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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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1. That in all ages there have been some persons set apart for such divine Offices even before the Law, or constitution of Aaron ⟨p. 190⟩and the Levites; as since, see some appointed, Exod. 19. 22. Let the Priests which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves, (Chap. 24. 5.) called young men of the Children of Israel, sent of Moses, who offered the burnt offerings and sacrifice unto the Lord, and this is usually interpreted to be the First-borne, and that of the principal of the families, instead of which the Levites were afterward taken, (see Numb. 3. 12.) And what a settled Priesthood there was in Moses and Solomons time to the Captivity; and after it upon their return; who knows not? see Mal. 2. A speech to the Priests, and for that five hundred-year gap betwixt the Old Testament and the New, when the Prophets ceased, yet a Priesthood continued, that the service ⟨p. 191⟩of God, then was not to put to the charity of Passengers, as beggars are by the high way, but some were appropriated to it; Jeroboam that forsook the Temple, yet retained a Priesthood, though of his own corrupt appointment.
1. That in all ages there have been some persons set apart for such divine Offices even before the Law, or constitution of Aaron ⟨p. 190⟩and the Levites; as since, see some appointed, Exod. 19. 22. Let the Priests which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves, (Chap. 24. 5.) called young men of the Children of Israel, sent of Moses, who offered the burnt offerings and sacrifice unto the Lord, and this is usually interpreted to be the First-borne, and that of the principall of the families, instead of which the Levites were afterward taken, (see Numb. 3. 12.) And what a setled Priesthood there was in Moses and Solomons time to the Captivity; and after it upon their return; who knows not? see