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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. All the best reformed Churches do now, and ever have used, even in public Liturgies, prescript forms of prayer; and have judged them of great use and necessity for the edification of the Church: And surely this argument is not to be contemned by any sober Christian, as appeareth by the Apostles speech, 1 Cor. 11. 16. If any man seem to ⟨p. 327⟩be contentious, we have no such custom; neither the Churches of God: So doth he again press the example and practice of all the Churches of the Saints, 1 Cor. 14. 33.
2. All the best reformed Churches do now, and ever have used, even in publick Liturgies, prescript forms of prayer; and have judged them of great use and necessitie for the edification of the Church: And surely this argument is not to be contemned by any sober Christian, as appeareth by the Apostles speech, 1 Cor. 11. 16. If any man seem to ⟨p. 327⟩be contentious, we have no such custome; neither the Churches of God: So doth he again presse the example and practice of all the Churches of the Saints, 1 Cor. 14. 33.
3. This is no stinting, nor hinderance to the spirit of Prayer in any of Gods people, no more then the singing of praise to the Lord in the words of David, is now, and was in Hezekiahs time, 2 Chron. 29. 30. or the joining in heart with the words that another uttereth in conceived prayer: Thus far Mr. Hildersham.