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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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And that we may not spend more time in proving that the present Papal Rome reigneth over the Kings of the Earth, the Merchants of Babylon are now resolved That all the Kingdoms of the Earth are the Popes, insomuch that the best Title that any Prince can have to his Crown is, Dei & Apostolicae sedis gratia, by the grace of God, and Apostolic See.1 And Cardinal Bellarmine recognizing his works retracts that which might seem to Cross2 this title about the Popes dividing3 the new world to the Portugals and Spaniards: And tempers that which he had said that Christ himself ⟨p. 60⟩whose Vicar the Pope is, had no temporal Kingdom, and lastly, asserts more roundly, contrary to his former opinion▪ viz. That the Church may deprive infidels of their Dominion which they have over the Faithful, yea, albeit they do not endeavour to turn away the Faithful from the Faith: Howsoever she doth not always so, because she wanteth strength, or doth not judge it expedient, but questionless, if those same Princes do go about to turn away their people from the faith, they may and ought to be deprived of their Dominions: I shall not need to call to remembrance here what Faith or infidelity is at this day in the Roman Language when Paul the Fifth, teacheth the Catholics that they cannot take the Oath of Fidelity (salva fide Catholica) with safety of the Catholic Faith; which ⟨p. 61⟩shows, that if the Pope may deprive infidels of their Dominions, how much more such as are Christians, being thereby more under the verge of his Authority, concerning the Popes ruling over the Kings of the Earth, this may suffice.
And that we may not spend more time in proving that the present Papal Rome reigneth over the Kings of the Earth, the Merchants of Babylon are now resolved That all the Kingdomes of the Earth are the Popes, insomuch that the best Title that any Prince can have to his Crown is, Dei & Apostolicae sedis gratia, by the grace of God, and Apostolick See.