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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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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 ⟨p. 259⟩is such a Sacramental Act, that it confers grace; actively, and immediately, and effects the grace of Iustification, that as the wind doth extinguish the fire, and dispell Clouds, so doth his absolution, sins, and by it Attrition becomes Contrition.
- aIn summo P•ntifice esse pleni•ud•nem omnium grat•arum, quia i•se solus confert plenam indulgentiam omnium peccatorum & computet sibi quod de primo princi•e D•mino dicimus, quia de plenitudine ejus nos omnes accepimus, de Regim. Principum, lib. 3. cap. 10. inter opuscula Th•mae,