A64635:395
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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For Mr. Thornedick's Testimony, I see not wherein it differeth from the Lord Primate's Letter published, and needs no further answer. So that upon the whole I do not find, even by these Certificates, so sure a ground, for your assertion of my Lord Primate's change of judgement, and his being of late a serious convert, &c. as you have supposed; The first ⟨p. 369⟩pretend but little, the last less, and the middle not much; thus interpreted: Howsoever for my self, had I been an ear-witness of that which certifies the most largely, I should have had more caution then to have adventured to signify the judgement of so eminent a person, under hand, and seal, (as you say you have it) without his knowledge, or consent, whether when he was living, or since his death, especially in that which should seem to imply a contradiction, to what he had before said and wrote.
For Mr. Thornedick's Testimony, I see not wherein it differeth from the Lord Primate's Letter published, and needs no further answer. So that upon the whole I do not find, even by these Certificates, so sure a ground, for your assertion of my Lord Primate's change of judgement, and his being of late a serious convert, &c. as you have supposed; The first ⟨p. 369⟩pretend but little, the last less, and the middle not much; thus interpreted: Howsoever for my self, had I been an ear-witnesse of that which certifies the most largely, I should have had more caution then to have adventured to signifie the judgement of so eminent a person, under hand, and seale, (as you say you have it) without his knowledge, or consent, whether when he was living, or since his death, especially in that which should seem to imply a contradiction, to what he had before said and wrot.
For that Objection of the 32 Article of Ireland, that Article may very well admit of some preparative motions tending to conversion, but not the actual grace of conversion; and may also be understood of denying an actual ⟨p. 370⟩