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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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It followeth after in process of our Lords speech; upbraiding her that she glorifies her self and lives in ⟨p. 57⟩wantonness and pride, and saith, I sit as a Queen and shall not be a widow, nor •re any sorrow, &c. It would require a long time to recite the Proverbs and by words only, which have been cast up and down, concerning the wantonness and uncleanness of Rome, since she came to be the seat of the Popes Court, and how she hath drawn to her self, and spent the wealth of all Nations; in this matter I will spare rather your Ears and this place, then my own pains; for the Boast of sitting as a Queen, consider her maxims; viz. The Church of Rome is the Mistress and Teacher of all Churches, without spot or wrinkle, and it is necessary to salvation to every humane Creature to be under the Bishop of Rome, that no man may judge him nor say unto him Domine cut itafacias. If any man have a desire ⟨p. 58⟩to see the vaunts of Rome. in this kind let him be pleased, to view the image of the Man of •in, exalting himself in the Temple of God, as it is drawn by Master Fox in the end of the former Tome of his Acts and Monuments Ecclesiastical, out of the Popes own Decrees and Decretals; And if any make scruple to look on that Book,1 let him see Bellarmine undertaking that the Pope intending to teach the whole 2Church can in no case err in things appertaining to Faith; 3no, nor yet the particular Church of Rome, that it is probable and pious to believe the Pope cannot become an Heretic even as a particular Person; that he is the judge of Controversies in the Church, and his judgement certain and infallible: Add to these, that the same Bellarmine makes Temporal Felicity one of the notes of the4 Church.
It followeth after in process of our Lords speech; upbraiding her that she glorifies her selfe and lives in