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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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That Babel was a City in Chaldea, standing by the River Euphrates, where by the occasion of the presumptuous Tower, the Languages of Mankind were confounded, Genesis 11. 10. The first seat of Nimrod's Tyranny, Chapter 10. 10. Nebuchadnezzar the King thereof carried thither Captive, Jehoiakim and with him Daniel and his companions, together with the vessels of the House of God; about some twelve years after Zedekiah also was carried away Captive to the same place, Jerusalem burnt, the Temple desolated, and the whole people in a manner carried out of their own ⟨p. 43⟩land to the same place of Babel, where they continued seventy years unto the overthrow of the Babylonian Monarchy by Cyrus.
That Babel was a City in Chaldea, standing by the River Euphrates, where by the occasion of the presumptious Tower, the Languages of Mankinde were confounded, Genesis 11. 10. The first seate of Nymrods Tyranny, Chapter 10. 10. Nebuchadnezer the King thereof carried thither Captive, Iehoiakim and with him Daniel and his companions, together with the vessels of the House of God; about some twelve years after Zedekiah also was carried away Captive to the same place, Ierusalem burnt, the Temple desolated, and the whole people in a manner carried out of their own ⟨p. 43⟩land to the same place of Babel, where they continued seventy years unto the overthrow of the Babylonian Monarchy by Cyrus.
The Prophets Isay and Jeremiah, foretell the ruin of this Babel, and delivering of Gods People from her Tyranny, whom they exhort upon her fall to return into their own land: Hence is this form taken, and this whole Chapter is compiled of little else, but the phrases of the Prophets touching Babel and Tyre as the diligent reader by comparing the concording places may easily perceive: