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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ye know the speech of our Saviour, Matth. 23. 17. He that swears by the Altar, sweareth by it, and all things thereon; and is not the contrary true, he that despiseth the Altar, despiseth not only that, but all that depend ⟨p. 188⟩on it: If the Ordination or Mission of the person through Gods institution, be of any efficacy to what is officiated, I may leave the application to your selves.
Ye know the speech of our Saviour, Matth. 23. 17. He that swears by the Altar, sweareth by it, and all things thereon; and is not the contrary true, he that despiseth the Altar, despiseth not only that, but all that depend ⟨p. 188⟩on it: If the Ordination or Mission of the person through Gods institution, be of any efficay to what is officiated, I may leave the application to your selves.
Consider what ye do in a total renouncing of an ordained Ministry, as to Baptism and believing, through whom as instrumentals, ye did partake of them; If the foundation fall, how can the building stand: As ye see here Saint Paul makes an ordained Ministry, a fundamental principle of Christian Religion. So much for the sense of the Text, what is meant by laying on of hands.
Consider what ye do in a totall renouncing of an ordained Ministery, as to Baptisme and believing, through whom as instrumentals, ye did partake of them; If the foundation fall, how can the building stand: As ye see here Saint Paul makes an ordained Ministery, a fundamental principle of Christian Religion. So much for the sence of the Text, what is meant by laying on of hands.