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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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The Primates judgement of the Sense and Use of the Form of words in the former Constitution, at the Ordination of Priests or Presbyters, defended, and enlarged. viz. Receive the Holy Ghost, whose sins thou forgivest, they are forgiven, and whose sins thou doest retain, they are retained. Which as an Appendix to the former subject, could not well be omitted.
The Primates judgement of the Sense and Vse of the Form of words in the former Constitution, at the Ordination of Priests or Presbyters, defended, and enlarged. viz. Receive the Holy Ghost, whose sins thou forgivest, they are forgiven, and whose sins thou doest retain, they are retained. Which as an Appendix to the former subject, could not well be omitted.
They are the words of our Saviour, John 20. 22. to the Apostles, and why they may not be continued to ⟨p. 237⟩their Successors, (who are to succeed in that office of the Ministry to the end of the world,) doth not yet appear; and 'tis possible, that the late offence taken against them to the disuse of them, may arise from a misapprehension of the sense of them; The Primates judgement of which I think fit to manifest, who in all his Ordinations, constantly observed them.
THey are the words of our Saviour, Iohn 20. 22. to the Apostles, and why they may not be continued to ⟨p. 237⟩