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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
Letter: Doctor Bernards Answer to Mr. Pierce's Fifth Letter containing three Certificates, prod…
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That the grace of Conversion was not irresistible, but that men did often resist and reject the same, may well stand with my Lord Primate's Judgement, and no ways opposite to this. viz. That it is so effectual, that by the decree of his election; It is not resisted by the elect, and therefore his dissent from Geneva (as Doctor Walton certifies) is to be understood of Beza, not of Calvin; nor of the Sublapsarian (as I have intimated before) and I conceive his concurrence with Bishop Overall, which he averreth him to have professed, is to be ⟨p. 366⟩understood as I have expressed it• for you know that Bishop Overall distinguished the Remonstrants opinion, and that which he is pleased to call the opinion of the Puritans; (which title I wish he had spared) from the doctrine of the Church of England, which joins the universality of redemption with the special intention of God, effectually to save the elect. This for Doctor Walton's Certificate.
That the grace of Conversion was not irresistable, but that men did often resist and reject the same, may well stand with my Lord Primate's Judgement, and no wayes opposite to this. viz. That it is so effectual, that by the decree of his election; It is not resisted by the elect, and therefore his dissent from Geneva (as Doctor Walton certifies) is to be understood of Beza, not of Calvin; nor of the Sublapsarian (as I have intimated before) and I conceive his concurrence with Bishop Overall, which he averreth him to have professed, is to be ⟨p. 366⟩understood as I have expressed it• for you know that Bishop Overall distinguished the Remonstrants opinion, and that which he is pleased to call the opinion of the Puritans; (which title I wish he had spared) from the doctrine of the Church of England, which joynes the universality of redemption with the speciall intention of God, effectually to save the elect. This for Doctor Walton's Certificate.