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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, though 2 Thes. 2. he saith the Temple of God, where the man of sin sits, is Jerusalem; yet here his seat of Babylon must be Rome; Produceth the express Testimonies of the Fathers for it, Lactantius, Tertullian, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, &c. and (saith he) even our heretics meaning the Protestant Writers (for after the same way he calls heresy; so worship we the God of our Fathers) and in conclusion, produceth most of his own associates, the Writers of the Church of Rome, Sixtus Senensis, Bellarmine, Bozius, Zuarez, Salmeran, Alcazar, unto which I may add, Baronius, y'Tis most certain ⟨p. 166⟩(saith he) by the name of Babylon, the City of Rome is signified. Ribera in his Commentary upon it, saith the same, adding alsoz all things fitly agree to it, and somewhat that can be applied to no other then Rome, as The seven heads are seven hills, and, The City which reigneth over the Kings of the earth.
And, though 2 Thes. 2. he saith the Temple of God, where the man of sinne sits, is Ierusalem; yet here his seat of Babylon must be Rome; Produceth the expresse Testimonies of the Fathers for it, Lactantius, Tertullian, Ierome, Ambrose, Augustine, &c. and (saith he) even our hereticks meaning the Protestant Writers (for after the same way he calls heresie; so worship we the God of our Fathers) and in conclusion, produceth most of his own associates, the Writers of the Church of Rome, Sixtus Senensis, Bellarmine, Bozius, Zuarez, Salmeran, Alcazar, unto which I may adde, Baronius, y'Tis most certaine ⟨p. 166⟩(saith he) by the name of Babylon, the City of Rome is signified. Ribera in his Commentary upon it, saith the same, adding alsoz