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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.
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.
He was a careful observer of the Lords Day both in the public and private, at one of the clock in the after-noon; he had then ⟨p. 352⟩the Book of Common-Prayer read in the Irish tongue in the Church for the benefit of the Irish; at which he was constantly present himself, who in that little space had obtained the knowledge of the language. And as the New Testament had been long before translated into Irish; so had he caused the Old Testam. to be accordingly, & was almost ready for the press.
He was a careful observer of the Lords Day both in the publick and private, at one of the clock in the after-noon; he had then ⟨p. 352⟩the Book of Common-Prayer read in the Irish tongue in the Church for the benefit of the Irish; at which he was constantly present himself, who in that little space had obtained the knowledge of the language. And as the New Testament had been long before translated into Irish; so had he caused the Old Testam. to be accordingly, & was almost ready for the press.
And Whereas Doctor Heylene hath censured the late Primate very liberally for his approbation of the Articles of Ireland, he must take Bishop Bedell into the number also, who was so much for them, that I was present when, at the examination of an* able Minister then to be ordained, he did in the Church examine him in each, or most of the Articles, in a solemn meeting of the Clergy of that Diocese ⟨p. 353⟩for that end, at least 2 full hours, whereby our votes might be also given for his approbation.
And Whereas Doctor Heylene hath censured the late Primate very liberally for his approbation of the Articles of Ireland, he must take Bishop Bedell into the number also, who was so much for them, that I was present when, at the examination of an