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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

it were his pleasure his justice should be no loser but all do not obtain actual remission because most offenders do not take out nor plead their pardon as they ought to do If Christ had not assumed our Nature and therein made satisfaction for the injury offered to the divine Majesty God would not have come unto a Treaty of peace with us more than with the fallen Angels whose nature the Sonne did not assume But this way being made God holds out unto us the golden Scepter of his Word and thereby not onely signifieth his pleasure of admitting us unto his presence and accepting of our submission which is a wonderful Grace but also sends an Embassage unto us and entreats us that we would be reconciled unto him 2 Cor. 5. 20. Hence we inferre against the first extremity that by the vertue of this blessed Oblation God is made placable unto our nature which he never will be unto the Angelical nature offending but not actually appeased with any untill he hath received his son and put on the Lord Jesus As also against the latter extremity that all men may be truly said to have interest in the merits of Christ as in a Common though all do not enjoy the benefit thereof because they have no will to take it The well-spring of life is set open unto all Apoc. 22. 17. Whosoeever will let him take of the water of life freely but many have nothing to draw with and the Well is deep Faith is the vessel whereby we draw all vertue from Christ and the Apostle tells us That Faith is not of all 2 Thes. 3. 2. Now the means of getting this Faith is the hearing of the word of truth the Gospel of our salvation Ephes. 1. 13. which ministreth this general ground for every one to build his Faith upon Syllogisme What Christ hath prepared for thee and the Gospel offereth unto thee that oughtest thou with all thankfulnesse to accept and apply to the comfort of thy own Soul But Christ by his death and obedience hath provided a sufficient remedy for the taking away of all thy sinnes and the Gospel offereth the same unto thee Therefore thou oughtest to accept and apply the same to the comfort of thine own Soul Now this Gospel of salvation many do not hear at all being destitute of the Ministery of the Word and many hearing do not believe or lightly regard it and many that do believe the truth thereof are so wedded to their sinnes that they have no desire to bee divorced from them and therefore they refuse to accept the gratious offer that is made unto them And yet notwithstanding their refusal on their part we may truly say That good things were provided for them on Christs part and a rich price was put into the hands of a Foole howsoever he had no heart to use it Prov. 17. 16. Our blessed Saviour by that which he hath performed on his part hath procured a Jubilee for the Sons of Adam and his Gospel is his Trumpet whereby he doth proclaim Liberty to the Captives and preacheth the acceptable yeare of the Lord Luke 4. 18 19. If for all this some are so well pleased with their Captivity that they desire no deliverance that derogates nothing from the generality of the freedome annexed to that year If one say to sinne his old Master Levites 25. 24. Exod. 21. 5. Deut 15 26 I love thee and will not go out free he shall be bored for a slave and serve for ever But that slavish disposition of his maketh the extent of the priviledge of that yeare not a whit the straiter because he was included within the general Grant as well as others howsoever he was not disposed to take the benefit of it The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a certain King that made a marriage of his Son and sent his servants to those that were bidden to the Wedding with this message Behold I have prepared my Dinner my Oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready Come to the Marriage verse 4. If we look to the event They they that were bidden made light of their entertainment and went their wayes one to his Farme and another to his Merchandize verse 5. but that neglect of theirs doth not falsify the word of the King verse 4. viz. That the Dinner was prepared and these unworthy Guests were invited thereunto For what if some did not believe shall their unbelief disannull the Faith and truth of God Rom. 3. 3 4. God forbid yea let God be true every man a lyar as it is written that thou mayest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou judgest Let not the house of Israel say the way of the Lord is unequall For when he cometh to judge them the inequality will be found on their side and not on his O house of Israel are not my wayes equal and your wayes unequal saith the Lord Ezek 18. 29 30. The Lord is right in all his wayes and holy in all his works All the wayes of our God are mercy and truth when we were in our sinnes it was of his infinite mercy that any way or remedy should be prepared for our recovery And when the remedy is prepared we are never the nearer except he be pleased of his free mercy to apply the same to us that so the whole praise of our Redemption from the beginning to the end thereof may intirely be attributed to the riches of his grace and nothing left to sinfull flesh wherein it may rejoyce The freeing of the Jewes from the Captivity of Babylon was a Type of that great deliverance which the Son of God hath wrought for us Cyrus King of Fersia who was Christus Domini and herein but a shadow of Christus Dominus the Authour of our Redemption published his Proclamation in this manner Who is amongst you of all his people the Lord his God be with him and let him go up 2 Chron 36. 23. and 1 Ezra 2. Now it is true they alone did follow this Calling whose spirit God had raised to go up Ezra 1. 5. But could they that remained still in Babylon justly plead That the Kings Grant was not large enough or that they were excluded from going up by any clause contained therein The matter of our Redemption purchased by our Saviour Christ lieth open to all all are invited to it none that hath a mind to accept of it is excluded from it The beautifull feet of those that preach the Gospell of peace do bring glad tidings of good things to every house where they tread The first part of their Message being this Peace to this house Rom. 10. 15. Luke 10. 5. Luke 17. But unlesse God be pleased out of his abundant mercy to guide our feet into the way of peace the Rebellion of our Nature is such that that we run head-long to the wayes of destruction and misery Rom. 3. 16. and the wayes of peace do

Londini 1655. These four last are sold by John Crook at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard In English AN Answer to a challenge made by the Jesuite Malone in Ireland Anno 1631. A Sermon preached before the House of Commons Febr. 18. 1618. A Declaration of the visibility of the Church preached in a Sermon before King James June 20. 1624. A Speech delivered in the Castle-Chamber in Dublin the 22. of November 1622. The Religion profest by the ancient Irish and Brittains 4o. 1631. These five are bound together in Quarto Immanuel or the Incarnation of the Son of God 4o. Dublin 1639. A Geographical Description of the Lesser Asia 4o. Oxford 1644. The judgement of Doctor Reynolds touching the Original of Episcopacy more largely confirmed out of Antiquity An. 1641. His Discourse of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitanes in 4o. Oxford 1644. His small Catechisme re-viewed 12o. London 1654. ☞ His aforesaid Annals of the Old and New Testament with the Synchronismus of Heathen Story to the destruction of Jerusalem translated out of Latin into English now at the Presse Fol. to be sold by John Crook at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard In regard there have been and are divers books printed which go under the name of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh but are not his and more may be obtruded to the injury of him I have thought fit at the request of the Printer to give the Reader this advertisement following IN Anno● 1640. There was a book printed entitled the Bishop of Armaghs direction to the house of Parliament concerning the Liturgy and Episcopal Government and Anno 1641. Another book entitled Vox Hiberniae being some pretended notes of his at a publick fast Both these at his Petition were suppressed by order from the House of Lords and Commons 11. Feb. 1641. and I hope will not be revived In Anno 1651. A book called A Method for Meditation or a manual of Divine duties which most injuriously is printed in his name but is none of his which he directed me then to declare publickly as from him yet in 1657. It is again reprinted to his great dishonour For his small Catechisme the Reader is to take notice that there was a false one Printed without his knowledge and is still sold for his The injury he received by it compelled him to review it with an Epistle of his own before it which is the mark to know the right Edition though being framed for his private use in his younger yeares about 23. he had no intention of it for the publick If any Sermon-Notes taken from him have been Printed in his life-time under his name or shall be hereafter which divers have of late attempted The Reader is to take notice that it was against his minde and that they are disowned by him which as he endeavoured to his utmost to suppresse while he was living so it was his fear to be injured in it after his death For a further confirmation of which I shall give you part of a Letter of his while he was Bishop of Meath upon the like intention of a Printer who had gotten into his hands some Notes of his Sermons said to be preached by him in London and was about to publish them which he wrote to Doctor Featly Chaplain to the then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the stopping of them in these words I beseech you to use all your power to save me from that disgrace which undiscreet and covetous men go about to fasten upon me or else I must be driven to protest against their injurious dealings with me and say as Donatus once did Mala illis sit qui mea festinant edere ante me But I repose cenfidence in you that you will take order that so great a wrong as this may not be done unto me Remember me to worthy Doctor Goad and forget not in your prayers Dublin Sept. 16. 1622. Your most assured loving friend and fellow labourer J. A. MEDENSIS THat book entitled the summe and substance of Christian religion some of the materials with the Method are his collected by him in his yonger years for his own private use but being so unpolished defective and full of mistakes he was much displeased at the publishing of it in his name And though it be much commended at home and by Ludovicus Crocius abroad yet that he did disown it as it is now set forth this Letter following wrote to Mr. John Downham who caused it to be printed doth sufficiently confirm as followeth SIR YOu may be pleased to take notice that the Catechisme you write of is none of mine but transcribed out of Mr Cartwrights Catechisme and Mr. Crooks and some other English Divines but drawn together in one Method as a kind of Common-place-book where other mens judgements and reasons are simply laid down though not approved in all points by the Collector besides that the Collection such as it is being lent abroad to divers in scattered sheets hath for a great part of it miscarried the one half of it as I suppose well nigh being no way to be recovered so that so imperfect a thing Copied verbatim out of others and in divers places dissonant from mine own judgement may not by any meanes be owned by me But if it shall seem good to any industrious person to cut off what is weak and superfluous therein and supply the wants thereof and cast it into a new mould of his own framing I shall be very well content that he make what use he pleaseth of any the materials therein and set out the whole in his own name and this is the resolution of May 13. 1645. Your most assured loving friend JA. ARMACHANUS A Book entituled Confessions and Proofs of Protestant Divines of Reformed Churches for Episcopacy c. though it be a very Learned one yet it is not his Onely that of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitans Frequently bound up with the former is owned by him unto which he was earnestly moved by a Letter from Doctor Hall the late Reverend and Learned Bishop of Norwich then Bishop of Exeter which shewing the great esteem he had of him is annexed as followeth To the most Reverend Father in God and my most Honoured Lord the Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland Most Reverend and my most worthily Honoured Lord. THat which fell from me yesterday suddenly and transcursively hath since taken up my after-midnight thoughts and I must crave leave what I then moved to importune that your Grace would be pleased to bestow one sheet of paper upon these distracted times in the subject of Episcopacy shewing the Apostolical Original of it and the grounds of it from Scripture and the immediately succeeding antiquity Every line of it coming from your Graces hand would be super rotas suas as Solomons expression is very Apples of Gold with Pictures of Silver and more worth than volumes from us Think that I stand before you like the