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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 'tis observable, the argument which he useth, he produceth ⟨p. 181⟩as a Maxim then in his time, taken for granted; not to be proved, but supposed; no man then so much as questioning the necessity of it, for though there were then divers disputes about discipline and ceremonies, (in which this learned Author then appeared) yet both parties esteemed alike of Ordination to be a sacred institution, none presuming to take upon them the office of the Ministry without it; Well, this I conceive to be the sense here of laying on of hands, viz. That it was a Principle of the Catechism taught to Christians at their first reception, that there was to be a successive ordination, or setting apart of persons for the Ministry, for an authoritative preaching of faith and repentance, and administration of Sacraments, ⟨p. 182⟩called laying on of hands from the outward rite; as the Lords Supper, by breaking of bread; And this was the judgement of the most Reverend and learned Father of our Church, the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, which hath the rather emboldened me to employ my thoughts in the confirmation of it; and surely, if it be a fundamental, the knowledge of the sense of it, is of a greater consequence, then to be slighted.
And 'tis observable, the argument which he useth, he produceth ⟨p. 181⟩as a Maxime then in his time, taken for granted; not to be proved, but supposed; no man then so much as questioning the necessity of it, for though there were then divers disputes about discipline and ceremonies, (in which this learned Authour then appeared) yet both parties esteemed alike of Ordination to be a sacred institution, none presuming to take upon them the office of the Ministery without it; Well, this I conceive to be the sence here of laying on of hands, viz. That it was a Principle of the Catechisme taught to Christians at their first reception, that there was to be a successive ordination, or setting apart of persons for the Ministery, for an authorative preaching of faith and repentance, and administration of Sacraments, ⟨p. 182⟩called laying on of hands from the outward rite; as the Lords Supper, by breaking of bread; And this was the judgement of the most Reverend and learned Father of our Church, the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, which hath the rather emboldned me to employ my thoughts in the confirmation of it; and surely, if it be a fundamentall, the knowledge of the sense of it, is of a greater consequence, then to be slighted.