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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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Secondly, This election here to the Apostleship, was neither the peoples, nor Apostles, but ⟨p. 217⟩Gods by a divine suffrage, expressed by lot according to the prayer of the Apostles to God for it, and so it makes nothing for the peoples act in ordination: and so much for the first Question, Whose hands must be imposed?
2.1 What if the ordainers, being of the Ministry, be found not to have •een of clean hands themselves, i. e. of evil lives, is their ordination good?
2.1 What if the ordainers, being of the Ministry, be found not to have •een of clean hands themselves, i. e. of evill lives, is their ordination good?
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I answer,1 Yes; For 'tis not a personal act, but an act of office, as 'tis not the learning of the Judge makes any decree valid, but his authority and commission for it; A Popish Judge gives a just sentence in Court, his sentence is not erroneous and Antichristian: though himself may be so; his act is good in Law: how bad soever he is in