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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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Now for Mr. Goninges, which seems (by the Preface of it) to have bin given you after your publishing the Lord Primate's change of judgment; somewhat of that may be safely granted; viz. The sincerity of God's universal call of all sinners to whom the Gospel was preached, which is the sum of what he affirms to have heard, ⟨p. 367⟩from him in the public, but for that which he saith he received from him in private, viz. That God, together with his word preached, did give internal grace to all that are called by it, that they may repent if they will, yea they all can will, &c. If the Primate's words were not mistaken by him, (as they might the more possibly by the distance between the hearing, and the date of his certificate to you) I suppose this was the sense of them, viz. That by internal grace he did not understand more, then that there are some good motions offered unto the hearts of sinners, which if they did not extinguish and resist, and thereby draw upon themselves a further guilt, they should be seconded with more effectual grace; and, that ⟨p. 368⟩upon their disobedience, God doth justly leave them to themselves, and doth not superadd that special grace, whereby their Wills are changed, and their conversion wrought. As for posse non resistere, it is consistent with actual resistance, which is taken away by special grace, and thus far I conceive he might hold with Bishop Overall; so much for Mr. Goninge.
Now for Mr. Goninges, which seems (by the Preface of it) to have bin given you after your publishing the Lord Primate's change of judgment; somewhat of that may be safely granted; viz. The sincerity of God's universal call of all sinners to whom the Gospel was preached, which is the summe of what he affirmes to have heard, ⟨p. 367⟩from him in the publick, but for that which he saith he received from him in private, viz. That God, together with his word preached, did give internal grace to all that are called by it, that they may repent if they will, yea they all can will, &c. If the Primate's words were not mistaken by him, (as they might the more possibly by the distance between the hearing, and the date of his certificate to you) I suppose this was the sense of them, viz. That by internall grace he did not understand more, then that there are some good motions offered unto the hearts of sinners, which if they did not extinguish and resist, and thereby draw upon themselves a further guilt, they should be seconded with more effectuall grace; and, that