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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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For that of the Primates judgement (seconded by some eminent Writers) what is meant, Heb, 6. 2. by laying on of hands, and of the sense of the old form of words in Ordination; viz. Receive the holy Ghost, whose sins thou forgivest, ⟨image 7⟩&c. and the use of them to be continued. I had leave from himself for the manifesting and enlarging of it. And I suppose the last subject concerning a Set Form of Prayer, will pass with the less opposition, by the concurring of divers eminent and worthy Persons, whom the contrary-minded cannot but highly esteem of. Having both in the former and this, taken up Saint Pauls manner of arguing with the Athenians, as certain also of your own have said, &c. or as elsewhere, one of themselves, even a Prophet of their own, &c. And surely, the Primates appearing so much against the See of Rome in the first, cannot but be a preparative to the hearkening unto him the rather, in the two later.
For that of the Primates judgement (seconded by some eminent Writers) what is meant, Heb, 6. 2. by laying on of hands, and of the sense of the old form of words in Ordination; viz. Receive the holy Ghost, whose sins thou forgivest, ⟨image 7⟩&c. and the use of them to be continued. I had leave from himself for the manifesting and enlarging of it. And I suppose the last subject concerning a Set Form of Prayer, will passe with the lesse opposition, by the concurring of divers eminent and worthy Persons, whom the contrary-minded cannot but highly esteem of. Having both in the former and this, taken up Saint Pauls manner of arguing with the Athenians, as certain also of your own have said, &c. or as elsewhere, one of themselves, even a Prophet of their own, &c. And surely, the Primates appearing so much against the See of Rome in the first, cannot but be a preparative to the hearkning unto him the rather, in the two later.
For my self, I have no other design in the whole, but the peace and unity of the Church, which we are all bound to seek, (and without which end and aim, all gifts whatsoever coveted by us, are of no value) and I hope to have that interpretation from such as are so affected.