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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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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.
Let us be of moderate spirits, and not run beyond the bounds of any president in the Primitive times, walk not in ways not cast up; (Jerem. 6. 16.) enquire for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein; be not like those in the next words, that said, we will not walk in them; ⟨p. 205⟩but in new ones, according to your own fancies. Let the Tribe of Levi be purged, but let not the physic be so strong as to destroy them. Saint Paul magnified his own office; this is but to support it from being trodden under feet, and the end is your good, that in these distracted times, ye might not be without leaders, so ordained and fitted, to guide your feet in the way of peace, and so much for the first, A necessity of an ordained Ministry.