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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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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.
And how they are to go out of her, it rests to be considered: Bellarmine ⟨p. 62⟩cites Saint Augustine to prove that it is Corde non Corpore, not in place but affection; But the Temple of Gods people departing from Babel would seem to imply both; And the rather because this great City is spiritually1 called Sodom and Egypt: now such was the departure of Lott out of Sodom and Israel out of Egypt.
And how they are to go out of her, it rests to be considered: Bellarmine ⟨p. 62⟩cites Saint Augustine to prove that it is Corde non Corpore, not in place but affection; But the Temple of Gods people departing from Babel would seemto imply both; And the rather because this great City is spiritually1