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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.
Viegus saith,a We conceive, wheresoever Babylon is mentioned in the Revelation, it signifies Rome, and all things in the 17. and 18. Revel. very fitly appliable to it.
Viegus saith,a We conceive, wheresover Babylon is mentioned in the Revelation, it signifies Rome, and all things in the 17. and 18. Revel. very fitly appliable to it.
- aExistimamus nomine Babylonis Remanam urbem significari in hoc Apocalypsis opere, ubi toties Babylon nominatur, &c. omnia quae his capitibas memorantur, in Romanam urbem aptissimè quadrant,
According to that of bBellarmine (formerly quoted) and ⟨p. 167⟩Lessius cwho saith, John calls Rome Babylon, as being the figure of Rome, and by his words he elearly showeth it to be Rome, All which may well give a check to the Novelty of some among our selves, who without the ballast of sound or solid judgement, have been carried about with the winds; of other imaginations, which yet I could easily believe, some Popish Agents (upon second thoughts) have had their hands in, to get it driven off the further from their shore; Though how far not-withstanding our aforesaid Writers, and these are from an agreement, in the above-said, hath been made apparent in the two former Treatises; viz. Those of ⟨p. 168⟩the Popish Writers, would have it Rome, while it was Heathen, and the fall to be with the Heathen Empire; and ours, Rome since it became Christian, and the fall yet to come. Those of ours, who in defence of our Ordination from the scandal of Antichristian, by its passing through the See of Rome, have endeavoured to take off that See, from being such in the aforementioned places; as it was a needless refuge, so the cure is worse then the disease.