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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. Nay, under the Gospel, about four hundred years after our Saviour Christ, was not the world so over-run with Arians, that it groaned under it? (as St. Jerome saith,) when they had the commands of the Pulpits, ordaining of Preachers, children were baptized by them, men put to receive the communion of them; as Hilary and Basil say, the Orthodox were hatched under the wings of the Arian Priests; yet upon a reformation, and the renouncing of that heresy, we read not of any rejecting of the succeeding Ministers, because they were derived through such hands, which I conceive to have been as bad as the Bishop of Rome, and ⟨p. 231⟩his followers. The Church then was so wise as to consider, a jewel looseth not his virtue by being delivered by a foul hand, so neither is the treasure of the Ministry to be despised, because it hath passed through some polluted vessels to us, which is appliable for the saving harmless our ordination, though transmitted through the Popish defilements of some persons; so much in vindicating the ordination of the Church of England, from the scandal of being Popish & Antichristian, with which by some ignorant and rash people, it is frequently aspersed.
3. Nay, under the Gospel, about four hundred years after our Saviour Christ, was not the world so over-run with Arrians, that it groaned under it? (as St. Ierom saith,) when they had the commands of the Pulpits, ordaining of Preachers, children were baptized by them, men put to receive the communion of them; as Hilary and Basil say, the Orthodox were hatched under the wings of the Arrian Priests; yet upon a reformation, and the renouncing of that heresie, we read not of any rejecting of the succeeding Ministers, because they were derived through such hands, which I conceive to have been as bad as the Bishop of Rome, and ⟨p. 231⟩his followers. The Church then was so wise as to consider, a jewel looseth not his vertue by being delivered by a foul hand, so neither is the treasure of the Ministry to be despised, because it hath passed through some polluluted vessels to us, which is appliable for the saving harmlesse our ordination, though transmitted through the Popish defilements of some persons; so much in vindicating the ordination of the Church of England, from the scandall of being Popish & Antichristian, with which by some ignorant and rash people, it is frequently aspersed.