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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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And so more fully thus. Receive the Holy Ghost, i. e. receive Authority from the Father, Son, ⟨p. 241⟩and Holy Ghost, for the efficacious preaching of the Word, and Administration of Sacraments, by and through which, the graces of the holy spirit in repentance, faith, forgiveness of sins, and the like; are ordinarily wrought and confirmed to the hearers, and partakers of them: yet not excluding it from being a Prayer also, viz. that the person thus authorized, might receive such a spiritual assistance in it.
And so more fully thus. Receive the Holy Ghost, i. e. receive Authority from the Father, Son, ⟨p. 241⟩and Holy Ghost, for the efficacious preaching of the Word, and Administration of Sacraments, by and through which, the graces of the holy spirit in repentance, faith, forgivenesse of sins, and the like; are ordinarily wrought and confirmed to the hearers, and partakers of them: yet not excluding it from being a Prayer also, viz. that the person thus authorized, might receive such a spiritual assistance in it.
Receive first by way of donation in the name of Christ, as to the office; and secondly, by way of impetration, as to the efficacious spiritual assistance of him in it, which the accustomed succeeding prayer did confirm: which as it was in both senses frequently effectual by the mouth and hands of the Apostles, so hath it been ⟨p. 242⟩accordingly from age to age, in and by the Ministry succeeding, and therefore why may not the same form of words be used at their Ordination also.
Receive first by way of donation in the name of Christ, as to the office; and secondly, by way of impetration, as to the efficacious spiritual assistance of him in it, which the accustomed succeeding prayer did confirm: which as it was in both senses frequently effectual by the mouth and hands of the Apostles, so hath it been