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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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Let me conclude with this short admonition. Be not hereafter so unworthy, as to blur that Ministry, with being Antichristian, by whom ye have received the knowledge of Christ; ⟨p. 232⟩both by their translating of the Scriptures out of the Originals, into your Mother-tongue for your reading, and their labour, in the exposition of them for your understanding, by whom you and your fathers have been baptized, and instructed; Be not such ill birds, as thus to defile your own nests; do not side with the agents of the Bishop of Rome, in thus detracting and lessening the reputation and esteem of them. Let them not say in their hearts, so would we have it, nor you with your tongues, unless in your hearts you are Romish your selves.
Let me conclude with this short admonition. Be not hereafter so unworthy, as to blurre that Ministery, with being Antichristian, by whom ye have received the knowledge of Christ; ⟨p. 232⟩both by their translating of the Scriptures out of the Originalls, into your Mother-tongue for your reading, and their labour, in the exposition of them for your understanding, by whom you and your fathers have been baptized, and instructed; Be not such ill birds, as thus to defile your own nests; do not side with the agents of the Bishop of Rome, in thus detracting and lessening the reputation and esteem of them. Let them not say in their hearts, so would we have it, nor you with your tongues, unlesse in your hearts you are Romish your selves.
Is it not strange, that those who have been so great opposers of the errors of Popery, wrote so learnedly, and fully against them, who have applied, that in the ⟨p. 233⟩2 Epist of the Thessalonians, concerning the man of sin, and that of Babylon in 17. Revel. to the Papacy, as Bishop Downham, Abbot, Jewell, and the late eminent Primate, with divers others; that now they should (with their very calling and profession) be styled Popish; can we think otherwise, but that the hand of Joab (I mean the Jesuit) is privily in it. Is it not a wonder it should so come about, that such as have been the greatest enemies to the See of Rome, should be reckoned as members, and friends of it; and thus perpetually yoked together as twins; nay trod under foot as unsavoury salt, upon that very account, as being Episcopal. Is this a just reward of their labour? in the defence of your profession; thus to be aspersed by you, as Absalom