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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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2. In our Saviour Christs time, there was as bad a succession as ever; in the Priests, Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees, &c. yet as he permitted their administering of some rites for himself; whether of circumcision, or the offering made for him in the Temple, at the purification, after the custom of the Law, in his infancy, so at his manifestation about 30 years after, he sends those that were healed by him to the Priests, to offer what Moses commanded; ye see he did not determine ⟨p. 230⟩against the office for the personal defilements of their Predecessors, or themselves.
2. In our Saviour Christs time, there was as bad a succession as ever; in the Priests, Pharises, Scribes, Sadduces, &c. yet as he permitted their administring of some rites for himselfe; whether of circumcision, or the offering made for him in the Temple, at the purification, after the custome of the Law, in his infancy, so at his manifestation about 30 yeares after, he sends those that were healed by him to the Priests, to offer what Moses commanded; ye see he did not determine ⟨p. 230⟩against the office for the personal defilements of their Predecessors, or themselves.
3. Nay, under the Gospel, about four hundred years after our Saviour Christ, was not the world so over-run with Arians, that it groaned under it? (as St. Jerome saith,) when they had the commands of the Pulpits, ordaining of Preachers, children were baptized by them, men put to receive the communion of them, as Hilary and Basil say, the Orthodox were hatched under the wings of the Arian Priests; yet upon a reformation, and the renouncing of that heresy, we read not of any rejecting of the succeeding Ministers, because they were derived through such hands, which I conceive to have been as bad as the Bishop of Rome, and ⟨p. 231⟩