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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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Thus you see the Description of Babylon doth no less agree to the present, then the old Heathen Rome, the great City, her command over the Kings of the Earth; Her enchanting Cup, Her wantonness and delicacy, Her arrogancy and pride: Lastly, that bloody and blood thirsty Cruelty ⟨p. 61⟩against the worshippers of Christ, exercised by her, and (which I desire you to observe) by her alone; for in no other part of the Christian world you shall find it.
Thus you see the Description of Babylon doth no lesse agree to the present, then the old Heathen Rome, the great City, her command over the Kings of the Earth; Her inchanting Cup, Her wantonness and delicacy, Her arrogancy and pride: Lastly, that bloudy and bloud thirsty Cruelty ⟨p. 61⟩against the worshippers of Christ, exercised by her, and (which I desire you to observe) by her alone; for in no other part of the Christian world you shall find it.
To conclude then, since neither Heathen Rome only, as she was heathen (as Bellarmine would have it) can be Babylon, nor partly Heathen, and partly Antichristian, as revolted from the Pope, with a gap of a thousand years between (as Viegas divineth) And the Character that the Holy Ghost sets upon Babylon doth no less, but rather more agree to the present Pontifical Rome, then to the old Imperial. It is the falsely termed Christian, indeed the Antichristian Rome, which is the Babylon, out of which Gods People are called.
To conclude then, since neither Heathen Rome onely, as she was heathen (as Bellarmine would have it) can be Babylon, nor partly Heathen, and partly Antichristan, as revolted from the Pope, with a gap of a thousand years between (as Viegas divineth) And the Character that the Holy Ghost sets upon Babylon doth no lesse, but rather more agree to the present Pontifical Rome, then to the old Imperial. It is the falsely termed Christian, indeed the Antichristian Rome, which is the Babylon, out of which Gods People are called.