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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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Now if Ordination be a fundamental principle, hence then these 2 things may be inferred.
1. A necessity of continuing an ordained Ministry in the Church, ⟨p. 189⟩and the neglect of it to be the undermining of the foundation of it.
1. A necessity of continuing an ordained Ministery in the Church, ⟨p. 189⟩and the neglect of it to be the underming of the foundation of it.
2. That Ordination is not only an internal call from God, but an external from Man; for 'tis denominated here from laying on of hands.
2. That Ordination is not only an internal call from God, but an externall from Man; for 'tis denominated here from laying on of hands.
First a necessity of continuing such a distinct Order and profession for preaching, and other sacred Administrations; This subject would heretofore have been accounted needless to be handled, but it is necessary and seasonable now, there being many set against the very function, as if any man might of himself assume it. To such I shall represent these considerations following. viz.