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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. 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.
Doctor Preston (who used a set Form of Prayer before Sermon) in that Sermon of his preached before King James, Text, John 1. 16. Of his fullness we have all received, &c. p. 22. saith thus. That a set form is lawful, much ⟨p. 328⟩need not be said, the very newness of the contrary opinion is enough to show the vanity and falsehood of it. It is contrary to the approved judgement of approved Councils, learned Fathers, and the continual practice of the Church. He instanceth in Tertullians time, and Origen, Saint Basil, Ambrose. Constantine the Great prescribed a set form of prayer to his soldiers, and Calvin in his 83. Epist. to the Protector of England, saith, that he doth greatly allow a set form of Ecclesiastical prayer, which the Minister shall be bound to observe. But (as I said before) of the lawfulness of it, there is no Question.
Doctor Preston (who used a set Form of Prayer before Sermon) in that Sermon of his preached before King Iames, Text, Iohn 1. 16. Of his fulnesse we have all received, &c. p. 22. saith thus. That a set form is lawfull, much ⟨p. 328⟩need not be said, the very newnesse of the contrary opinion is enough to shew the vanitie and falshood of it. It is contrary to the approved judgement of approved Councells, learned Fathers, and the continual practice of the Church. He instanceth in Tertullians time, and Origen, Saint Basil, Ambrose. Constantine the Great prescribed a set form of prayer to his souldiers, and Calvine in his 83. Epist. to the Protectour of England, saith, that he doth greatly allow a set form of Ecclesiastical prayer, which the Minister shall be bound to observe. But (as I said before) of the lawfulnesse of it, there is no Question.