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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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2. In the Censures of the Church, there is an exercise of this part of our function, which we maintain against the Montanists & Novatians, who deny any ministerial power of reconciling of such penitents, as had committed heinous sins, and receiving them to the Communion of the faithful, which is contrary to that of Saint Paul, (as 'tis generally expounded by antiquity) Gal. 6. 1. If any man be overtaken in a fault, (i. e. in a scandalous one) you who are spiritual, restore (i. e. upon his repentance) such a one in the spirit of meekness, as in the particular ⟨p. 265⟩of the Incestuous Corinthian, whom, as in the name and power of the Lord Jesus, he had bin excommunicated, by Saint Paul, and the Elders there, so upon his repentance, he was in the same name, and by the same power restored again, even by such, to whom was committed the Ministry of reconciliation, 2 Cor. 27. 10. &c. And indeed this loosening of men, is generally by the Fathers accounted a restoring them to the peace of the Church, and admitting them to the Lords Table again, as is evident by their frequent expressions that way, which the Primate doth declare.
2. In the Censures of the Church, there is an exercise of this part of our function, which we maintain against the Montanists & Novatians, who deny any ministeriall power of reconciling of such penitents, as had committed heynous sins, and receiving them to the Communion of the faithfull, which is contrary to that of Saint Paul, (as 'tis generally expounded by antiquity) Gal. 6. 1. If any man be overtaken in a fault, (i. e. in a scandalous one) you who are spiritual, restore (i. e. upon his repentance) such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, as in the particular ⟨p. 265⟩of the Incestuous Corinthian, whom, as in the name and power of the Lord Iesus, he had bin excommunicated, by Saint Paul, and the Elders there, so upon his repentance, he was in the same name, and by the same power restored again, even by such, to whom was committed the Ministery of reconciliation, 2 Cor. 27. 10. &c. And indeed this loosening of men, is generally by the Fathers accounted a restoring them to the peace of the Church, and admitting them to the Lords Table again, as is evident by their frequent expressions that way, which the Primate doth declare.