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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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3. He doth not only prescribe a form of words in prayer, but in the Sacraments. 1. Baptism. (Mat. 28.) Go and Baptise them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. Which Form of words, the ancient Church ever observed without any variation, as containing (with the Element of water) the ⟨p. 305⟩matter and form of Baptism, and in the Lords Supper; the three Evangelists give us his very words, used by him in the Consecration of it, and is commended to the Church of Corinth by Saint Paul, who received it from the Lord also, and surely are to be accordingly used by us.
3. He doth not only prescribe a form of words in prayer, but in the Sacraments. 1. Baptisme. (Mat. 28.) Go and Baptise them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. Which Form of words, the ancient Church ever observed without any variation, as containing (with the Element of water) the ⟨p. 305⟩matter and form of Baptisme, and in the Lords Supper; the three Evangelists give us his very words, used by him in the Consecration of it, and is commended to the Church of Corinth by Saint Paul, who received it from the Lord also, and surely are to be accordingly used by us.
4. 'Tis observable how he himself observed the set Forms, used by the Jews at the Passover, both in prayer and praises, see Beza (on Matth. 26. 20.) and Ainsworth (on Exodus 12.) granting it, and that the wood [Greek or Hebrew], John 16. ult. should be rendered; having sung the Hymns or Psalms, which they ay were a set portion of Psalms of praises (which the Jews call their great Hallelujah) from the 113. Psalm to the 118. as also divers others of our learned