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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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I shall only add the judgement of that meek and judicious man, Mr. Hooker, see his Treatise of Justification, Sect. 10. God hath spoken by his Angel from heaven to his people concerning Babylon, (by Babylon we understand the Church of Rome) Go out of her my people, that ye be not partaker of her plagues, he expounds the going out of her to ⟨p. 137⟩be specially meant, out of Popish superstitions and heresies, calling the maintainers of them Popish Heretics, and by plagues, not only temporal but eternal. Sect. 20. compares the Pope to Jeroboam, Rome to Samaria, that played the Harlot, &c. Sect. 27. speaking of the Bishop of Rome, and the Church of Rome, adds this. As Frenzy, though it take away the use of reason, doth notwithstanding prove them reasonable creatures which have it, because none can be frantic but they, so Antichristianity being the bane and plain overthrow of Christianity, may nevertheless argue the Church wherein Antichrist sitteth to be christian. Sect. 57. God did in all ages keep his elect from worshipping the Beast, and from receiving his mark in their foreheads; ⟨p. 138⟩he hath and will preserve them from receiving any deadly wound at the hands of the man of sin, whose deceit hath prevailed over none unto death, but only such as never loved the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessal. 2 Sect. 35. speaking of Christs mercy to the worst of men upon their repentance, saith thus; if a Pope, stripped of usurped power, Antichrist converted, penitent, and lying prostrate at the foot of Christ, &c. shall I think Christ will spurn at him. In his Sermon on Saint Jude, Sect. 14. He calls the Pope the man of sin, and son of perdition, who hath fawned upon the Kings and Princes of the earth, and by spiritual cozenage proclaiming sale of Pardons, &c. hath taken the children of the Noblest families, and made them his Cardinals, ⟨p. 139⟩built Seminaries; and hereby as at this day, the man of sin wars against us, &c. with the cup of whose deadly abominations, this Jeroboam of whom we speak, hath made the earth so drunk, that it hath reeled under us, &c. Now of whom the Prophet speaketh this; whether of the Bishop of Rome, or some other man, needs no further resolution, and so much for Mr. Hooker.