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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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The second Exposition is, that it should be meant an ordained Ministry, which clearly in Saint Paul's time we find was wont to be by laying on of hands. This is Pareus his sense upon this place. It was (saith he)a an initial doctrine, concerning the Ministry of the Church then ordained by imposition of hands; *Gualterus in his Comment upon this place, saith, In this is contained the whole function of Preachers, &c. designed unto it by imposition of hands: But none so full as Mr. Cartwright in his answer to the Rhemists upon this place, his words are these. viz. By the imposition of hands the Apostle meaneth no Sacrament, much less confirmation, after Baptism; but by a trope or borrowed speech, the Ministers of the Church; upon the which ⟨p. 180⟩hands were laid, which appeareth in that whosoever believeth not; that there ought to be a Ministry by order (or Ordination) to teach and govern the Church; overthroweth Christianity, whereas if Confirmation of children were a Sacrament, as it is not; yet a man holding the rest, and denying the use of it, might notwithstanding be saved. And some lines after, gives us summarily the sense of this verse, viz. to be the doctrine of the Sacraments, and of the Ministry of the Church: Ye see, in his opinion, what a dangerous thing it is, no less then the hazard of their own salvation, to lay aside an ordained Ministry, or to deny the doctrine of it, which men now frequently presume.
The second Exposition is, that it should be meant an ordained Ministery, which clearly in Saint Paul's time we find was wont to be by laying on of hands. This is Pareus his sense upon this place. It was (saith he)a an initial doctrine, concerning the Ministery of the Church then ordained by imposition of hands; *Gualterus in his Comment upon this place, saith, In this is contained the whole function of Preachers, &c. designed unto it by imposition of hands: But none so full as Mr. Cartwright in his answer to the Rhemists upon this place, his words are these. viz. By the imposition of hands the Apostle meaneth no Sacrament, much lesse confirmation, after Baptisme; but by a trope or borrowed speech, the Ministers of the Church; upon the which