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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.
But that which befell the Jews in the looking for the Kingdom of Christ when it was already among them, happeneth to Viegas and those of his side, They fondly look for Antichrist the last head of the beast, whereupon the Babylonian Harlot sitteth above a thousand years after all the former, and consider not that this beast is one Principality under divers forms of Government, whereof five being fallen in Saint Johns time, one then in being, and the other to endure, a short space. To make this short space a thousand years, or else to put in ⟨p. 53⟩so many years of the Popes government over Rome before Antichrist come, who shall forsooth revolt from his Obedience: It seems rather the dream of a waking man then to hold any likelihood of Truth, Howsoever it resteth even by Vi•gas consent (notwithstanding his cunning combination of two states of Rome, that under Paganism, and that under Antichrist, with a thousand years between) that Rome must have continued Christian for sundry Ages before her Desolation, and for ought doth yet appear the present Monarchy which she claims to exercise over the Christian World, is the Mystical Babylon out of which Gods People are called.
But that which befell the Iewes in the looking for the Kingdome of Christ when it was already among them, happeneth to Viegas and those of his side, They fondly look for Antichrist the last head of the beast, whereupon the Babylonian Harlot sitteth above a thousand yeares after all the former, and consider not that this beast is one Principality under divers forms of Government, whereof five being fallen in Saint Iohns time, one then in being, and the other to endure, a short space. To make this short space a thousand years, or else to put in ⟨p. 53⟩so many years of the Popes government over Rome before Antichrist come, who shall forsooth revolt from his Obedience: It seemes rather the dream of a waking man then to hold any likelyhood of Truth, Howsoever it resteth even by Vi•gas consent (notwithstanding his cunning combination of two states of Rome, that under Paganisme, and that under Antichrist, with a thousand years between) that Rome must have continued Christian for sundery Ages before her Desolation, and for ought doth yet appear the present Monarchy which she claims to exercise over the Christian World, is the Mystical Babylon out of which Gods People are called.