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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.
If the spirit was not obstructed in the pens of the Evangelists writing their Gospels, or with the Apostles in their several Epistles, then; notwithstanding both were done with labour, and study; why should our labour accordingly in the word and doctrine, by the pen or premeditation exclude it now: and if a set form doth not stint the spirit either in •inging, preaching, or writing of holy things; why must it be so injurious only to the spirit of prayer.
If the spirit was not obstructed in the pens of the Evangelists writing their Gospels, or with the Apostles in their several Epistles, then; notwithstanding both were done with labour, and studdy; why should our labour accordingly in the word and doctrine, by the pen or premeditation exclude it now: and if a set form doth not stint the spirit either in •inging, preaching, or writing of holy things; why must it be so injurious onely to the spirit of prayer.
3. But thirdly, if a set form be the stinting of the spirit, it must be either in the speaker or hearer. 1. Not in the speaker, for his spirit ⟨p. 311⟩may be the more at liberty to spiritual fervent enlargements, when there is no obstruction, or diversion by the work of the Invention in inditing of matter, and words, the unaptness, and unreadiness unto which in many, hath so disturbed them, and caused them to wander into such immethodical impertinent ways, that they have been far from the spirit of prayer.
3. But thirdly, if a set form be the stinting of the spirit, it must be either in the speaker or hearer. 1. Not in the speaker, for his spirit ⟨p. 311⟩may be the more at liberty to spirituall fervent enlargements, when there is no obstruction, or diversion by the work of the Invention in inditing of matter, and words, the unaptnesse, and unreadinesse unto which in many, hath so disturbed them, and caused them to wander into such immethodicall impertinet wayes, that they have been far from the spirit of prayer.