A95762:112
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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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⟩Gods people are warned to do, even by the consideration of the Holy vessels of the Lord which they carried with them out of Babylon. The reason which confirms this charge of going out of Babylon, is drawn from the danger of participation in her sins, and in her Plagues, that is,2 blows, stripes, punishments, which are not only those mentioned in the 8 Verse, Death, Mourning, Famine, Fire, but as in the 14. Chapter (where the same Proclamation is made of her fall which is here) the drinking of the hot and unalaid wine of Gods vengeance, and to be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels, and the Lamb, and the smoke of their torments shall ascend for ever and ever. We have thus discussed the meaning of this Scripture, which being all laid together is this, Saint John hears our ⟨p. 64⟩Lord Jesus Christ admonishing from Heaven his faithful people to come out of the obedience of Romish, Popish Babylon, least partaking with her in her sins, they receive also of her stripes and punishments, both Temporal and Eternal.
It is true that by Cyrus his Edict Gods people were permitted to return into their own Countrey to the place where the Lords worship was then fixed; Now there is no such place specially appointed, as our Lord Iesus Christ shews 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,