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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, If they mean of our §2receiving it from thence, immediately after the Apostles time, (which the ancientest of the British Writers extant do not grant, but aver, that we received it from such as came from Jerusalem hither even in Tiberius his time) it is no disparagement to us,1 for it was then a famous Church; see Saint Pauls Epistle to it, as Ignatius after him. But if they mean since the corruption and Apostasy of it, we may distinguish between from and through, as between the Fountain and Conduit, we received it from the Apostles, though running through some corrupt times of Popery, of which, since our reformation, it savours no more, then the Fish doth of the salt water, or as the three children ⟨p. 220⟩in the furnace, when they came out there, was not so much as the smell of fire found upon them.
Secondly, If they mean of our §2receiving it from thence, immediately after the Apostles time, (which the ancientest of the Brittish Writers extant do not grant, but averre, that we received it from such as came from Ierusalem hither even in Tiberius his time) it is no disparagement to us,1 for it was then a famous Church; see Saint Pauls Epistle to it, as Ignatius after him. But if they mean since the corruption and Apostasy of it, we may distinguish between from and through, as between the Fountain and Conduit, we received it from the Apostles, though running through some corrupt times of Popery, of which, since our reformation, it savours no more, then the Fish doth of the salt water, or as the three children ⟨p. 220⟩in the furnace, when they came out there, was not so much as the smell of fire found upon them.
- 1Gildas.