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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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This Subject hath been so sufficiently discussed and determined by others, that no new thing can be expected from me, only you have here the Judgement and Approbation of this eminent Primate, which being of so great esteem with all ⟨p. 277⟩good men; 'tis possible now upon near an even scale of mens opinions in it, his may be of that weight, as to give satisfaction.
THis Subject hath been so sufficiently discussed and determined by others, that no new thing can be expected from me, onely you have here the Iudgement and Approbation of this eminent Primate, which being of so great esteem with all ⟨p. 277⟩good men; 'tis possible now upon near an even scale of mens opinions in it, his may be of that weight, as to give satisfaction.
First, that the Use of a set Form of Prayer, is not a setting up of any new doctrine, as the Athenians judged of Saint Paul, appears in that 'tis the practise of the Belgic Churches, for which ye have the determination of the Divines of Leiden, Polyander, Rivetus, Wala'us, Thysius; in theira Synopsis Theologiae: And the resolution of Mr. Aims our countryman (who lived and died a Professor of Divinity among them) in his cases of conscience, who saith, 'tis blawful from the approved practice of the ⟨p. 288⟩Saints in the Psalms, and other Forms of blessing in the Scripture; nay profitable and necessary for some, though it be read out of a book.
First, that the Vse of a set Form of Prayer, is not a setting up of any new doctrine, as the Athenians judged of Saint Paul, appeares in that 'tis the practise of the Belgick Churches, for which ye have the determination of the Divines of Leyden, Polyander, Rivetus, Wala'us, Thysius; in their