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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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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* able Minister then to be ordained, he did in the Church examin him in each, or most of the Articles, in a solemn meeting of the Clergy of that Diocesse ⟨p. 353⟩for that end, at least 2 full hours, whereby our votes might be also given for his approbation.
- *Mr. Thomas Price then Fellow of the College of Dublin, who afterwards suffered much in the same Diocese by the Rebellion of Ireland, and is yet living in Wales.Mr. Thomas Price then Fellow of the Colledge of Dublin, who afterwards suffered much in the same Diocesse by the Rebellion of Ireland, and is yet living in Wales.
At his Courts of Jurisdiction, he frequently sate himself; where he caused always some of the Clergy, (if any were there) to sit covered on each side of him, with liberty to give their opinion in each case, and at a sentence, he asked their votes man by man: In some degree reducing then his Episcopal to a Synodical Government, according to the Primates proposal by way of accommodation an. 1641. It was his custom usually on the Lord's days, to preach upon those select portions of Scripture commonly called the Epistles and Gospels of the day.