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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. In a word, we do affirm that neither their corruption in opinion, or vitiosity of life, do, or did, void it to the party ordained; none doubts of the Baptism of our fore-fathers administered by those of the like in the Church of Rome, as if there needed any reiteration, by them who survived our reformation: neither do we renew the orders received in that Church, when any Priest is converted, and betakes himself to our communion, and why should it be questioned here? Let the Seal be of Silver or brass, the ⟨p. 227⟩impression is alike valid, if affixed by order to the deed; Parents in generation convey to the child what is essential to humane nature, not that which is accidental. A maimed Father begets a Son like himself, as he was before he lost his arm; as the circumcised did, and doth an uncircumcised child: the like application may be made, to the transferring of ordination in such a wounded, diseased, Apostatized Church, as the Roman now is, and by such corrupted persons in life and doctrine, continuing in it; so they do observe the* essentials in ordination;2 other superstructures or corruption in the ordainers, doth not null it, either to the persons themselves, or successors; which might be further manifested by the practice ⟨p. 228⟩of the Church in all ages.
3. In a word, we do affirme that neither their corruption in opinion, or vitiosity of life, do, or did, void it to the party ordained; none doubts of the Baptisme of our fore-fathers administred by those of the like in the Church of Rome, as if there needed any reiteration, by them who survived our reformation: neither do we renew the orders received in that Church, when any Priest is converted, and betakes himself to our communion, and why should it be questioned here? Let the Seal be of Silver or brasse, the ⟨p. 227⟩impression is alike valid, if affixed by order to the deed; Parents in generation convey to the child what is essentiall to humane nature, not that which is accidentall. A maimed Father begets a Son like himself, as he was before he lost his arme; as the circumcised did, and doth an uncircumcised child: the like application may be made, to the transferring of ordination in such a wounded, diseased, Apostatized Church, as the Roman now is, and by such corrupted persons in life and doctrine, continuing in it; so they do observe the