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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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Rom. 10. 15. Ye have a building of four or five stories high of several Acts and Ministrations; but Ordination of a Ministry is the Foundation, Salvation is at the top of this Jacobs Ladder, but Ordination at the bottom: Whosoever will call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved, but how shall they call on him, on mhom they have not believed? how shall they believe on him, of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a Preacher, and how shall they preach, except they be sent? &c. See, praying, believing, hearing, preaching, and then as the foundation of all, a Mission of Preachers for that end; what is said of the Commandments of the Law, (James 2.) he that offends in one, is guilty of all; such is the concatenation ⟨p. 187⟩of the principles of the Gospel; break one link, and all are endangered; He that renounceth his Baptism, renounceth his Faith, into which he was baptized, even the death and resurrection of our Saviour signified by it, Colos. 2. Consider what ye do in renouncing the Ministry by whom ye were baptized, and have believed (1 Cor. 3. 5.) if any efficacy be in the Sacrament, according to the qualification & authoritative faculty of the person officiating, see what hazard you run in rejecting of such so ordained?
Rom. 10. 15. Ye have a building of four or five stories high of severall Acts and Ministrations; but Ordination of a Ministery is the Foundation, Salvation is at the top of this Iacobs Ladder, but Ordination at the bottome: Whosoever will call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved, but how shall they call on him, on mhom they have not believed? how shall they believe on him, of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a Preacher, and how shall they preach, except they be sent? &c. See, praying, believing, hearing, preaching, and then as the foundation of all, a Mission of Preachers for that end; what is said of the Commandements of the Law, (Iames 2.) he that offends in one, is guilty of all; such is the concatenation