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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And first for the Connection and Declaration of the Sense, you shall be pleased to understand, that in the former Chapter, Saint John is showed a sight whereat he wondered with great marvel.1 A woman sitting upon a Scarlet coloured beast, full of names of Blasphemy, which had seven heads and ten horns; this woman had in her fore-head a name written, Babylon the great, the Mother of harlots and Abominations of the Earth. And in the rest of the Chapter the Mystery of the Woman, and the beast that bare her, being largely declared and one thing amongst the rest,2 that she sits on seven hills,) the Conclusion is,3 That she is the great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth. In this Chapter Saint John proceeds in the same ⟨p. 36⟩ter, and tells, how he saw first a mighty Angel descending from Heaven and proclaiming the fall of this Babylon, (Verse 2. 3.) and towards the end of the Chapter, to confirm the matter with a sign, another mighty Angel takes up a Millstone and throws it into the Sea, with this word with like violence Babylon shall be thrown, and no more be found. 4In the middest between the Voices of these two Angels is inserted a long Speech, uttered also by a Voice from Heaven, beginning at this fourth Verse which I have now read and extending to the twenty ninth, partly admonishing Gods People to come out of this Babylon in time, 5partly describing her pride and security going before her destruction, partly bringing in as it were the Funeral Song,6 that is, sung for her by her ⟨p. 73⟩followers and Lovers partly exhorting7 Heaven with those that dwell therein to rejoice at her ruin.