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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
The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ire… › The second Position.
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The second Position.
That by this great City Babylon (the Mother of all the abominations of the earth) is understood Rome.
THat by this great City Babylon (the Mother of all the abominations of the earth) is understood Rome.
Proof.
1. BY the clear Testimony of Scripture, in the seventeen Chapter of the Revelation; where this City is described unto us, First by the situation; that it is seated upon seven Hills, (v. 9. 18.) and then by the largeness of the Dominion thereof; That it is that great City that ruleth over the Kings of the earth, (v. 18.) Now that by these two marks Rome was most notoriously known in the Apostles days, may appear even by the Roman Poets, who describe Rome just after ⟨p. 4⟩the same manner, asd Ovid; Sed quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Montibus, imperii Roma Deumque locus.