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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Viegus saith,(a) We conceive, wheresoever Babylon is mentioned in the Revelation, it signifies Rome, and all things in the 17. and 18. Revel. very fitly appliable to it.
Viegus saith,(a) We conceive, wheresover Babylon is mentioned in the Revelation, it signifies Rome, and all things in the 17. and 18. Revel. very fitly appliable to it.
- (a)Existimamus nomine Babylonis Romanam urbem significari in hoc Apocalypsis opere, ubi toties Babylon nominatur, &c. omnia quae his capitibus memorantur, in Romanam urbem aptissimè quadrant,
According to that of(b) Bellarmine (formerly quoted) and ⟨p. 167⟩Lessius (c)who saith, John calls Rome Babylon, as being the figure of Rome, and by his words he elearly showeth it to be Rome, All which may well give a check to the Novelty of some among our selves, who without the ballast of sound or solid judgement, have been carried about with the winds; of other imaginations, which yet I could easily believe, some Popish Agents (upon second thoughts) have had their hands in, to get it driven off the further from their shore; Though how far not-withstanding our aforesaid Writers, and these are from an agreement, in the above-said, hath been made apparent in the two former Treatises; viz. Those of ⟨p. 168⟩