A64635:201
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.
Object. That of the Law was a Priesthood, but we speak of a Ministry.
Ob•ect. That of the Law was a Priesthood, but we speak of a Ministery.
Resp. 1. We stand not upon §1words or Titles; neither doth the Apostle, for as (2 Cor. 3. 7, 8, 9.) he calls the Priests of the Law Ministers, and their office a Ministration; so he implies, that the Ministers of the Gospel might have that Title of Priests (1 Cor. 9. 13.) by taking his Argument for their maintenance from the Priests, Altar, and Temple, as they that serve at the Altar, partake of the ⟨p. 192⟩Altar; even so hath God ordained, that those that preach the Gospel, should live of the Gospel; and the name hath only grown ignominious, by the Church of Rome's retaining it, whom if by way of distinction, they had been called by us sacrificers (as Bishop Downham observes) there had been no offence in it. All that read the Fathers, know it is the term used by them; whose Tractates of the Ministry are intituled De Sacerdotio.
Resp. 1. We stand not upon §1words or Titles; neither doth the Apostle, for as (2 Cor. 3. 7, 8, 9.) he calls the Priests of the Law Ministers, and their office a Ministration; so he implies, that the Ministers of the Gospel might have that Title of Priests (1 Cor. 9. 13.) by taking his Argument for their maintenance from the Priests, Altar, and Temple, as they that serve at the Altar, partake of the