A95762:213
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.
Consider what ye do in a total renouncing of an ordained Ministry, as to Baptism and believing, through whom as instrumentals, ye did partake of them; If the foundation fall, how can the building stand: As ye see here Saint Paul makes an ordained Ministry, a fundamental principle of Christian Religion. So much for the sense of the Text, what is meant by laying on of hands.
Consider what ye do in a totall renouncing of an ordained Ministery, as to Baptisme and believing, through whom as instrumentals, ye did partake of them; If the foundation fall, how can the building stand: As ye see here Saint Paul makes an ordained Ministery, a fundamental principle of Christian Religion. So much for the sence of the Text, what is meant by laying on of hands.
Now if Ordination be a fundamental principle, hence then these 2 things may be inferred.
1. A necessity of continuing an ordained Ministry in the Church, ⟨p. 189⟩and the neglect of it to be the undermining of the foundation of it.
1. A necessity of continuing an ordained Ministery in the Church, ⟨p. 189⟩and the neglect of it to be the underming of the foundation of it.