, and false Christs, which deceived the world a long while, the Lord defend us from their Tyranny and pride, that they may never enter into this Vineyard again; but that they may be utterly confounded, and put to flight in all parts of the world. And he of his great mercy so work, that the Gospel of his Son may be truly preached to the beating down of sin, death, the Pope, the Devil, and all the kingdom of Antichrist, &c.
I shall only alledge one passage more, and that is in the conclusion of the second part of the Sermon for Whit-sunday. viz. Wicked and nought were the Popes and Prelates of Rome for the most part, as doth well appear by the ⟨p. 158⟩story of their lives, and therefore worthily accounted among the number of false Prophets, and false Christs, which deceived the world a long while, the Lord defend us from their Tyranny and pride, that they may never enter into this Vineyard again; but that they may be utterly confounded, and put to flight in all parts of the world. And he of his great mercy so work, that the Gospel of his Son may be truly preached to the beating down of sin, death, the Pope, the Devill, and all the kingdome of Antichrist, &c.
This latter passage is only produced by Doctor Heylene, as an evidence, that the Pope is not declared to be Antichrist, either here, or any where else, in the book of Articles or Homilies, which how the force of it can be ⟨p. 159⟩extended so far beyond its own sphere, both not appear: For his principal argument, that he finds here the Pope and Antichrist, distinguished as much as the Devil and the Pope. 'Tis answered, The distinction here is not between the Pope and Antichrist, but between him and his Antichristian kingdom; for the words are not, the Pope, the Devil, and Antichrist; but, and all the kingdom of Antichrist. That Universality (all) comprehending both head and members. And if we should allow a Duumvirate, (in the Pope and Devil) for the government of that kingdom, one as the visible head, the other as the invisible, or the one him that reigneth; the other by whom he receiveth power so to do: (