A64661:140
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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For Episcopacy, he was not wanting with Saint Paul to magnify his own office, by two several Tractates he hath published, (none being more able to defend the ancient right of it) for which he was by Letters importuned, by some of the most eminent persons of his own profession, yet how humbly without any partiality to himself, and the eminent degree he had obtained in it, did he ⟨p. 136⟩declare his judgement, is evident by the above-said Tractates, and the Letter before mentioned, And his prudence in the present accommodation of things in that Treatise of his, viz. The reduction of it to the form of Synodical Government, for the prevention of that disturbance, which did afterwards arise about it, is as apparent also; if others concerned in these transactions had been of that moderation, humility, and meekness, the wound given, might have been healed before it grew incurable.
For Episcopacy, he was not wanting with Saint Paul to magnifie his own office, by two several Tractates he hath published, (none being more able to defend the ancient right of it) for which he was by Letters importuned, by some of the most eminent persons of his own profession, yet how humbly without any partiality to himself, and the eminent degree he had obtained in it, did he ⟨p. 136⟩declare his judgement, is evident by the above-said Tractates, and the Letter before mentioned, And his prudence in the present accommodation of things in that Treatise of his, viz. The reduction of it to the form of Synodical Government, for the prevention of that disturbance, which did afterwards arise about it, is as apparent also; if others concerned in these transactions had been of that moderation, humility, and meeknesse, the wound given, might have been healed before it grew incurable.
That the Annual Commemorations of the Articles of the faith, such as the Nativity, Passion, Resurrection, of our Saviour, &c. were fit to be observed (which Saint Augustine saith, in his time were in use through the whole Catholic Church of Christ) and is now in some Reformed Churches, as a means to keep them in the memory of the vulgar, (according to the pattern of Gods injunction to the Israelites in the Old Testament, for the