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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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For that which you write in your Postscript concerning my saying, that the doctrine of St. Augustine was confirmed, or inclined unto by the Primate in his works, if you observe the whole discourse, ⟨p. 374⟩it is only in relation to Pelagius and his disciples, and limited to those points in debate concerning the Primates judgement, whereof universal redemption and free will, were mentioned; not that by it I had obliged the Primate to be of Saint Augustine's judgement in all points besides: And for that particular of perseverance, which you instance in, it came not into my discourse in either of my Letters to Mr. Barlee, what he or Mr. Baxter have produced of the Primates apprehension; what was Saint Augustine's judgement in that point, cannot argue it was therefore his own; Indeed, Saint Augustine is variously conceived in it, in his several Tractates, and where he hath some expressions tending to ⟨p. 375⟩the final falling away of some who have been regenerated and justified; he is thus salved by others, who understand him either, de justificatis Sacramento tenus, or judicio charitatis, that they were such, or of some predispositions to regeneration, in some Moral reformation; not of a spiritual real conversion, which he denies to any reprobate.
For that which you write in your Postcript concerning my saying, that the doctrine of St. Augustine was confirmed, or inclined unto by the Primate in his works, if you observe the whole discourse, ⟨p. 374⟩it is onely in relation to Pelagius and his disciples, and limited to those points in debate concerning the Primates judgement, whereof universall redemption and free will, were mentioned; not that by it I had obliged the Primate to be of Saint Augustines judgement in all points besides: And for that particular of perseverance, which you instance in, it came not into my discourse in either of my Letters to Mr. Barlee, what he or Mr. Baxter have produced of the Primates apprehension; what was Saint Augustines judgement in that point, cannot argue it was therefore his own; Indeed, Saint Augustine is variously conceived in it, in his severall Tractates, and where he hath some expressions tending to ⟨p. 375⟩