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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
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Hence it is, that these two, My people, and Israel; are used indifferently in the same Sentence, as Psalm 57: Hear O my people O Israel, and so in many other places;1 yet even amongst these there is some time a difference put,2 for all that are of Israel are not counted ⟨p. 40⟩Gods People, to some of them it is said,3 Hear the Word of the Lord ye Rulers of Sodom, give ear ye People of Gomorrah: And for an upbraiding of their continual rebellions against the Lord, the Prophet Hosea is bidden to name one of his sons,4 Lo-mmi, ye are not my people; and when to all other their Rebellions they rejected, yea crucified the Lord of Glory, the Lord also rejected them, and as he threatened by his Prophet,5 called his servants by another name, Christians: Even these also are in a different manner so called; sometimes all that are within the Covenant of Grace, and the Sacraments thereof are called Christs People; sometimes those that he hath foreknown, and that are within the grace of the Covenant;6 God hath not cast away his People whom he foreknew according ⟨p. 41⟩to that:7 I will put my Law into their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, I will be their God and they shall be my People. And these are those here most properly spoken unto, as appears, because the Motives here used the fear of partaking in sin and punishment, most properly work upon these, besides these being oppressed & holden in Captivity by the mystical Babylon here spoken of are in the 6. Verse Exhorted to cry her quittance in the same words almost which the ancient Church of Israel useth concerning the old Babel: