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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.
Now there are two other things, which upon this occasion might not be unseasonable to speak a word of, according to the Primates judgement also. viz. Of the length or brevity in prayer, and of the Gesture at it; in both which, many of this age have gone astray.
1. For the length. In the public, all good discretion teacheth ordinarily not to be very large, (for we speak not now of extraordinary duties in public Fasts) because in a congregation, all the Auditors are not of the like strength. Some, (according to that distinction of John 1. Ep. 2. 13, 14.) may be Fathers, some young men, but ⟨p. 333⟩others Children fitter for milk then strong meat, that a long continuance at prayer may as ill suit with them, as putting of a new garment to an old, or new wine into old bottles.
1. For the length. In the publick, all good discretion teacheth ordinarily not to be very large, (for we speak not now of extraordinary duties in publick Fasts) because in a congregation, all the Auditours are not of the like strength. Some, (according to that distinction of Iohn 1. Ep. 2. 13, 14.) may be Fathers, some young men, but ⟨p. 333⟩others Children fitter for milke then strong meat, that a long continuance at prayer may as ill suit with them, as putting of a new garment to an old, or new wine into old bottles.
Jacobs speech in answer to his Brother Esau, when he would have had him driven on his pace with him (