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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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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, Acts 12.) were not long after; No surely, this oil poured upon their heads, descended further then so, even to the skirts of their garments, in these days.
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 Iames, Acts 12.) were not long after; No surely, this oyle poured upon their heads, descended further then so, even to the skirts of their garments, in these dayes.
The third Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians, hath ⟨p. 243⟩much in confirmation of this. In the third verse, Saint Paul styles the Minister ordained by Christ, his Amanuensis; ye are the Epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. Christ the inditer, the Minister is as the hand of a ready writer; or the Spirit is as the ink, the Minister as the pen, through which 'tis diffused upon the fleshly Tables of your hearts, and by saying us, he doth not appropriate it to himself, but gives the like to Timothy ordained by him, which he continues in the sixth verse; God hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit; as he calls the Word, the sword of the spirit (Ephes. 6.) committed into the hands of the Ministry, ⟨p. 244⟩so the whole office is called the Ministration of the Spirit, v. 8. the Ministration of righteousness, v. 9. i. e. instrumentally, be it that of Justification, or Sanctification, by which he saith, it did exceed in glory that under the law; The shining of Moses face, the glory of the Temple, and vestments of the Priests were glorious, but yet had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory which excelleth; for if that which is done away were glorious, how much more that which remaineth, is glorious. Now wherein lieth this glory, but in being by this Ministration, the Conduits through which the Spirit is conveyed, and received, or being (cap. 6. 1.) co-workers together with him of it, even as the glory of the latter Temple, by the presence of Christ