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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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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 ⟨p. 242⟩accordingly from age to age, in and by the Ministery succeeding, and therefore why may not the same form of words be used at their Ordination also.
Can we think this solemn reception of the Holy Ghost, in that sense as hath been explained, was only for the benefit of that age, and withdrawn totally again in the next.
Can we think this solemn reception of the Holy Ghost, in that sense as hath been explained, was onely for the benefit of that age, and withdrawn totally again in the next.
That his being with them thus by his spiritual assistance, to the end of the world, was to determine with the death of the Apostles; some of which, (as Saint James,