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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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But because it may be some body else will, that we may speak not only to the men, but to the matter. Observe that the ruin of Babylon here spoken of, is so described as to be sudden in one day, in one hour: her desolation is not only without recovery, but even Consolation, 1like to the throwing of a ⟨p. 50⟩stone into the Sea, 2so as neither Music, nor Minstrel, nor the sound of a Qu•rn, or any Crafts-man, nor the voice of a Bridegroom, or a Bride, nor light of a Candle shall be found in her any more, This cannot agree with the Conversion, or the Subversion of heathen Rome, for all these things are yet left now to be found there; and if men will not wilfully shut their eyes, they must (me thinks) needs see that this Desolation did not then come upon Rome, nor is yet come upon her, And therefore it is not Heathen Rome, but after the embracing of Christian Religion, which is to fall, and consequently that out of which Christs People are called;
But because it may be some body else will, that we may speak not only to the men, but to the matter. Observe that the ruine of Babylon here spoken of, is so described as to be sudden in one day, in one houre: her desolation is not only without recoverie, but even Consolation, 1like to the throwing of a ⟨p. 50⟩stone into the Sea, 2so as neither Musick, nor Minstrel, nor the sound of a Qu•rn, or any Crafts-man, nor the voyce of a Bridegroome, or a Bride, nor light of a Candel shall be found in her any more, This cannot agree with the Conversion, or the Subversion of heathen Rome, for all these things are yet left now to be found there; and if men will not wilfully shut their eyes, they must (me thinkes) needs see that this Desolation did not then come upon Rome, nor is yet come upon her, And therefore it is not Heathen Rome, but after the embracing of Christian Religion, which is to fall, and consequently that out of which Christs People are called;