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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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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⟩the counsel of Eliphaz is is good, Job 8. Enquire I pray thee of the former ages, and prepare thy self for the search of their Fathers (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing;) shall not they teach thee; &c. as that of the Prophet Jeremiah (cap. 6. 19.) ask for the old way, and walk therein; which may well rebuke the presumption of some, who are so led by their own fancies, that the Ancient Fathers are of no exemplary esteem with them. Only I may safely represent this to the consideration of any ingenuous person; that if it were the practice of the Church of God in all ages for 1500 (or but 1300) years after Christ, not only of the vulgar, but of such as were glorious Martyrs, and the most eminent Preachers ⟨p. 292⟩of former and later years, with whom the holy spirit did much abound, doth not the assertion of the contrary condemn the generation of the just, or at least argue a bold presumptuous censure of the spirits of just men now made perfect in heaven. This only by way of preparative to the Readers attention, that there is no singularity 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 Praier 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 lawfull 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 doubtlesse