A64635:274
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.
The second clause is, whose sins thou forgivest, they are forgiven, whose sins thou doest retain, they are retained. At which, as much, if not more offence hath been taken, then at the former, (as if it savoured of Popery) which • shall give you the Primates sense of also. That it may be retained in ordination, and attributed ⟨p. 253⟩safely to the office of the Ministry, without the least savour that way, which no man that knew him, and what Popery is, but will acquit him of the least grain of it.
The second clause is, whose sins thou forgivest, they are forgiven, whose sins thou doest retain, they are retained. At which, as much, if not more offence hath been taken, then at the former, (as if it savoured of Popery) which • shall give you the Primates sense of also. That it may be retained in ordination, and attributed ⟨p. 253⟩safely to the office of the Ministery, without the least savour that way, which no man that knew him, and what Popery is, but will acquit him of the least grain of it.
Thus far it will be granted §1by all sober persons.
1. The Ministers may be said to remit sins, by way of preparative to it; in being the instruments (by preaching the word of reconciliation) to dispose men towards it in bringing them to repentance, whereby they are capable of it.