A64635:281
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.
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. Psal. 32. 5. produced by our Saviour, Matth. 9. to prove his Deity, which is accordingly averred by all antiquity.
But the Papists attribute as much to the Bishop of Rome, affirming, aThat in him there is a fullness of all graces, and he gives a full indulgence of all sins, that to him agrees that which we give to our Lord, that of his fullness, all we have received; and not much less to the meanest Priest; viz. That his absolution ⟨p. 259⟩is such a Sacramental Act, that it confers grace; actively, and immediately, and effects the grace of Justification, that as the wind doth extinguish the fire, and dispel Clouds, so doth his absolution, sins, and by it Attrition becomes Contrition.
But the Papists attribute as much to the Bishop of Rome, affirming, aThat in him there is a fulnesse of all graces, and he gives a full indulgence of all sins, that to him agrees that which we give to our Lord, that of his fulnesse, all we have received; and not much lesse to the meanest Priest; viz. That his absolution