A95762:236
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.
Indeed the word [Greek or Hebrew] is often taken for internal abilities, and 'tis not improbable, but at the solemn meeting of the Church of God, both Ministry and people, in Fasting and Prayer, (which was the injunction of our Church, & should have been the practice) to invocate God for the assisting grace of his spirit, to be given to the person ordained, might be prevalent for that end; and that the receiving accordingly of ordination, might be so far operative, as to be a confirmation of the party the more, against errors and heresies, in the execution of it; ⟨p. 209⟩The falling into which may possibly be the judgement of God upon some, who of late days have run without it, which agrees with the observation Chemnitius makes of Origen, who neglected Orders, and fell into the like; and at last made himself incapable of them. But I say again, that [Greek or Hebrew] in the forenamed place, is most safely to be understood of the gift of authority to be exercised and transferred unto others by laying on of hands.
Indeed the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is often taken for internall abilities, and 'tis not improbable, but at the solemn meeting of the Church of God, both Ministery and people, in Fasting and Prayer, (which was the injunction of our Church, & should have been the practice) to invocate God for the assisting grace of his spirit, to be given to the person ordained, might be prevalent for that end; and that the receiving accordingly of ordination, might be so far operative, as to be a confirmation of the party the more, against errors and he•esies, in the execution of it; ⟨p. 209⟩The falling into which may possibly be the judgement of God upon some, who of late dayes have run without it, which agrees with the observation Chemnitius makes of Origen, who neglected Orders, and fell into the like; and at last made himselfe incapable of them. But I say again, that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the forenamed place, is most safely to be understood of the gift of authority to be exercised and transferred unto others by laying on of hands.