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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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First, that the Use of a set Form of Prayer, is not a setting up of any new doctrine, as the Athenians judged of Saint Paul, appears in that 'tis the practise of the Belgic Churches, for which ye have the determination of the Divines of Leiden, Polyander, Rivetus, Walaeus, Thysius; in their(a) Synopsis Theologiae: And the resolution of Mr. Aims our countryman (who lived and died a Professor of Divinity among them) in his cases of conscience, who saith, 'tis (b)lawful from the approved practice of the ⟨p. 288⟩Saints in the Psalms, and other Forms of blessing in the Scripture; nay profitable and necessary for some, though it be read out of a book.
First, that the Ʋse of a set Form of Prayer, is not a setting up of any new doctrine, as the Athenians judged of Saint Paul, appeares in that 'tis the practise of the Belgick Churches, for which ye have the determination of the Divines of Leyden, Polyander, Rivetus, Walaeus, Thysius; in their(a) Synopsis Theologiae: And the resolution of Mr. Aimes our countryman (who lived and died a Professor of Divinity among them) in his cases of conscience, who saith, 'tis (b)lawfull from the approved practice of the ⟨p. 288⟩Saints in the Psalmes, and other Formes of blessing in the Scripture; nay profitable and necessary for some, though it be read out of a book.
- (a)Disput. 36. de cultu invocat. Sect. 33. non tantum licitas sed & valde utiler esse, contendimus, &c. & in magnis conventibus atientio auditorum per usitatas formulas, non parum juvatur.
- (b)Licitum hoc esse manifestum est, ex approbata sanctorum praxi, quam in praescriptis Psalmis, & benedicendi formulis, scriptura nobis commendat. Ʋ tile etiam & necessarium est quibusdam istiusmodi formam sequi, quamvis ex libelloisit denotanda. l. 4. cap. 17. de oratione mentali & vocally.