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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
A CHARACTER of Bishop Bedell late Bishop of Kilmore, in Ireland.
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A CHARACTER of Bishop Bedell late Bishop of Kilmore, in Ireland.
Upon the occasion of publishing this Sermon of his (on Revel. 18. 4.) I have thought fit to give this exemplary character of him. Somewhat of his life is already extant, within that of Sir Henry Wotton's, the enlargement of which, I leave to the prudence of others, only thus much in brief.
UPon the occasion of publishing this Sermon of his (on Revel. 18. 4.) I have thought fit to give this exemplary character of him. Somewhat of his life is already extant, within that of Sir Henry Wotton's, the enlargement of which, I leave to the prudence of others, onely thus much in brief.
He was Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, where he was one of the eight that commenced Bachelors of Divinity ⟨p. 348⟩of that house in one year: whereof Bishop Hall and Doctor Ward were two, between whom and him, there was a continual intercourse of Letters to their last. From that College and University, he had that Character given him of learning, and prudence, that he was chosen to go with the Ambassador Sir Henry Wotton unto Venice. What the fruits of his some years being there produced upon Padre Paulo, and other learned men, sufficiently appears by the testimony given of him in a letter of the Ambassador's hereunto annexed. The Interdict of Venice (wrote by the foresaid Author,) he translated out of Italian into Latin, for whose use he also translated the book of Common Prayer into Italian, and made an English Grammar ⟨p. 349⟩