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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 am not ignorant of other conjectures by learned men, signifying a threefold Baptism. Sanguinis, flaminis, fluminis, or, the thrice dipping, or sprinkling; the number of persons coming to be baptized; the two several times in the year, in the Ancient Church set apart for it, Easter and Pentecost, called dies baptismatum, which is Calvins and Bezaes; or implying the double act in it, the inward Baptism of Christ, and ⟨p. 175⟩outward baptism of John; that is to say, the Ministers; which are Mr.a Cartwrights words upon the place, who also saith, by a trope both Sacraments are here noted under one, but I conceive, that which we first gave, is the best; And 'tis observable, that the Apostle saith, the doctrine of Baptisms, 'tis not the absolute want of it, when it cannot be had, but the rejecting of the doctrine of it that damns. 'Tis possible that some of those three thousand converted by Saint Peters Sermon, might have died before they could come to the water, and yet be saved; but if they had rejected the doctrine of it, when they were bad to be baptized, like the Pharisees rejecting the Counsel of God against themselves, or like Naman who despised ⟨p. 176⟩the river Jordan, I question it.
I am not ignorant of other conjectures by learned men, signifying a threefold Baptisme. Sanguinis, flaminis, fluminis, or, the thrice dipping, or sprinkling; the number of persons coming to be baptized; the two several times in the year, in the Ancient Church set apart for it, Easter and Pentecost, called dies baptismatum, which is Calvins and Bezaes; or implying the double act in it, the inward Baptisme of Christ, and ⟨p. 175⟩outward baptisme of Iohn; that is to say, the Ministers; which are Mr.a Cartwrights words upon the place, who also saith, by a trope both Sacraments are here noted under one, but I conceive, that which we first gave, is the best; And 'tis observable, that the Apostle saith, the doctrine of Baptismes, 'tis not the absolute want of it, when it cannot be had, but the rejecting of the doctrine of it that damnes. 'Tis possible that some of those three thousand converted by Saint Peters Sermon, might have died before they could come to the water, and yet be saved; but if they had rejected the doctrine of it, when they were bad to be baptized, like the Pharisees rejecting the Counsel of God against themselves, or like Naman who despised