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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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First, the Communion forborne, out of offence to some gesture, now the Sacrament it self neglected, and contemned, as if we may now live above and without Ordinances, & without any ordained Ministry to administer each, as indeed the one must follow the other.
First, the Communion forborne, out of offence to some gesture, now the Sacrament it selfe neglected, and contemned, as if we may now live above and without Ordinances, & without any ordained Ministry to administer each, as indeed the one must follow the other.
This is the train laid to blow us up, what Jacob said after Joseph was lost, and Benjamin must go too; All these things are against me, may be our application ⟨p. 204⟩for the Church. If any thirty years ago, should have foretold that this Garden of God should have brought forth these weeds, that such Tenets should have so prevailed among us, he would have been by the most religious persons of that age, taken for one that dreamed; and they ready to have answered for their Mother-Church, as Hazael did for himself, when the Prophet told him, what evil he should be the Author of.
This is the train laid to blow us up, what Iacob said after Ioseph was lost, and Benjamin must go too; All these things are against me, may be our application ⟨p. 204⟩for the Church. If any thirty years agone, should have foretold that this Garden of God should have brought forth these weeds, that such Tenents should have so prevailed among us, he would have been by the most religious persons of that age, taken for one that dreamed; and they ready to have answered for their Mother-Church, as Hazael did for himself, when the Prophet told him, what evill he should be the Authour of.