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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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1. For the first; (Receive the Holy Ghost) We do not here understand the sanctifying graces of the spirit: For the Apostles had received them before, in that they were bid by our Saviour, to ⟨p. 238⟩rejoice, that their names were written in heaven (the evidence of which is, heaven wrote in the heart here) and had his witness, that they had believed, and had kept his word, for whom he had also also prayed in that sense; Sanctify them through thy truth, John 17.
1. For the first; (Receive the Holy Ghost) We do not here understand the sanctifying graces of the spirit: For the Apostles had received them before, in that they were bid by our Saviour, to ⟨p. 238⟩rejoyce, that their names were written in heaven (the evidence of which is, heaven wrot in the heart here) and had his witnesse, that they had believed, and had kept his word, for whom he had also also prayed in that sense; Sanctifie them through thy truth, John 17.
And if this had been the gift, there had been no particular thing given to them, for all that will be saved, must in some measure partake of it. Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And though it be the testimony of a good Christian, yet 'tis not a sufficient warrant for him, to take upon him the Ministry.