A95762:97
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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Viegas of likelihood was aware of this, and therefore hath devised another shift to escape by: He saith, Rome is here to be t•ken in a double ⟨p. 51⟩estate. That before it received Christs Faith, and that which shall be in Antichrists time: when (as Saint John saith in this and the former Chapter) It shall revolt from the Bishop of Rome, and from the Faith (as he saith) a little before Antichrists coming, or at least at the beginning of his Kingdom Rome shall be grown proud, and secure, so as to say, I sit as a Queen; and then by the ten Kings mentioned in the former Chapter (who had given their Kingdoms unto her;) shall she be ruined and burnt, &c In this Exposition, the revolt that he tells of from the Obedience of the See of Rome, is a Fancy of his own, and hath not the least ground in St. Johns Vision, That the revolt from the Faith, whereof the Apostle Paul speaks, (2 Thessalonians 2.) is the very Apostasy of Antichrist the man of sin, and son of perdition, 1that ⟨p. 52⟩Rome in Antichrists time shall be secure, and account her self to sit as a Queen, and then be destroyed by the ten Kings that formerly had served and obeyed her; this is very true, as being expressly so laid down in the 16. and 17. Vers. of the former Chapter. But that which befell the Jews in the looking for the Kingdom of Christ when it was already among them, happeneth to Viegas and those of his side, They fondly look for Antichrist the last head of the beast, whereupon the Babylonian Harlot sitteth above a thousand years after all the former, and consider not that this beast is one Principality under divers forms of Government, whereof five being fallen in Saint Johns time, one then in being, and the other to endure, a short space. To make this short space a thousand years, or else to put in ⟨p. 53⟩so many years of the Popes government over Rome before Antichrist come, who shall forsooth revolt from his Obedience:
Viegas of likelyhood was aware of this, and therefore hath devised another shift to escape by: He saith, Rome is here to be tken in a double