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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now for the New Testament, ye have a President for it; (which is above all Presidents) in our blessed Saviour, who gave a form to his disciples, (Luke 11, 1.) When ye pray, say, not only (as Matthew 6.) say after this manner, or say thus; but say this. In Saint Matthew, he gives a form to the people, and disciples together, which was before he sent them forth to preach; (for that was not, till cap. 10.) In Saint Luke he gives his disciples a Form, after he had made them preachers and Apostles, cap. 9. 1. and after the 72 were sent ⟨p. 299⟩out also, cap. 10. 1. and both returned from preaching through the Cities of Israel, see how both people and Teachers are allowed a set Form, and it seems John Baptist had done the like by the ground of their requests, Teach us as John taught his disciples. They were not then for New, and different ways from the Church before, or coaetaneous with them, but for a conformity, that it might appear John Baptist disciples, and they were one Church, and one body. A good example for us to follow, not to aim at a Singularity, or a division between other Churches, and us, but to draw as near as we can to a Conjunction with them, in having one heart, and one tongue. Seek not ways never before thought of, but tread in the steps of the precedent ⟨p. 300⟩times, as the Disciples did here teach us, as John taught his.
Now for the New Testament, yee have a President for it; (which is above all Presidents) in our blessed Saviour, who gave a form to his disciples, (Luke 11, 1.) When ye pray, say, not only (as Matthew 6.) say after this manner, or say thus; but say this. In Saint Matthew, he gives a form to the people, and disciples together, which was before he sent them forth to preach; (for that was not, till cap. 10.) In Saint Luke he gives his disciples a Form, after he had made them preachers and Apostles, cap. 9. 1. and after the 72 were sent ⟨p. 299⟩