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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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And the like may be said of the binding part of their office called here, retaining of sins. Do we not read how the Ministers are sometimes brought in like those seven Angels in the book of the Revelation, which pour out the Vials of Gods wrath upon the earth. Saint Paul saith, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 273⟩10. 6. he had vengeance in readiness against all disobedience, yet vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord; what other sense can it be but this? he is said to be the inflicter, because he was in Christs name the denouncer? even as Jeremiah, (cap. 1. 10.) is said to be set over the Nations, and Kingdoms to pluck up, and to pull down, to destroy, and to root out; because God had put these words in his mouth, and was ordained by him as a Prophet to pronounce destruction to them accordingly, or as Ezekiel (cap. 43. 3.) is said to have destroyed the City, by being said to pronounce destruction to it. The Primate observes, that we often meet with these speeches concerning the Leprosy (which was a Type of the pollution of ⟨p. 274⟩sin) the Priest shall cleanse him, the Priest shall pollute him (Lev. 13.) according to the Hebrew, and the Greek version; and out ofa Saint Jerome, that 'tis said, verse 44. the Priest with pollution, shall pollute him, not that he is the Author of his pollution, but that he declares him to be polluted, and unclean; whereupon the Master of the sentences, and others do observe,b that in remitting, and retaining of sins, the Priests of the Gospel have the like power, and office, which the Priests of old had under the Law in curing the Lepers, who therefore accordingly may be said to forgive, and retain sins, whilst they show, and declare, ⟨p. 275⟩they are forgiven, or retained of God