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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.
3. Receive the Holy Ghost] i. e. receive §3Ministerial power of officiating and dispensing those sacred Ministrations, unto which the promise of the holy Spirit is annexed, and through which, as the Conduit-Pipes, this holy water is conveyed; not so much meant for their own benefit, as the good of others; In this he gave them power as the Stewards of God, to be dispensers of holy and spiritual things, to the benefit of such, over whom the Holy Ghost had made them overseers, which is accordingly attributed to the ⟨p. 240⟩Elders of Ephesus, whom S. Paul had ordained.
3. Receive the Holy Ghost] i. e. receive §3Ministeriall power of officiating and dispensing those sacred Ministrations, unto which the promise of the holy Spirit is annexed, and through which, as the Conduit-Pipes, this holy water is conveyed; not so much meant for their own benefit, as the good of others; In this he gave them power as the Stewards of God, to be dispensers of holy and spiritual things, to the benefit of such, over whom the Holy Ghost had made them overseers, which is accordingly attributed to the ⟨p. 240⟩Elders of Ephesus, whom S. Paul had ordained.
Mr. Hooker's gloss (in his Eccles. Polit.) is accordingly; Receive the Holy Ghost, i. e. Accipite potestatem spiritualem, receive ghostly, or spiritual Authority, in order to the souls of men now to be committed to your charge; And if you mark the context, their Commission is here from the blessed Trinity; the Father, and Son, in the verse before. As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. And in this verse, a reception of Authority from the third person, the Father sends, Matth. 9. 38. Chap. 10. 20. the Son,