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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.
This is the Order now for the meaning of the words, that shall appear best by resolving three Questions. 1. Whose this Voice is? 2. To whom it speaks? And 3. What? We need not be long to seek Who it is that speaks; For both those that speak before and after are expressly called Angels, and he that now speaks lacks that Addition, and the interest that he challengeth in those that are spoken to, calling them My People, showeth plainly (to use the words of our blessed Author in his speech to Peter at the Sea of Tiberias) It is the Lord. 1And albeit those relations between the Lord and his People are often mentioned in Scripture, without any ⟨p. 38⟩restraint to any one person in the blessed Trinity, yet because he that here speaks telleth of the Lord Gods judging the great City, Verse the 8. As of another and third person, Strong is the Lord God that judgeth her. And again, Verse 20. Speaking to the Prophets and Apostles, saith, God hath avenged you on her. It is evident that he who hear speaks is the Mediator, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who carries his people not in his mind only, but in the Explication of his name, Matthew 1. 21. He shall save his People from their sins. Whereto it fitly agrees that this Voice is uttered, From Heaven, where our Lord Jesus is at the right hand of God: We see the speaker, now who are spoken unto Christs People: There is no doubt, but in some Sense all the World are Christs People, His ⟨p. 39⟩Inheritance, his Possession. 2And so much is often expressly expressed,3 But yet the Scripture in many places intimateth, that this phrase restraineth from the World to some particular and choice people,4 namely Israel, The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all People that are upon the face of the Earth. So Chapter 10. The Lords portion is his People, Jacob the lot of his Inheritance;