A95762:319
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.
Then for the judgement and practice accordingly of the Reformed Church of France, Ludovicus Capellus gives us a sufficient account of (who is Professor of Divinity in the University of Summer) in one of his Theses lately published, de Liturgiae formulis conceptis, or a set form of a Liturgy, where after he hath answered all the pretended arguments against it, which it seems he had gleaned up out of some of our English Writers of late, he concludes(a) that 'tis very necessary both for the most learned Pastors and congregations, ⟨p. 289⟩as unlearned; and the edification of both, being used throughout the Christian world in all ages, at least for these 1300 years, and is still at this day in all places, excepting only (as he saith) some of late with us in England, whose censure of them is so severe, that it would be offensive in me to repeat it.
Then for the judgement and practice accordingly of the Reformed Church of France, Ludovicus Capellus gives us a sufficient account of (who is Professor of Divinity in the University of Somer) in one of his Theses lately published, de Liturgiae formulis conceptis, or a set form of a Liturgie, where after hee hath answered all the pretended arguments against it, which it seemes he had gleaned up out of some of our English Writers of late, he concludes(a) that 'tis very necessary both for the most learned Pastors and congregations, ⟨p. 289⟩as unlearned; and the edification of both, being used throughout the Christian world in all ages, at least for these 1300 years, and is still at this day in all places, excepting only (as he saith) some of late with us in England, whose censure of them is so severe, that it would be offensive in me to repeat it.
- (a)Ubi sunt e•uditi Pastores S. Liturgiae publica formula est apprimè utilis & necessaria, ad communem Ecclesiae aedificationem, &c. earum usus jure damnari •on potest nec debet, cum semper & ubique, in universa Ecclesia Christiana, toto terrarum orb, jam à plusquam 1300 annis perpetuo obtinuerit, etiamque hodie ubique obtineat, nisi apud nov tios, &c. Donec tandem nuperimè exorti sunt in Anglia, &c. de Liturg. concept. form. pas 3.