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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
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.
Now having acquitted our Church of Popery, in retaining these words in Ordination, the Primate proceeds in showing the Ministers exercise of his function, in this particular; viz. Forgiveness of sins in these four things. 1. Prayer. 2. Censures of the Church. 3. Sacraments. 4. The word preached.
Now having acquitted our Church of Poperie, in retaining these words in Ordination, the Primate proceeds in shewing the Ministers exercise of his function, in this particular; viz. Forgivenesse of sins in these four things. 1. Prayer. 2. Censures of the Church. 3. Sacraments. 4. The word preached.
1. Prayer, Jam. 5. 14, 15. If any be sick, let him send for the Elders of the Church, & let them pray over him, and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him, and so ⟨p. 262⟩shows it to have been the judgement and practice of the Fathers and the ancientest of the Schoolmen, that the power of the Keys in this particular, is much exercised in our being petitioners to God; for the persons remission, not excluding the prayers of the whole Church in assisting them with theirs, for which cause in public offences, S. Augustine exhorts men to show their repentance accordingly, that the Church might pray with the Minister for them, for the more sure imparting of the benefit of absolution. And that before Thomas Aquinas time, the form of absolution was by prayer for the party, & that a learned man in his time found fault with that indicative form newly introduced. Then the form being not, I absolve thee, but absolutionem ⟨p. 263⟩& remissionem tribuat tibi omnipotens Deus, the Almighty God give unto thee absolution, and remission, &c. unto which the ancient Rituals of the Roman Church as the Greek, (according to that of Damascenes form, yet retained) doth agree; and 'tis the Primates observation, that the ancient Fathers never used any Indicative form, but always prayerwise; as ye have heard, according to which were the ancient Liturgies of the Latin, and Greek Churches; howsoever the Popish Priests now stand so much upon it, that they place the very essence and efficacy of that their Sacrament in it, in the first person, and not in the third.