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A64661	The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1658 (1658)	Wing U188; ESTC R24649	53,942	189

the genuine Epistles of Ignatius are fouly depraved by a number of beggarly patches added unto his purple by later hands there is an ancient Latine translation to bee found in the Library of Caies Colledge in Cambridge which although it be very rude and corrupt both in many other and in this very same place also of the Epistle to the Magnesians yet is it free from these additaments and in many respects to be preferred before the common Greek Copy as well because it agreeth with the Citations of Eusebius Athanasius and Theodoret and hath the sentences vouched by them out of Ignatius and particularly that of the Eucharist in the Epistle to the Smyrnians which are not at all to be found in our Greek and hath in a manner none of all those places in the true Epistles of Ignatius against which exception hath been taken by our Divines which addeth great strength to those exceptions of theirs and sheweth that they were not made without good cause Now in this Translation there is nothing to be found touching the Sabbath and the Lords day in the Epistle to the Magnesians but these words only Non ampliùs sabbatizantes sed secundùm Dominicam viventes in quâ vita nostra orta est whereunto these of our common Greeke may be made answerable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all those other words alleadged by Dr. Heylin part 2. pag. 43. to prove that Ignatius would have both the Sabbath and the Lords day observed being afterwards added by some later Grecian who was afraid that the custome of keeping both dayes observed in his time should appear otherwise to be directly opposite to the sentence of Ignatius whereas his main intention was to oppose the Ebionites of his owne time who as Eusebius witnesseth in the third book of his Ecclesiasticall History did both keep the Sabbath with the Jewes and also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By whose imitation of the Church herein the antiquity of the observation of the Lords day may be further confirmed Ebion being known to have been St. Paul's Antagonist and to have given out of himself that he was one of those that brought the prices of their goods and laid them down at the Apostles feet as the universality of the observance may be gathered by the argument drawn from thence by Eusebius towards the end of his Oration of the praises of Constantine to prove the preeminency of our Saviour Christ above all the gods of the Heathen because this prescript of his touching the celebration of this day was admitted and submitted unto not within the Dominions of Constantine onely but also throughout the compasse of the whole world Quis n. saith he cunctis totius orbis terrarum incobis seu terra seu mari illi sint praescripserit ut singulis septimanis in unum convenientes diem Dominicum festum celebrarent instituentque ut sicut corpora pascerent cibariis sic animos Divinis Disciplinis refi●erent We see then that the Doctrine which the true Ignatius received immediately from the hands of the Apostles was the very same with that was delivered by the Fathers of the Councel of Laodicea about 250 years after for the profs produced by the Authours to whom my Lord of Eli pag. 73. refereth us for having it to be held before the first Nicene are nothing worth Non oportet Christianos Judaizare in Sabbatho otiari sed ipsos eo die operari diem autem dominicum praeferentes otiari si modo possint ut Christianos the contrary whereunto Pope Gregory the first in Registr lib. 11. Epist. 3. esteemeth to bee the Doctrine of the Preachers of Antichrist qui veniens diem Dominicum Sabbatum ab omni opere faciet custodiri which my Lord of Eli pag. 219. rendreth upon the old Sabbath-day or upon the Sunday by a strange kinde of mistake turning the copulative into a disjunctive A Letter of Doctor Twisse to the Lord Primate thanking him for the former Letter and his Book de primordiis Brit. Eccles. The History of Goteschalcus c. where the honour and respect he gives him is exemplary unto others Most Reverend Father in God I was very glad to hear of your Grace his coming over into England and now I have a faire opportunity to expresse my thankfull acknowledgement of that great favour wherewith you were pleased to honour me in bestowing one of your books upon me de origine Britannicarum Ecclesiarum which I received from Sir Benjamin Rudierd in your Grace his name about the end of Summer last wherein I do observe not onely your great learning and various reading manifested at full but your singular wisdom also in reference to the necessitous condition of these times taking so fair an occasion to insert therein the History of the Pelagian Heresie so opportunely coming in your way Your History of Goteschalcus was a piece of the like nature which came forth most seasonably we know what meetings there were in London thereupon by some and to what end to relieve the reputation of Vossius who laboured not a little when he was discovered to have alleadged the confession of Pelagius for the confession of Austin As also in fathering upon the Adrametine Monkes the Original of the Praedestinarian Heresie I was at that time upon answering Corvinus his defence of Arminius and had dispatcht one digression upon the same argument and in the issue concluded that it was but a trick of the Pelagians to cast the Nick-name of the Praedestinarian Heresie upon the Orthodox Doctrine of St. Austine But upon the coming forth of your Goteschalcus I was not onely confirmed therein but upon better and more evident grounds enabled in a second digression to meet with the Dictates of who endeavoured to justifie the conceit of Vossius but upon very weak grounds Thus I have observed with comfort the hand of God to have gone along with your Grace for the honouring of the cause of his truth in so precious a point as is the glory of his Grace And I nothing doubt but the same hand of our good God will be with you still and his wisdome will appear in all things you undertake whether of your own choice or upon the motion of others There being never more need of hearkening unto and putting in practice our Saviours rule Be ye wise as Serpents and innocent as Doves And have I not as great cause to return your Grace most hearty thanks for the kind Letters I received in answer to the motions I was emboldned to make had it been but onely to signifie the great satisfaction I received thereby in divers particulars but especially in two principal ones the one the mystery of the feasts of first fruits opened to the singular advantage of the honour of the Lords day in the time of the Gospel the other in correcting Ignatius by a Latine Manuscript of Caies Colledge which since I have gotten