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A95762	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.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing U189; Thomason E1783_1; ESTC R209661	108,824	393

returneth not in vain and where true Faith is Men are translated from death to life he that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life John 3. last vers Some men perhaps may object the Faith which they describe and call by this name of Catholick Faith Is none other but such as the Divels may have I answer Religion is not Logick He that cannot give a true definition of the soul is not for that without a soul so he that defines not Faith truely yet may have true Faith learned Divines are not all of accord touching the definition of it But if as by the whole stream of the Scripture it should seem to be a trust and cleaving unto God this Faith many there have the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ is wrought in many there John 14.21.23 now he that loveth Christ is loved of him and of the Father also and because the proof of true love to Christ is the keeping of his sayings their are good works and according to the measure of knowledge great conscience of obedience Yea will some man say But that which marreth all is the Opinion of merit and satisfaction Indeed that is the School Doctrine but the Conscience enlightned to know it self will easily act that part of the Publican who smote his breast and said God be merciful to me a sinner I remember a good advice of one of that side let others saith he that have commi●ted few sinnes and done many good workes satisfie for their sins But whatsoever thou dost refer it to the Honour of God so as whatsoever good come from thee thou resolve to doe it to please God accounting thy works too little to satisfie for thy sins For as for thy sins thou must offer Christs works his pains and wounds and his death it self to him together with that love of his out of which he endured these things for thee These are available for the satisfaction for thy sins But thou whatsoever thou dost or sufferest offer it not for thy sins to God but for his love and good pleasure wishing to find the more grace with him whereby thou mayest doe more greater and more acceptable works to him let the love of God then be to thee the cause of well-living and the hope of well-working thus he and I doubt not but many there be on that side that follow this Councel here with I shall relate the speach of a wise and discreet Gentleman my neighbour in England who lived and died a Recusant he demanded one time What was the worst Opinion that we could impute to the Church of Rome It was said there was none more then this of our merits And that Cardinal Bellarmine not onely doth uphold them but saith De justifica lib. 5. cap. 7. we may trust in them so it be done soberly And saith they deserve Eternal life not onely in respect of Gods promises and Covenant but also in regard of the work it self whereupon he answered Bellarmine was a learned man and could perhaps defend what he wrote by learning But for his part he trusted to be sav●d onely by the merits of his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as for good works he would do all that he could Et valeant quantum volere possint To proceed In or under the Obedience of Rome there is Persecution and that is a better mark of Christs people then Bellarmines Temporal felicity all that will live godly in Christ Iesus saith the Apostle shall suffer persecution ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake saith our Saviour and so are all they on that side that are less superstitious then others or dare speak of redress of abuses yea there is Martyrdome for a free opposing mens traditions Image-worshipers Purgatory and the like Add that inobedience to this call of Christ there do some come dayly from thence and in truth how could our Saviour call his people from thence if he had none there How could the Apostles say that Antichrist from whose captivity they are called shall sit in the Temple of God since that Ierusalem is finally and utterly desolated unless the same Apostle otherwhere declaring himself had shewed us his meaning that the Church is the house of God and again 1 Tim. 3.15 ye are the Temple of the living God and the Temple of God is Holy which are ye It will be said that there are on that side many gross errors many open Idolatries and superstitions so as those which live there must needs be either partakers of them and like minded or else very Hypocrites But many errors and much ignorance so it be not affected may stand with true Faith in Christ and when there is true Contrition for our sins that is because it displeaseth God there is a general and implicite repentance for all unknown sins Gods Providence in the general revolt of the ten Tribes when Elias thought himselfe left alone had reserved seven thousand 1 Kings 19 18. that had not bowed to the Image of Baal and the like may be conceived here since especially the Idolatry practised under the obedience of Mystical Babylon is rather in false and will-worship of the true God and rather commended as profitable then as absolutely necessary enjoyned and the corruptions there maintained rather in superfluous addition then retraction in any thing necessary to salvation Neither let that hard term of hypocrisie be used of the infirmity and sometime humble and peaceable carriage of some that oppose not common errors nor wrestle with the greater part of men but do follow the multitude reserving a right knowledge to themselves and sometimes by the favour which God gives them to find where they live obtain better conditions then others can We call not Iohn the beloved Disciple an hypocrite because he was known to the High Priest John 18.15 16. and could procure Peter to be let to see the arraignment of our Saviour nor Peter himself that for fear denied him much less Daniel and his companions that by suit obtained of Melzar their keeper that they might feed upon pulse and not be defiled with the King of Babels meat Daniel 1. v. 16.2 and these knew themselves to be captives and in Babel But in the new Babel how many thousands do we think there are that think otherwise that they are in the true Catholike Church of God the name whereof this harlot hath usurped And although they acknowledge that where they live are many abuses and that the Church hath need of reformation yet there they were born and they may not abandon their Mother in her sickness Those that converse more inwardly with men of Conscience on that side doe know that these are speeches in secret which how they will be justified against the commands of Christ come out of her my people belongs to another place to consider For the purpose we have now in hand I dare not but account these the people of

Colledge Library in Cambridge He was buried acccording to his own appointment in the Church-yard of the Cathedral of Kilmore where he had caused his wife and son some years before to be buried His judgement being against burials in Churches as an abuse introduced by pride superstition I conclude only with this if the Moderation of this Bishop had been observed elsewhere I believe Episcopacy might have been kept upon its wheeles A Letter of Sir Henry Wottons to the late King in the behalf of Bishop Bedel when he was desired by the Archbishop of Armagh to accept of the Provostship of Dublin Colledge in Ireland which hath been lately published in the Life of Sir Henry Wotton May it please your most Gracious Majesty HAving been informed that certain persons have by the good wishes of the Arch-Bishop of Armagh been directed hither with a most humble Petition unto your Majesty that you will be pleased to make Mr. William Bedell now resident upon a small Benefice in Suffolk Governour of your Colledg at Dublin for the good of that society and my self being required to render unto your Majesty some testimony of the said William Bedell who was long my Chaplain at Venice in the time of my employment there I am bound in all conscience and truth so far as your Majesty will vouchsafe to accept my poore judgement to affirm of him that I think hardly a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded unto your Majesty in your whole Kingdom for singular erudition and piety Conformitie to the rites of the Church and Zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the Excommunication of the Venetians For may it please your Majesty to know that this is the man whom Padro Paule took I may say into his very soule with whom he did communicate the inwardest thoughts of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinity both Scholastical and positive then from any that he had ever practiced in his dayes of which all the passages were well known to the King your Father of most blessed memory And so with your Majesties good favour I will end this needlesse office for the generall fame of his Learning his Life and Christian temper and those religious labours which himself hath dedicated to your Majesty do better describe him then I am able Your Majesties most humble and faithfull Servant H. WOTTON A Postscript Mr. Thomas Pierce hath in an Appendage to a late book of his printed five Letters wrot unto me by him in each of which I cannot but much acknowledge his respects to me To the four first I gave little else but brief returnes of the like to him which consisting chiefly either in the asserting of the nearnesse of his judgement to the Primates or the remotenesse of Mr. Barlees I did not conceive it fitting for me to interpose and where there was a professed full agreement it was no good office in me to make a difference Now for those the cause rendred of his not publishing them is good there being nothing as he saith needfull or of concernment in any one of them Only to the fifth of his wherein three Certificates are published as testimonies to confirm his former assertion of a late change of judgment in the Primate with other applicatory passages from thence I did return him a larger answer in this Letter following excepting some few circumstantiall alterations having then no imagination that either of them should have bin made publick And I have as little mind to it now only by the provocation of divers of my Friends who conceive the Primate suffers in the interpretation of many by the silence of it I have been compelled upon this occasion to put forth this brief defence of him without any offence to Mr. Pierce For his Appendage wherein his respects to me are rather encreased then lessened I have thought fit to clear one passage He saith I have spoken indiscriminately of Universal Grace and Vniversall Redemption and the place he quotes for it is out of my second Letter to Mr. Barlee p. 64. in these words viz. But that by an Vniversall Redemption should be understood an Vniversall Grace c. will not be attested to have heen affirmed by the Primate c. doth not this clearly imply a distinction to be made between them I am sure I then so intended it And therefore that which he addes immediately after viz. That there is a wide difference between them I do fully concurre with him in it Yet it seems to me that himself puts them together often indiscriminately as in the page before this thrice in one page 86. and p. 88. l. 32. as in his Philanth p. 15. and elsewhere And if I have in any other place done it as in the title of the Letter I was led to it by him In this we have no disagreement and I wish this following Letter may not occasion any which I am forced thus to publish as followeth Doctor Bernards Answer to Mr. Pierces Fifth Letter containing three Certificates produced by him to justifie a late change of judgsment in the Primate of Ireland SIR I Owe you many thanks for the labour you have taken in your last Letter of the 28. of January in transcribing the Certificates of those learned persons which supposing to have been rightly apprehended by them without any mistake of him yet favourably interpreted do not seem to me necessarily to argue what you have apprehended and concluded of the change of judgement in the Primate which I shall now ingenuously give you my sense of without any desire of further dispute or contention about it First for Doctor Waltons where he saith My Lord Primate did declare his utter dislike of the doctrine of absolute reprobation I conceive it may be understood of the Supralapsarian opinion which makes reprobation to be antecedent to the fall of Adam and not only as a Praeterition but a Predamnation for actuall sins That he held the universality of Christs death not onely in respect of sufficiency but also in regard of efficacy so that all men were by that made salvable for so much efficacy I do not deny differs not from that which his letter published doth testifie and that the reason why all men were not thereby saved was because they did not accept of salvation offered is also granted if it be according to his judgement rightly understood viz. of those to whom the Gospel is preached not of Pagans and Infidels That the grace of Conversion was not irresistable but that men did often resist and reject the same may well stand with my Lord Primates Judgement and no wayes opposite to this viz. That it is so effectual that by the decree of his election It is not resisted by the elect and therefore his dissent from Geneva as Doctor Walton certifies is to be understood of Beza not of

spiritual real conversion which he denies to any reprobate Now in this variety of senses you should have done better then thus to chuse the worse for the Primates judgement who was against the Total and final falling away of those who were effectually called truly regenerated and sanctified according to the 38 Article of Ireland And thus I have touched the principal materials in your Letter For that you say some have endeavoured to gain credit to their Calvinistical opinions by their unjust usurpation of the Primates name I could wish those hard expressions tending so much to the distaste of Calvin might be abated whom divers of the most eminent Writers and learned Fathers of our Church whom I suppose you reverence have had in great esteem and usually name him with honour I might quote divers as Arch-Bishop Whitgift Bishop Bilson Bishop Davenant Mr. Hooker Doctor Ward c. but Bishop Andrewes shall suffice who in his determination against usury a case wherein he dissented from Calvin yet thus writes of of him Calvino illustri viro nec unquam sine summi honoris praefatione nominando c. i. e. Calvin an excellent man never to be named without a Preface of the highest honour I wish that spirit of meeknesse and charity found in those old Bishops were doubled upon us in these dayes when we are as much if not more called unto it The contrary may possibly be gratefull to the See of Rome but I do not see what advantage it can be to us For his discipline you may take your liberty which may well be distinguished from his doctrines And for the Primate though I cannot say he was of his judgement in all points yet he had a due respect for him For that which you object again to me as you did in your third Letter viz. my acknowledgeing an enngagement to Mr. Barlee for his readinesse offered in his first Letter unto me to clear the Primate c. did not deserve a repetition being it was in my first to him when he was as much a stranger to me as I was to you only let me say thus much of him How far he had disagreed in his book from the Primates judgement I shall not now enquire but after the receipt of that tractate wherein he read what his was he wrot thus unto me Decemb. 21. 1657. viz. It is true there be some minutiae about which I am not satisfied and shall be glad to have an amicable conference with you However as to the rei summam I do so perfectly agree with the most venerable Primate as that I dare discharge you from all feares of ever having him exposed to my pen and censure c. which I doe the rather thus punctually repeat his words because in short you have mentioned it from me in your fourth Letter And when I had read you both meeting in the Primate I thought it my part to sit down in silence In a word you have with much industry viewed and reviewed the Primates judgement in that point which hath been published but I wish I did not find you making that use of it to endeavour to confirm your former assertion of a change in him in which I am not in the least shaken in mind by what hath passed between us but must still conceive contrary to your expectation in the beginning of your Letter there was a mistake wheresoever it lights which being so gentle an expression and which we are all subject unto I see no cause of any offence either to your self or Certifiers I shall entreat you to let the venerable name as you stile it of that good man rest in peace without any further strife of tongues or pens and let us leave his judgment to his works which do undoubtedly testifie of him and for any further dispute of this subject between us I wish this might be the last as it is the largest and that neither by this nor any other the least breach may be made between us as to love and friendship which upon all occasions shall ever ber readily manifested by Grayes-Inne Febr. 9. 1657. Your assured Friend and Servant N. BERNARD FINIS