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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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3. If they mean of Augustine the Monk sent from Rome in Gregory the great his time, about 600 years after Christ; there were then no such defilements of doctrine in it, that it should be a scandal to us either: And yet we were not then to seek for an ordained Ministry, there having been for many hundreds of years, before that, a flourishing Church among us, which the Saxons whom he came to convert, had been the persecutors and destroyers of, as Gildas tells us, so that in that, or the former, sense, the objection is not worth the answering.
3. If they mean of Austine the Monke sent from Rome in Gregory the great his time, about 600 yeares after Christ; there were then no such defilements of doctrine in it, that it should be a scandall to us either: And yet we were not then to seek for an ordained Ministery, there having been for many hundreds of years, before that, a flourishing Church among us, which the Saxons whom he came to convert, had been the persecutors and destroyers of, as Gildas tells us, so that in that, or the former, sense, the objection is not worth the answering.
But fourthly, I suppose they mean of later Centuries, when that ⟨p. 221⟩complaint of the Prophet concerning Jerusalem, might be appliable to Rome. How is that faithful City become a harlot? it was full of judgement, righteousness lodged in her; but now murderers, &c. i. e. Since the Bishop of Rome became corrupt in doctrine and worship.
But fourthly, I suppose they mean of later Centuries, when that ⟨p. 221⟩complaint of the Proph•et concerning Ierusalem, might be appliable to Rome. How is that faithful City become a harlot? it was full of judgement, righteousnesse lodgeed in her; but now murderers, &c. i. e. Since the Bishop of Rome became corrupt in doctrine and worship.