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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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Secondly, if no successive ordained Ministry, why doth Saint Paul spend so much time in exhorting to a future provision for them. (1 Cor. 9. Gal. 6.6. 1 Tim. 5.17.) can we think it was only for himself, and such then living, who expected Martyrdom weekly; why such large directions for the qualification of such, as were to be ordained by his Successors, in his Epistles to Timothy, and Titus, surely it was written for our instruction now.
Secondly, if no successive ordainedMinistery, why doth Saint Paul spend so much time in exhorting to a future provision for them. (1 Cor. 9. Gal. 6.6. 1 Tim. 5.17.) can we think it was only for himself, and such then living, who expected Martyrdome weekly; why such large directions for the qualification of such, as were to be ordained by his Successors, in his Epistles to Timothy, and Titus, surely it was written for our instruction now.
Thirdly, consider what conclusion must be the issue of the contrary, our Saviour pitied the people, when they were like Sheep without a Shepherd; That which is every mans work, is no bodies: As in reason, the office of the Ministry must be weakly and negligently done, when no ⟨p. 196⟩persons are appointed to make it their study and labour, so when gaps are thus opened for any person, may not Jesuits and such like Agents creep in under other forms, and privily bring in damnable heresies, to the seducing of the hearers; I am loth to imagine that this should be at the bottom of this assertion, that so with the more specious pretext, they might take away the maintenance, as indeed one must follow the other; for if there be no need of a settled ordained Ministry, what use of a settled means allotted for it.