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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,1 it could not be called properly the Religion of Rome, till the Council of Trent, which determined many years after our falling off from the See of Rome: The Papists ask us, Where was our Religion before Luther? we might reply, Where was the ⟨p. 224⟩Popish Religion before that time. 'Tis true, most of those poisonous errors were sown up and down the world before, but not collected fully into a body; and so owned and headed by the Papacy till then. For till that time, scarce any point we hold now against them but there were some of their own Authors who held it also. So that to speak properly the now Romish Religion in their new Creed, with other appurtenances, was established since our form of ordination.
First,1 it could not be called properly the Religion of Rome, till the Councell of Trent, which determined many years after our falling off from the See of Rome: The Papists ask us, Where was our Religion before Luther? we might reply, Where was the ⟨p. 224⟩Popish Religion before that time. 'Tis true, most of those poysonous errours were sowen up and down the world before, but not collected fully into a body; and so owned and headed by the Papacy till then. For till that time, scarce any point we hold now against them but there were some of their own Authours who held it also. So that to speak properly the now Romish Religion in their new Creed, with other appurtenances, was established since our form of ordination.
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2. Suppose we received our ordination from such who were corrupted with Popish errors, yet if they retained the Fundamentals of Christian Religion, their ordination may be valid: those like some part of the bark of the tree uncut, may convey