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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 surely the general custom and practice of the reformed Churches (which Saint Paul urgeth, 1 Cor. 11. 16. cap. 14. 33.) cannot be contemned by any sober Christian, unto which may be added, the judgement of diverse pious and eminent men of our own nation, and so esteemed by such as have asserted the contrary, whose judgements being too large to be inserted here, I shall defer them till the last, ⟨p. 280⟩who do very fully concur with the Primate in it.
And surely the general custome and practice of the reformed Churches (which Saint Paul urgeth, 1 Cor. 11. 16. cap. 14. 33.) cannot be contemned by any sober Christian, unto which may be added, the judgement of diverse pious and eminent men of onr own nation, and so esteemed by such as have asserted the contrary, whose judgements being too large to be inserted here, I shall deferre them till the last, ⟨p. 280⟩who do very fully concurre with the Primate in it.
Calvin was a wise and learned man, now as Beza tells us, it was his constant practice to use a set form of Prayer before Sermon, without alteration; So was it his advice in his Epistle to the Protector of England, in Edward the sixth's time, (which hath bin mentioned elsewhere) for the establishing of a set form of a Liturgy here, from which it might not be lawful for pastors to depart, both for the good of the more ignorant, preventing of an affected novelty in others, and the declaring of an unanimous consent in all the Churches. For which practice and advice, he had sufficient warrant from the President of the Ancient Fathers, in the Primitive times, which might be here also produced. And doubtless ⟨p. 281⟩