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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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First, the Primate complains of the wrong done by the Papists in charging us with denying any power to be left by Christ to the Priests, or Ministers of the Church, to forgive sins, being the formal words which our Church requireth to be used in the Ordination of a Minister, and there states the question between them & us; That in the general, it was ever the doctrine of our Church, that the principal office of our Ministry is exercised in the forgiveness of sins, as the means, and end of it. The Question is of the manner of the execution, and the Bounds of it, ⟨p. 258⟩which the Pope, and his Clergy have enlarged beyond all measure of truth and reason.
First, the Primate complains of the wrong done by the Papists in charging us with denying any power to be left by Christ to the Priests, or Ministers of the Church, to forgive sins, being the formal words which our Church requireth to be used in the Ordination of a Minister, and there states the question between them & us; That in the general, it was ever the doctrine of our Church, that the principal office of our Ministery is excercised in the forgivenesse of sins, as the means, and end of it. The Question is of the manner of the execution, and the Bounds of it, ⟨p. 258⟩which the Pope, and his Clergy have enlarged beyond all measure of truth and reason.
We say, that to forgive sins properly, directly, and absolutely, is Gods propriety only; Isaiah 43. 25. Psal. 32. 5. produced by our Saviour, Matth. 9. to prove his Deity, which is accordingly averred by all antiquity.
We say, that to forgive sinnes properly, directly, and absolutely, is Gods propriety onely; Esay 43. 25.