A95762:278
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.
Mr. Hookers gloss (in his Eccles. Polit.) is accordingly; Receive the Holy Ghost, i. e. Accipite potestatem spiritualem, receive ghostly, or spiritual Authority, in order to the souls of men now to be committed to your charge; And if you mark the context, their Commission is here from the blessed Trinity; the Father, and Son, in the verse before. As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. And in this verse, a reception of Authority from the third person, the Father sends, Matth. 9.38. Chap. 10.20. the Son, Ephes. 4. here the Holy Ghost, as Acts 20.
Mr. Hookers glosse (in his Eccles. Polit.) is accordingly; Receive the Holy Ghost, i. e. Accipite potestatem spiritualem, receive ghostly, or spiritual Authority, in order to the soules of men now to be committed to your charge; And if you mark the context, their Commission is here from the blessed Trinity; the Father, and Sonne, in the verse before. As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. And in this verse, a reception of Authority from the third person, the Father sends, Matth. 9.38. Chap. 10.20. the Sonne, Ephes. 4. here the Holy Ghost, as Acts 20.
And so more fully thus. Receive the Holy Ghost, i. e. receive Authority from the Father, Son, ⟨p. 241⟩and Holy Ghost, for the efficacious preaching of the Word, and Administration of Sacraments, by and through which, the graces of the holy spirit in repentance, faith, forgiveness of sins, and the like; are ordinarily wrought and confirmed to the hearers, and partakers of them: yet not excluding it from being a Prayer also, viz. that the person thus authorized, might receive such a spiritual assistance in it.