A64661:118
The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of…
The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard.
London: printed for John Crook, 1658
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Some Animadvertisements upon the aforesaid Letter, in prevention of any misinterpretations of it.
1. Whereas in the former part of it, he saith, he hath ever declared his opinion to be, &c. I can witness it from the time I have had the happiness to be known to him, it being not (as some possibly might suggest) a change of judgement upon the occurrences of latter years.
1. WHereas in the former part of it, he saith, he hath ever declared his opinion to be, &c. I can witnesse it from the time I have had the happinesse to be known to him, it being not (as some possibly might suggest) a change of judgement upon the occurrences of latter years.
2. For that superiority only in degree; which, he saith, a Bishop hath above a Presbyter, it is not to be understood as an arbitrary matter at the pleasure of men, but that he held it to be of Apostolical institution, and no more a diminution of the preeminence and authority of Episcopacy, than the denomination ⟨p. 115⟩of lights given in common by Moses, to all of them in the firmament (Genes. 1.) detracts from the Sun & Moon, whom he calls the greater, and were assigned of God to have the rule of the rest; though the difference between them be only gradual, yet there is a derivative subordination, as the preeminence of the first-born, was but gradual, they were all brethren, but to him was given of God the excellency, or supremacy of Dignity and power, to him they must bow, or be subject, and he must have the rule over them: And that this gradus is both derived from the pattern prescribed by God in the Old Testament (where that distinction is found in the Title of the Chief Priest, who had the rule of the rest, called by the LXX [Greek or Hebrew]) and from the imitation thereof brought in by the Apostles, and confirmed by Christ in the time of the New; The Primate hath so fully confirmed in that learned Tractate of his, of the Original of Bishops, which he hath deduced