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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 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 spiritually called Sodom and Egypt: 1now 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 seem to imply both; And the rather because this great City is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt: 1now such was the departure of Lott out of Sodome and Israel out of Egypt.
It is true that by Cyrus his Edict Gods people were permitted to return into their own Country to the place where the Lords worship was then fixed; Now there is no such place specially appointed, as our Lord Jesus Christ shows in his speech with the woman of Samaria: 1But certainly if any of Gods people cannot by separation in judgement and affection so live, as not to be partakers of the sins of Babylon, they are to go out bodily also and in no wise to touch any unclean thing, ⟨p. 63⟩