A95762:94
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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These Prophecies were accordingly accomplished, as you may see in Daniel, 1for she is related in a great Feast made by Belshazzar to a thousand of his Lords (wherein he would needs bring forth the Vessels of Gods House for his Nobles and Concubines to quaff in.) God wrote his Doom with a hand upon the wall of his Banqueting house, and the same night the Medes and Persians under Darius and Cyrus, entered the City, slew the King, and proclaimed liberty to Gods People, 2to return into their Country and reedify the House of God as you may see, and thus came Babel the ⟨p. 46⟩Glory of Kingdoms (as it is called Isaiah 13.19.) to Confusion: But this is the literal Babel, whereunto there is a reference in this Text, What now is the Mystical Babylon which here Gods People are bidden to leave. Questionless some City answering to this, in State, in Glory, in Oppression of the People of God, neither must we take it for the buildings only and houses, but for the State also and Policy; as besides the Evidence of the Type of old Babel, so taken by the Prophets, and the common use of all Authors in like Case doth lead us.
These Prophecies were accordingly accomplished, as you may see in Daniel, 1for she is related in a great Feast made by Belshazzar to a thousand of his Lords (wherein he would needs bring forth the Vessels of Gods House for his Nobles and Concubines to quaff in.) God wrote his Doom with a hand upon the wall of his Banquetting house, and the same night the Medes and Persians under Darius and Cyrus, entered the Citie, slew the King, and proclaimed libertie to Gods People, 2to return into their Countrey and reedifie the House of God as you may see, and thus came Babel the ⟨p. 46⟩Glory of Kingdomes (as it is called Esay 13.19.) to Confusion: But this is the literal Babel, whereunto there is a reference in this Text, What now is the Mystical Babylon which here Gods People are bidden to leave. Questionlesse some City answering to this, in State, in Glorie, in Oppression of the People of God, neither must we take it for the buildings onely and houses, but for the State also and Policy; as besides the Evidence of the Type of old Babel, so taken by the Prophets, and the common use of all Authours in like Case doth lead us.