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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. That Ministration under the Law, (the Priests of which the Jewish Writers say, were consecrated by laying on of hands) had as much cause to stand upon succession as any; yet, ye find often, that the Priests the sons of Aaron, and the Levites had corrupted their ways, were defiled with Idolatry in Ahaz, and Manasseh time, and others, as bad or worse then the See of Rome; yet after a reformation, the succession which was by their hands was not questioned; Though the Priesthood ran through much filth, yet retaining the essentials of the Jewish Religion, as circumcision, &c. they were owned of God again in a successive ministration. See in the height of their Idolatry, when they were offering their children ⟨p. 229⟩by fire, unto their Idols, yet by retaining the Sacrament, & covenant of circumcision, their children are called the Lords children, Ezek. 16. 20. Thou hast taken thy sons which thou hast borne unto me, &c. thou hast slain my children, in causing them to pass through the fire, etc.
1. That Ministration under the Law, (the Priests of which the Jewish Writers say, were consecrated by laying on of hands) had as much cause to stand upon succession as any; yet, ye find often, that the Priests the sons of Aaron, and the Levites had corrupted their wayes, were defiled with Idolatry in Ahaz, and Manasses time, and others, as bad or worse then the See of Rome; yet after a reformation, the succession which was by their hands was not questioned; Though the Priesthood ran through much filth, yet retaining the essentialls of the Jewish Religion, as circumcision, &c. they were owned of God again in a successive ministration. See in the height of their Idolatry, when they were offering their children ⟨p. 229⟩by fire, unto their Idols, yet by retaining the Sacrament, & covenant of circumcision, their children are called the Lords children, Ezek. 16. 20. Thou hast taken thy sons which thou hast borne unto me, &c. thou hast slayn my children, in causing them to pass through the fire, etc.