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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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2. Our Saviour gave himself a form of words, Matth. 26. 44. he went away the third time, and prayed, saying the same words; it was at three several times, and with some distance between each; and which is more observable, it was at his Passion. In afflictions we are most apt for various expressions, yet even then, he that was the Wisdom of the Father, and excelled in language, the tongues of men, and Angels, and could have abounded in the variety of Elegance, yet varied not the phrase, but kept the same words; surely it was for our example, and to teach us that prayer consists not in words, but in the earnestness of affection; let ⟨p. 304⟩no man except against the use of the same prayer twice; Our Saviour used it thrice, and (as the Apostle saith) he was heard in what he prayed, and 'tis the observation of the aabove-named, that our Saviour observed a set form of prayer upon the Cross, used before by David, (Psal. 22. 1.) as in the Type, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me (as those words, Into thy hands I commend my Spirit; are out of Psal. 31. 5.)
2. Our Saviour gave himselfe a form of words, Matth. 26. 44. he went away the third time, and prayed, saying the same words; it was at three severall times, and with some distance between each; and which is more observable, it was at his Passion. In afflictions we are most apt for various expressions, yet even then, he that was the Wisdome of the Father, and excelled in language, the tongues of men, and Angels, and could have abounded in the variety of Elegancy, yet varied not the phrase, but kept the same words; surely it was for our example, and to teach us that prayer consists not in words, but in the earnestnesse of affection; let ⟨p. 304⟩no man except against the use of the same prayer twice; Our Saviour used it thrice, and (as the Apostle saith) he was heard in what he prayed, and 'tis the observation of the