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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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And that it may be so, ye see it in Judas, who by our Saviours Commission to him through preaching, and baptizing, was the instrument accordingly of the transferring of it, (i. e. remission of sins, &c.) unto others, without partaking of it himself: our Saviour calls him a Devil, and a son of perdition, but yet in this Office, the Devils were subject to him; and he the means of dispossessing of others; like Noah's Carpenters, who were instruments to save others, but were drowned themselves. 'Tis probable, Saint Paul, or some of the Apostles ordained Hymenaeus, and Phyletus, Phygellus, Hermogenes, and Diotrephas, ⟨p. 247⟩but as in neither of them doth there appear any sanctified grace of the spirit, so we do not read it caused any suspension of the virtue of their ministerial acts to the receivers, or that the Apostles gave order for any reiteration of them; personal faults, not voiding Acts of Office; and so, why should the like be a prejudice to it in these succeeding Ages? Receiving supposeth a gift, but 'tis as the giving of a sum to a Steward by his Lord, not to his own private use, but for the dispensing of it to the family.
And that it may be so, ye see it in Judas, who by our Saviours Commission to him through preaching, and baptizing, was the instrument accordingly of the transferring of it, (i. e. remission of sins, &c.) unto others, without partaking of it himself: our Saviour calls him a Devill, and a son of perdition, but yet in this Office, the Devils were subject to him; and he the means of dispossessing of others; like Noahs Carpenters, who were instruments to save others, but were drowned themselves. 'Tis probable, Saint Paul, or some of the Apostles ordained Hymenaeus, and Phyletus, Phygellus, Hermogenes, and Diotrephas, ⟨p. 247⟩but as in neither of them doth there appear any sanctified grace of the spirit, so we do not read it caused any suspension of the vertue of their ministerial acts to the receivers, or that the Apostles gave order for any reiteration of them; personal faults, not voyding Acts of Office; and so, why should the like be a prejudice to it in these succeeding Ages? Receiving supposeth a gift, but 'tis as the giving of a summe to a Steward by his Lord, not to his own private use, but for the dispensing of it to the family.