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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 third Position. › Proof.
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1. The matter of Babylon is revealed unto Saint John as a mystery, Apoc •7. 6. But the persecution of the Church by the Heathen Emperor was far from being a mystery: For it being openly committed,1 Saint John himself at the same time being a companion with the rest of the Saints in this tribulation (banished for the Word of God, and for the witnessing of Jesus Christ into the Island Patmos:) this could not be showed as a secret and mystical thing. And therefore some further matter, not then openly known to the world must here be intended.
1. THe matter of Babylon is revealed unto Saint John as a mysterie, Apoc •7. 6. But the persecution of the Church by the Heathen Emperour was far from being a mysterie: For it being openly committed,1 Saint Iohn himself at the same time being a companion with the rest of the Saints in this tribulation (banished for the Word of God, and for the witnessing of Iesus Christ into the Iland Pathmos:) this could not be shewed as a secret and mystical thing. And therefore some further matter, not then openly known to the world must here be intended.
- 1Apo•. 1▪ 9.
2. The state of Babylon after her fall, is thus declared, Apoc. 18. 2. […] is fallen, it is fallen, Babylon the great City is become the habitation of Devils, & the hold of all foul spirits, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird; for all Nations have drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her, &c. If Heathen Rome only were Babylon, it would follow that upon the fall thereof in the days of Constantine the Emperor, Rome professing the Faith of Christ should then become the habitation of Devils, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Which being a most gross and absurd imagination, it must needs be granted, that after the days of the Christian Emperor, the faithful City should become a harlot;