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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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No doubt, but these worthy reformers, Hezekiah, and Isaiah, were able to have framed prayers, ⟨p. 297⟩and praises of their own; and that suddenly, (as Hezekiah seems to have done at a special occasion in the Temple, 1 Kings 19. 14. both of them 2 Chron. 32. 20. in their private) but for the public settled constitutions, they rather chose to use those Forms which were used in the Church many ages before in Davids time; see then a respect to Antiquity, not only in Doctrine, but in the Forms of prayer framed by the Saints before them. And surely if it were pleasing unto God then, according to the Counsel of the Prophet Hosea to the Israelites in their repentance, (cap. 14. 2. take to your selves words, and say thus unto him?) why should it not be now? he being yesterday, and to day, and the sa•e for ever. (Ezra 3. 10.) The like ⟨p. 298⟩was observed after the Captivity, at the repairing of the Temple, when Ezra appointed the Lord to be praised after the Ordinance of David King of Israel. So much for the Old Testament.
No doubt, but these worthy reformers, Hezekiah, and Isaiah, were able to have framed prayers, ⟨p. 297⟩and praises of their own; and that suddenly, (as Hezekiah seems to have done at a special occasion in the Temple, 1 Kings 19. 14. both of them 2 Chron. 32. 20. in their private) but for the publick setled constitutions, they rather chose to use those Formes which were used in the Church many ages before in Davids time; see then a respect to Antiquity, not only in Doctrine, but in the Forms of prayer framed by the Saints before them. And surely if it were pleasing unto God then, according to the Counsell of the Prophet Hoseah to the Israelites in their repentance, (cap. 14. 2. take to your selves words, and say thus unto him?) why should it not be now? he being yesterday, and to day, and the sae for ever. (