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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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One point more rests in the speech of the last Angel concerning Babylon in this Chapter, Verse the last, That in her was found the blood of the Prophets, and Saints & of all that were slain upon the Earth: And in the former Chapter,1 John saw the woman drunken with the blood of Saints and Martyrs of Jesus: That Heathen Rome was such there is no doubt: And although Bellarmine would draw the Text another way to Jerusalem) that this is the2 great City, where the bodies of two witnesses shall lie unburied, where also the Lord was Crucified, since in the Roman Empire, and by a Roman Deputy, and to a Roman Death, our Lord was put, But this doth no less stick by Christian Rome unto this day, to be drunken with the blood of Saints and Martyrs of Jesus: Let Histories be turned, and ⟨p. 60⟩an exact account taken, how many thousands (otherwise good Christians) have been slain and massacred merely for his pleasure sake, And because they would not submit to her Obedience; I think it will very evidently appear that they are incomparably more then all those that suffered Martyrdom for the Christian Religion under Heathen Romes persecution. To omit those whom as an Imperious Harlot she hath caused to be killed for calling her name in question.
One point more rests in the speech of the last Angel concerning Babylon in this Chapter, Verse the last, That in her was found the bloud of the Prophets, and Saints & of all that were slain upon the Earth: And in the former Chapter,1 Iohn saw the woman drunken with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs of Iesus: That Heathen Rome was such there is no doubt: And although Bellarmine would draw the Text another way to Ierusalem) that this is the2 great City, where the bodies of two witnesses shall lie unburied, where also the Lord was Crucified, since in the Romane Empire, and by a Romane Deputy, and to a Romane Death, our Lord was put, But this doth no less stick by Christian Rome unto this day, to be drunken with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs of Iesus: Let Histories be turned, and ⟨p. 60⟩