A95762:405
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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(which title I wish he had spared) from the doctrine of the Church of England, which joins the universality of redemption with the special intention of God, effectually to save the elect. This for Doctor Waltons Certificate. Now for Mr. Goninge's, which seems (by the Preface of it) to have bin given you after your publishing the Lord Primates change of judgment; somewhat of that may be safely granted; viz. The sincerity of Gods universal call of all sinners to whom the Gospel was preached, which is the sum of what he affirms to have heard, ⟨p. 367⟩from him in the public, but for that which he saith he received from him in private, viz. That God, together with his word preached, did give internal grace to all that are called by it, that they may repent if they will, yea they all can will, &c. If the Primates words were not mistaken by him, (as they might the more possibly by the distance between the hearing, and the date of his certificate to you) I suppose this was the sense of them, viz. That by internal grace he did not understand more, then that there are some good motions offered unto the hearts of sinners, which if they did not extinguish and resist, and thereby draw upon themselves a further guilt, they should be seconded with more effectual grace; and, that ⟨p. 368⟩upon their disobedience, God doth justly leave them to themselves, and doth not superadd that special grace, whereby their Wills are changed, and their conversion wrought. As for posse non resistere, it is consistent with actual resistance, which is taken away by special grace, and thus far I conceive he might hold with Bishop Overall; so much for Mr. Goninge. For Mr. Thornedick's Testimony, I see not wherein it differeth from the Lord Primates Letter published, and needs no further answer. So that upon the whole I do not find, even by these Certificates, so sure a ground, for your assertion of my Lord Primates change of judgement, and his being of late a serious convert, &c. as you have supposed; The first ⟨p. 369⟩pretend but little, the last less, and the middle not much; thus interpreted:
(which title I wish he had spared) from the doctrine of the Church of England, which joynes the universality of redemption with the speciall intention of God, effectually to save the elect. This for Doctor Waltons Certificate. Now for Mr. Goninges, which seems (by the Preface of it) to have bin given you after your publishing the Lord Primates change of judgment; somewhat of that may be safely granted; viz. The sincerity of Gods universal call of all sinners to whom the Gospel was preached, which is the summe of what he affirmes to have heard,