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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.
That these temporal things are the gift of God, the fourth Petition of the Lords Prayer, shows sufficiently. And that collections of these, and giving ⟨p. 199⟩them to the poor, is called a ministering to the Saints. See 2 Cor. 8.4. cap. 9.1. and styled grace, (cap. 8.19.) and what other sense can there be of that (cap. 9.8.) God is able to make all grace abound, but of temporal blessings, as the next words show, to multiply your seed sown, and minister bread for your food, (V. 10.) and they may be called the manifold grace or gift of God, by the divers sorts of them to be administered, food, clothing, relieving of the sick, &c. according as they are distinctly remembered at the last day, (Matth. 25.) And are not all bountiful charitable persons, the Lords Stewards, in dispensing these things to those of his household of Faith; so that upon these considerations, the place appears to ⟨p. 200⟩to be far off from any application of it to Preaching. Indeed the next verse may be so meant. If any man speak, let him speak as the Oracles of God, &c. but yet to be understood with this limitation, viz. of a man ordained and constituted (as we have said) for that end.
That these temporal things are the gift of God, the fourth Petition of the Lords Prayer, shewes sufficiently. And that collections of these, and giving ⟨p. 199⟩them to the poor, is called a ministring to the Saints. See 2 Cor. 8.4. cap. 9.1. and stiled grace, (cap. 8.19.) and what other sense can there be of that (cap. 9.8.) God is able to make all grace abound, but of temporall blessings, as the next words shew, to multiply your seed sowen, and minister bread for your food, (V. 10.) and they may be called the manifold grace or gift of God, by the divers sorts of them to be administred, food, clothing, relieving of the sick, &c. according as they are distinctly remembred at the last day, (