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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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Unto which I might also add the opinion of some learned men, living and dying within the outward communion of the Church of Rome. To instance only in Padrio Paulo, who wrote the History ⟨p. 161⟩of the Council of Trent: After whose stabbing by an Emissary from Rome, many of the Clergy of Venice, brake out into that application, calling that See Impura, insana, superba, meretrix, pestis, ac lues mortalium; and her ruin to be expected, according to Rvelat. 18. Some of the verses are printed at the end of the Interdict writ by Padrio Paulo, and translated out of Italian into Latin by Bishop Bedell, who was often an ear-witness when he lived in those parts of divers learned men, producing that of 2 Thes. 2. the man of sin who exalts himself above all, &c. and shall sit in the temple of God, &c. both as an argument that the Bishop of Rome is the person sitting; and that those who are oppressed, and tyrannised over by him, are ⟨p. 162⟩uthe Church of God, and from thence rejecting any application to Mahumet, and fixing it upon the Bishop of Rome, some questioning, Is it he, or shall we look for another; others saying, (as the Jews of the blind man) This is one very like him, but many, This is he?) which puts me in mind of the confident assertion of Cardinal Perron, who affirms that whosoever maintaineth this wicked doctrine, that Popes have no power to put Kings by their supreme thrones, they teach men to believe that there hath not been any Church for many ages past, and that indeed the Church is the very Synagogue of Antichrist; and the Pope in good consequence to be the Antichrist; ⟨p. 163⟩which Oration the Cardinal himself addressed to King James, upon a supposition, it might have converted him. See King James Preface, to the defence of the right of Kings*.
Unto which I might also adde the opinion of some learned men, liveing and dying within the outward communion of the Church of Rome. To instance onely in Padrio Paulo, who wrote the History