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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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3. Declaratively in testifying ⟨p. 255⟩this grace of God, and declaring Gods good pleasure accordingly upon repentance unto the person, like that of Nathan to David, or Saint Peter to his Auditory (Acts 3.) as Ferus saith, bman doth not properly forgive sin, but doth declare, and certify that it is remitted of God, so that absolution received from man, is as much to say, behold my son, I certify thee, that thy sins are forgiven thee. I declare unto thee that God is at peace with thee, (which I relate the rather out of him both for his being a writer of the Church of Rome, and that this passage is purged out of his book by them as erroneous, as may be seen by comparing the Edition of Mentz, with ⟨p. 256⟩the Edition at Antwerp, 1559, and 1570) Which agrees with that in the Articles of Religion of Ireland, num. 71. God hath given power to his Ministers, not simply to forgive sins (which prerogative he hath reserved only to himself) but in his name to declare and pronounce unto such as truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his Holy Gospel, the absolution, and remission of sins.
3. Declaratively in testifying ⟨p. 255⟩this grace of God, and declaring Gods good pleasure accordingly upon repentance unto the person, like that of Nathan to David, or Saint Peter to his Auditory (Acts 3.) as Ferus saith, bman doth not properly forgive sin, but doth declare, and certifie that it is remitted of God, so that absolution received from man, is as much to say, behold my son, I certifie thee, that thy sins are forgiven thee. I declare unto thee that God is at peace with thee, (which I relate the rather out of him both for his being a writer of the Church of Rome, and that this passage is purged out of his book by them as erroneous, as may be seen by comparing the Edition of Mentz, with