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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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First, it is considerable, how well this doth suit with Saint Pauls expression elsewhere, speaking of Ordination, 2 Tim. 1. 6. Stir up the gift of God that is in thee by the putting on of my hands, 1 Tim. 4. 14. neglect not the gift that is in thee, given thee with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, both thus sufficiently ⟨p. 183⟩reconciled; Saint Paul was the principal, the Presbyters were his assistants, according to the constitutions and custom of our Church in Ordination. The Bishop is not to do it alone, but with the assistance of at least three or four of the Ministers, which was after the pattern of the Primitive times; The injunction of Saint Paul for it, is accordingly. 2 Tim. 5. 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man, i. e. ordain. And it is the more observable, that all are from one and the same Apostle, it being one argument to prove Saint Paul was the Author of this Epistle to the Hebrews, by the use of this expression here, which is not in the Epistles of any other Apostle.
First, it is considerable, how well this doth sute with Saint Pauls expression elsewhere, speaking of Ordination, 2 Tim. 1. 6. Stirre up the gift of God that is in thee by the putting on of my hands, 1 Tim. 4. 14. neglect not the gift that is in thee, given thee with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, both thus sufficiently ⟨p. 183⟩reconciled; Saint Paul was the principal, the Presbyters were his assistants, according to the constitutions and custome of our Church in Ordination. The Bishop is not to do it alone, but with the assistance of at least three or four of the Ministers, which was after the pattern of the Primitive times; The injunction of Saint Paul for it, is accordingly. 2 Tim. 5. 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man, i. e. ordain. And it is the more observable, that all are from one and the same Apostle, it being one argument to prove Saint Paul was the Authour of this Epistle to the Hebrews, by the use of this expression here, which is not in the Epistles of any other Apostle.