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The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland. Of Babylon…
The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland. 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. / Published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard D.D. and preacher to the Honourable Society of Gray's-Inn, London. Unto which is added a character of Bishop Bedel, and an answer to Mr. Pierces fifth letter concerning the late primate.The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland. 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 ministery. Of the old form of words in ordination. Of a set form of prayer. / Published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard D.D. and preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inne, London. 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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and the Church for many Ages so kept it, Not to pray with understanding in a known tongue not to take the ten Commandments as God pronounced and wrote them twice with his own finger, but as she hath razed and deformed them, Not to say Amen to the Lords Prayer in the company with other Christians, because she would not allow it; were it not for this cup of Error, could she have ever persuaded that she can dissolve the bonds of fealty betwixt Subject and Prince, depose and denounce Kings; and warrant their Subjects to kill them, and had she not first with this cup of Sorcery transformed men into beasts, could she have found any that would have adventured to execute these her ungodly and wicked designs?
and the Church for many Ages so kept it, Not to pray with understanding in a known tongue not to take the ten Commandements as God pronounced and wrote them twice with his owne finger, but as she hath rased and deformed them, Not to say Amen to the Lords Prayer in the company with other Christians, because she would not allow it; were it not for this cup of Errour, could she have ever perswaded that she can dissolve the bonds of fealty betwixt Subject and Prince, depose and denounce Kings; and warrant their Subjects to kill them, and had she not first with this cup of Sorcery transformed men into beasts, could she have found any that would have adventured to execute these her ungodly and wicked designs?
Here by the way let me tell you of an old Babylonian trick, by which especially, the Western Babylon hath conveyed this cup of Error into the hands of all Nations. We read in the first of Daniel, that Nebuchadnezzar commanded the Master of his Eunuchs, That he should bring certain of the Kings seed, and of the Princes Children in whom was no blemish, and of able wits, to teach them the Learning and Tongue of the Chaldeans; Thus were Daniel and his fellows used, and had other name• and education given them that they might forget their own, (though Gods special Grace in them went beyond the policy of Babylon.) Such and worse hath been and is the practice of new Babylon in drawing younger Brothers of great houses and good wits to Rome and Romish Colleges and ⟨image 42⟩