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A64635	Certain discourses, viz. 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 ministry, of the old form of words in ordination, of a set form of prayer : each being the judgment of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland / published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard ... : 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 U161; ESTC R10033	109,687	392

which are meant as I conceive Vrbs Romana Imperium Romanum Pontifex Romanus and Clerus Romanus The two beasts in Cap. 13. verse 11. are plainly distinguished and that distinction must necessarily be observed in the seventeenth Chapter Likewise for the great beast mentioned in the third and seventh verses of that Chapter is the same with the first beast of the thirteenth Chapter as appeareth by the like description of the seven heads and ten horns the lesser beasts mentioned in the eighth and eleventh verses which is the last head of the former can be no other but the second beast mentioned in the thirteenth Chapter verse 22 who revived the Image of the former i. e. of the Empire and made all to admire and adore it Now the Question is how this latter which is Pontifex Romanus can be said to be the beast that was and is not and yet is My conceit of this is Singular but such as it is I will not conceal from you The Pontifices among the ancient Rom. as Dionysius Halicarnassaeus noteth in his second Book of Roman Antiquities were obnoxious to no other jurisdiction neither were bound to render account of their doings to any they were only at the command of the Pontifex maximus whose authority was so great that the Emperours thought it inconvenient that this Supremacy should be committed to any other therefore by assumeing it to themselves and anexing it to their imperial Crown they did by this means extinguish the Spiritual Magistracie and in a sort extinguish the solemne Magistracy which under the 5. former heads was distinguished from all other superiour Governments and prosecuted with special regard and reverence That as if now for example in our state one should Prophesie of the Government of the Dukes of Lancaster under the like Type he might say of them in this manner The beast that was for the Dukes of Lancaster in their time have been great and is not for by annexing of the Dutchey to the Crown there is now no speech of any Duke and yet i● for the Dutchey still remaineth with the several offices appertaining thereunto though the state of the Duke lieth as it were drowned in the person of the King So in like manner the Angel might speak of these Pontifices Roman● the beast that was for he was in former time of speciall account And is not Being now confounded and in a manner swallowed up with the state of the Emperour And yet is for the Priest-hood remained still the Title and Dignity thereof resting in the Emperour This Beast this Pontifex Romanus shall hereafter appear in his Pontificalibus and by his creatures the false Prophet induce the world to accept his Ponti●ical power for the highest upon earth as before they did the Imperial the image whereof is in this perfectly revived As for the second we are to consider that the seven heads of the first beast are expounded Apoc. 17. 9. 10. to be both the seven Mountains on which the woman i. e. the great City verse 18. was seated and the seven Kings or head Governours by which that City was ruled The Pope in regard of his Civil power over the woman i. e. his Regall Power over the City of Rome orderly succeedeth the six heads that went before him and so becometh the seventh claiming that respect in higher headship then did his Predecessors But not content with that for whereas the state of Pontifex maximus which in Saint Iohns time after a sort was and is not as hath been shewed by means of the Christian Emperors was clean extinguisht the first of them bearing only the Title but not exercising the Office and Gratian the Emperour at last abolishing both the Title and the Office as by Zosimus a heathen Historian we understand the Pope raised it again out of the grave and took it to himself and after he had gotten to be the seventh head retained not the pontificality as an appendant of his regall Power as did the Emperours before him but advanced the head thereof far above any of the seven civil supreme governments making himself by that means an eight head distinct from any of the former which in respect of his civil Power was one of the seven Neither was he content to extend the jurisdiction of his Pontificality ad urbem regiones suburbicarias onely or to bound it within the confines of Italy but which was never done by any Pontifex maximus before him by being Pontifex urbis he challenged a Title of Summus Pontifex Orbis and so became not onely a head of the former beast but also a severall beast by himself receiving in his government the image of the former beasts drawing all the world to worship the same for as Augustinus Steuchus writeth in his second Book against Laur. Valla when the Pontificality was first set up in Rome all Nations from East to West did worship the Pope no otherwise then of old the Caesars A SERMON Preached at Christ-Church Dublyn before the Lord Deputie and the Parliament of Ireland by BP BEDELL Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland Anno 1634. Revel 18. 4. And I heard another voyce from Heaven saying Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Right Honorable Reverend Worshipful and Beloved THe Censure that Saint Hierome passeth on this Book of the Revelation Tot Sacramenta quot Ver●● so many Words so many Mysteries hath often run in my mind and made me even fearful to pronounce concerning the divers Visions in it and even loath to meddle with it Neither have I to my best rememberance above twice in my whole life chosen any Text out of it to declare out of this place which resolution I should stil have holden save that I conceive some extraordinary fitness in this passage for the present occasion of this great meeting And yet even now I shall treat of such a part as is none of the hardest to be understood so as with out lanching into any deep and subtle Disputations we may keep us by the shore side And if you will be pleased to favour my indeavour with your religious Attention and the weaknesse of my voyce with your silence I will hold as straight a course as I can and without further preamble come to the matter it self of this Text. And first for the Connexion and Declaration of the Sence you shall be pleased to understand that in the former Chapter Saint Iohn is shewed a sight whereat he wondered with great marvel A woman sitting upon a Scarlet coloured beast full of names of Blasphemy which had seven heads and tenn horns this woman had in her fore-head a name written Babylon the great the Mother of harlots and Abominations of the Earth And in the rest of the Chapter the Mystery of the Woman and the beast that bare her being largely declared and one thing amongst the rest that she sitts

is observable the argument which he useth he produceth as a Maxime then in his time taken for granted not to be proved but supposed no man then so much as questioning the necessity of it for though there were then divers disputes about discipline and ceremonies in which this learned Authour then appeared yet both parties esteemed alike of Ordination to be a sacred institution none presuming to take upon them the office of the Ministery without it Well this I conceive to be the sence here of laying on of hands viz. That it was a Principle of the Catechisme taught to Christians at their first reception that there was to be a successive ordination or setting apart of persons for the Ministery for an authorative preaching of faith and repentance and administration of Sacraments called laying on of hands from the outward rite as the Lords Supper by breaking of bread And this was the judgement of the most Reverend and learned Father of our Church the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh which hath the rather emboldned me to employ my thoughts in the confirmation of it and surely if it be a fundamentall the knowledge of the sense of it is of a greater consequence then to be slighted First it is considerable how well this doth sute with Saint Pauls expression elsewhere speaking of Ordination 2 Tim. 1. 6. Stirre up the gift of God that is in thee by the putting on of my hands 1 Tim. 4. 14. neglect not the gift that is in thee given thee with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery both thus sufficiently reconciled Saint Paul was the principal the Presbyters were his assistants according to the constitutions and custome of our Church in Ordination The Bishop is not to do it alone but with the assistance of at least three or four of the Ministers which was after the pattern of the Primitive times The injunction of Saint Paul for it is accordingly 2 Tim. 5. 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man i. e. ordain And it is the more observable that all are from one and the same Apostle it being one argument to prove Saint Paul was the Authour of this Epistle to the Hebrews by the use of this expression here which is not in the Epistles of any other Apostle 'T is true we read of extraordinary gifts of tongues c. given by laying on of hands in the Acts but they cannot be understood here for they were but temporary and ceased like Scaffolds which after the building of an house are taken down but what is meant here must be as the foundation which remains to the last and all falls with it that agrees to an Ordained Ministery which must continue for the preaching of faith and repentance and administration of Sacraments to the end of the world In which sence is that last speech of our Saviour Matth. 28. Lo I am with you unto the end of the world it cannot be limited to the persons of the Apostles with whose deaths those Administrations did not expire but must be understood collectively of the whole body of the Ministery then as it were in their loines who should succeed in preaching and Baptisme and through whom a successive powerful assistance of the spirit is to be transferred in and through those unto the worlds end This power of officiating was powred on the head of the Apostles and descendeth to the skirts of their garments in these dayes And how like a fundamental Ordination is may easily appear it began at the foundation of the Church and was one of the first stones laid in this Edifice and it must continue to the last for as the Lords Supper is to continue till the second coming of Christ so the Ministers of it have the same term also Ephes. 4. 13. He gave some Pastors Teachers c. Till we all come unto a perfect man unto the measure of the Stature of the fullnesse of Christ c. Rom. 10. 15. Ye have a building of four or five stories high of severall Acts and Ministrations but Ordination of a Ministery is the Foundation Salvation is at the top of this Iacobs Ladder but Ordination at the bottome Whosoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved but how shall they call on him on mhom they have not believed how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent c. See praying believing hearing preaching and then as the foundation of all a Mission of Preachers for that end what is said of the Commandements of the Law Iames 2. he that offends in one is guilty of all such is the concatenation of the principles of the Gospel break one link and all are endangered He that renounceth his Baptisme renounceth his Faith into which he was baptized even the death and resurrection of our Saviour signified by it Colos. 2. Consider what ye do in renouncing the Ministery by whom ye were baptized and have believed 1 Cor. 3. 5. if any efficacy be in the Sacrament according to the qualification authoritative faculty of the person officiating see what hazard you run in rejecting of such so ordained Ye know the speech of our Saviour Matth. 23. 17. He that swears by the Altar sweareth by it and all things thereon and is not the contrary true he that despiseth the Altar despiseth not only that but all that depend on it If the Ordination or Mission of the person through Gods institution be of any efficay to what is officiated I may leave the application to your selves Consider what ye do in a totall renouncing of an ordained Ministery as to Baptisme and believing through whom as instrumentals ye did partake of them If the foundation fall how can the building stand As ye see here Saint Paul makes an ordained Ministery a fundamental principle of Christian Religion So much for the sence of the Text what is meant by laying on of hands Now if Ordination be a fundamental principle hence then these 2 things may be inferred 1. A necessity of continuing an ordained Ministery in the Church and the neglect of it to be the underming of the foundation of it 2. That Ordination is not only an internal call from God but an externall from Man for 't is denominated here from laying on of hands First a necessity of continuing such a distinct Order and profession for preaching and other sacred Administratihns This subject would heretofore have been accounted needlesse to be handled but it is necessary and seasonable now there being many set against the very function as if any man might of himself assume it To such I shall represent these considerations following viz. 1. That in all ages there have been some persons set apart for such divine Offices even before the Law or constitution of Aaron and the Levites as since see some appointed Exod. 19. 22. Let the Priests which come near to

retained 1. For the first Receive the Holy Ghost We do not here understand the sanctifying graces of the spirit For the Apostles had received them before in that they were bid by our Saviour to rejoyce that their names were written in heaven the evidence of which is heaven wrot in the heart here and had his witnesse that they had believed and had kept his word for whom he had also also prayed in that sense Sanctifie them through thy truth John 17. And if this had been the gift there had been no particular thing given to them for all that will be saved must in some measure partake of it Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his And though it be the testimony of a good Christian yet 't is not a sufficient warrant for him to take upon him the Ministery 2. Again it cannot be meant of the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost viz. Gifts of tongues c. For in that sense the Holy Ghost was not yet given till fifty dayes after viz. the Feast of Pentecost but this was given upon the day of his Resurrection So that a third sense must be had which was the Primates as followeth 3. Receive the Holy Ghost i. e. receive Ministeriall power of officiating and dispensing those sacred Ministrations unto which the promise of the holy Spirit is annexed and through which as the Conduit-Pipes this holy water is conveyed not so much meant for their own benefit as the good of others In this he gave them power as the Stewards of God to be dispensers of holy and spiritual things to the benefit of such over whom the Holy Ghost had made them overseers which is accordingly attributed to the Elders of Ephesus whom S. Paul had ordained Mr. Hooker's glosse in his Eccles Polit. is accordingly Receive the Holy Ghost i. e. Accipite potestatem spiritualem receive ghostly or spiritual Authority in order to the soules of men now to be committed to your charge And if you mark the context their Commission is here from the blessed Trinity the Father and Sonne in the verse before As my Father hath sent me so send I you And in this verse a reception of Authority from the third person the Father sends Matth. 9. 38. Chap. 10. 20. the Sonne Ephes. 4. here the Holy Ghost as Acts 20. And so more fully thus Receive the Holy Ghost i. e. receive Authority from the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the efficacious preaching of the Word and Administration of Sacraments by and through which the graces of the holy spirit in repentance faith forgivenesse of sins and the like are ordinarily wrought and confirmed to the hearers and partakers of them yet not excluding it from being a Prayer also viz. that the person thus authorized might receive such a spiritual assistance in it Receive first by way of donation in the name of Christ as to the office and secondly by way of impetration as to the efficacious spiritual assistance of him in it which the accustomed succeeding prayer did confirm which as it was in both senses frequently effectual by the mouth and hands of the Apostles so hath it been accordingly from age to age in and by the Ministery succeeding and therefore why may not the same form of words be used at their Ordination also Can we think this solemn reception of the Holy Ghost in that sense as hath been explained was onely for the benefit of that age and withdrawn totally again in the next That his being with them thus by his spiritual assistance to the end of the world was to determine with the death of the Apostles some of which as Saint Iames Acts 12. were not long after No surely this oyle poured upon their heads descended further then so even to the skirts of their garments in these dayes The third Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians hath much in confirmation of this In the third verse Saint Paul styles the Minister ordained by Christ his Amanuensis ye are the Epistle of Christ ministred by us written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God Christ the inditer the Minister is as the hand of a ready writer or the Spirit is as the ink the Minister as the pen through which 't is diffused upon the fleshly Tables of your hearts and by saying us he doth not appropriate it to himselfe but gives the like to Timothy ordained by him which he continues in the sixth verse God hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament not of the letter but of the spirit as he calls the Word the sword of the spirit Ephes. 6. committed into the hands of the Ministery so the whole office is called the Ministration of the Spirit v. 8. the Ministration of righteousnesse v. 9. i. e. instrumentally be it that of Iustification or Sanctification by which he saith it did exceed in glory that under the law The shining of Moses face the glory of the Temple and vestments of the Priests were glorious but yet had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory which excelleth for if that which is done away were glorious how much more that which remaineth is glorious Now wherein lieth this glory but in being by this Ministration the Conduits through which the Spirit is conveyed and received or being cap. 6. 1. co-workers together with him of it even as the glory of the latter Temple by the presence of Christ himselfe is said to be greater then the former though it had types of him in a more outward glorious lustre 't is therefore called v. 18. the glass of the glory of the Lord by which we are changed into the same Image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Which as it rebukes the Contemners of the office of the Ministery so it answers that frequent objection made against the use of these words at the Ordination to it viz. That the Sanctifying graces of the spirit were sometimes lacking both in the Ordainers transmitting and ordained the recipients It is answered the Transmission or reception of the Holy Ghost here is not meant in that sense as to the resting of it in the persons themselves but as the conveyers of it for the use and benefit of others viz. through these Administrations which they are now by this authorized to performe And that it may be so ye see it in Iudas who by our Saviours Commission to him through preaching and baptizing was the instrument accordingly of the transferring of it i. e. remission of sins c. unto others without partaking of it himself our Saviour calls him a Devill and a son of perdition but yet in this Office the Devils were subject to him and he the means of dispossessing of others like Noahs Carpenters who were instruments to save others but were drowned themselves 'T is probable Saint Paul or some of the Apostles ordained Hymenaeus and Phyletus

Roma Babylon aut Roma quo tempore Babylon esse coeperit Cuirei tot ibi circumstantias adhibet S. Johannes vix ut in ea errare ●uiquam contingat Qu● enim Babylon ibi eadem meretrix magna dicitur c. Edoctum antem ibi se dicit Johannes à spiritu de rebus quae venturae essent Quod si jam Romam ibi quo tu sensu vis designavit nihil venturum edocuit spiritus Ethnica enim tum Roma in Auge erat vel maximè Propheticus verò is liber totus haberi solet c. nimis autem illa misella tum prophetia foret si praediceret fore ut persequeretur Rom● Christianos ●idit ver● hoc priusquam in Paethmos relega●us esset c. p. 183 184. and p. 185. De ca Roma quae veneficiis seducit quae agnum specie refert scriptam tamen in fronte blasphemiam in Temph Dei sedet cujus merces hominum animae quam decem Reges igne concrematuri sunt ad perniciem sempiternam quae per pseudo prophetam suam vim habet signa faciendi Verè à To●● dicitur Romam Christianam perditam non iri Non cer●è sed illam Antichristianam scili●et c. s Thes 31. De Pontific● R●mano praecipuis qui i●si attribuuntur titulis S. 12. Adversarii parro Dei Antich●isti nomen ipsi compe●ere evidentissima ratione monstratur Prius enim illi Apostolus 〈◊〉 quum appellat illum homi●nem peccati filium perdition●s adversar●um efferentem se supra vel contra omne id quod dicitur Deus aut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it a ut in templ● Dei tanquam Deus sedeat prae se ferens se esse Deum qui ex collapso Imperio Romano exu●get ejusque vacantem dignitatem occ●p●bat haec enim 〈…〉 Romano s●la intelligenda esse intelligi posse asserimus Antichristi ver● nomen il●i compete● excellentissimè sivè particula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oppositionem sive unius re● pro altera substitutionem vel legitimè factam aut per vim fraud●● c significat S. 13. i. e. Omni instiumentor●m Satanicorum genere usus est sophistica hypocris● men●aciis aequ●v●cationibus perfidia perjuriis violentia veneno a●mis adeo ut merito dici possit bestiae illi formidabili quae Pardo Vrso Le●●i similis est quâ Romanum Imperium significatum est successisse c. Faxit Deus ut Ecclesia ab Antichristi fraudibus Tyra●nide liberetur Religiosae sapientiae est Curiam Romanam a● Ecclesia in q●â P●ntifex sedea● interstinguere c. t ●ùm Episcop●s Romanus erecta sibi i● orbe Christiano Monarchia dominationem usurpet in omnes Ecclesias pastores in tantam erectus superbiam 1 ut Deum se dicat Can. satis dist 96. lib. 1. Sac●ar Cerem cap. de Benedictiensis veli●q●e 2 ad●rari Concil Lateran●ult Se●● 1. 3. 9 ● omnemque tribui sibi potestatem in 〈◊〉 in terra res Ecclesiasticas o●nes disp●nat articulos fi lei definiat Scripturarum author●ta●em atque interpretationem à se esse dicat animarum 〈◊〉 exerceat veta juramentáque dispenset novos Dei cultus i●stituat Tum in civilibus legi ●mam magistratu●um au●h●itatem pedib●s sub● gat 〈◊〉 ablatis 〈◊〉 Imperiis Credimus atque asserimus esse verum illum G●rman●m Antichrist●m perditicnis filium pron●nciatum in verbo 〈◊〉 Meretricem purpuratam it siden●em septem 〈◊〉 in ●ogna civitate quae regnum 〈◊〉 in Reges terrae Expecta●●sque dum Dominus pr●ut pr●●sit ac jam coepit confici●ns cum spirituoris sui tandem ill●st●● adventu suo aboleat u Calvin Epist. 104. Under the Papacy some Church remaineth a Church crazed forlorne mistaken yet some Church his reason is Antichrist must sit in the Temple of God which is cited by Mr. Hooker Instit. Sect. 27. Geh●●i a man though over-run with a Leprosy and to be shunned as unclean Antichristianismus est morbus in Christianism● * The words of the Cardinal are these viz. by this Article i. e. that Kings are not deposable by the Pope we are cast headlong into a manifest heresie as binding us to confesse that for many ages past the Catholick Church hath been banished out of the whole world for if the Champions of the doctrine contrary to this Article do hold an impious detestable opinion contrary to Gods word then doubtless the Pope for so many hundred years expired hath not been the head of the Church but an heretick and the Antichrist p. 453. * The usual stile of the Sybils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Roma septicollis in Plutarch Varro a Festival among the Romans called dies septem montium Tertul. in his time calls the people of Rome the people of the seven hills Ipsam vernaculam septem collium plebem convenio Apol. l. 35. x Ita avidè avent homines ●ii Petrum Romae alicubi in Scripturâ reperire poti●s ut Babylone●● velint esse Romam ubi Pe●●us fuit quam ut Petrus Romae n●n fuerit Valde enim illorum interest ad ●aput fidei ut Petrus Romae cred●tur fuisse c. Tort. Torti p 183. y Certissimum esse nomine Babylenis Roma●urbem significari Anno 45. n. 18. z Hui● conveniunt aptissimè omnia atque illud inprimis quod alii conve●ire non potest optimè etiam convenisse● quod in ●odem capite mulier quam vidisti est civitas magna quae habet regnum super reges terr● a Existimamus nomine Babylonis Remanam urbem significari in hoc Apocalypsis opere ubi toties Babylon nominatur c. omnia quae his capitibas memorantur in Romanam urbem aptissimè quadrant b Iohannes in Apocalypsi Passim Romam vocat Babylonem ut Tertullianus annotavit ●pertè colligitut ex cap. 17. Apocal●p ubi dicituy Babylon magna sedere suprà septem montes habere imperium super reges terrae nec enim alia civitas est quae Iohannis tempore imperium habuerat super reges terrae quam Roma notissimum est supra septem colles Romam aedificatam esse lib. 3. de Rom. Pont. cap. 13. c Romaà Johanne vocatur Babylon quia Babilon fuit figura Romae quibus verbi● aptè designat Romam Object Answ. a Answ. to Rhemist Comment on N. T upon this place Magnopere curandum est ut id teneamus quod ubique quod semper quod ab omnibus creditum est hoc est enim verè propriè Catholicum contr haeresin cap. 3. a Initialis doctrina de ministerio Ecclesiae quia tum ordinabantur per impositionem manuum * Totum munus Prophericum c. Phil. 1. 1. * 1 Ep. ● 12. Book of Ordination Object Answ. Object Answ. Book of Ordination Object Answ. 1. 2 Quest. Answ. Object Answ. 1. Gildas * De Minister Anglican Object Answ. * See Bishop