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.

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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.

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Ussher, James, 1581-1656.

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London :: Printed for John Crook ...,

1659.

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Bedell, William, 1571-1642.

Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64635.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE Right Worshipfull Sir WILLIAM ELLIS BARONET, His HIGHNES Sollicitor GENERALL, The Readers, and Benchers, With the Ancients, Barresters, and Students, Of the Honourable Society of Graies-Inne.
• To the Reader
• THE CONTENTS Of the Severall TREATISES;
• ERRATA.
• The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, what is understood by Babylon, in Apoc. 17. & 18.
  • The first Position.
    • Proof.
  • The second Position.
    • Proof.
  • The third Position.
    • Proof.
• The judgement of the Pri∣mate (wrot by him long agoe in answer to the request of a learned Friend) what is meant by the beast that was, and is not, and yet is, and other passages in the 17. and 18. of the Revelation.
• 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.
• A Confirmation of the Iudge∣ment of these two most Reve∣rend and learned Bishops in this particular, and the vindi∣cation of it, from the aspersion of Novelty or Singularity, from some grounds out of the Anci∣ent Fathers; the continued Suf∣frages of learned men in succes∣sive ages, and the most eminent Bishops of England and Ireland of later yeares: occasioned to be the more large by the Censure which Doctor Heylene (in his late book) gives the Primate, and the Articles of Ireland for it.
• THE Late Arch-Bishop of AR∣MAGH'S judgement, of the sense of that place. Heb. 6. 2. Of laying on of hands, enlarged and defended.
• The Primates judgement of the Sense and Vse of the Form of words in the former Constitution, at the Ordination of Priests or Presbyters, defen∣ded, and enlarged. viz. Re∣ceive the Holy Ghost, whose sins thou forgivest, they are forgi∣ven, and whose sins thou doest retain, they are retained. Which as an Appendix to the former subject, could not well be omitted.
• The PRIMATES judgment of the Vse of a set Form of Prayer, heretofore declared, and now more fully enlarged, and confirmed; with the con∣currence of the Votes of such eminent persons who are so esteemed by the contrary-min∣ded.
• A CHARACTER of Bishop Bedell late Bishop of Kilmore, in Ireland.
• A Letter of Sir Henry Wotton's to the late King, in the behalf of Bishop Bedel, when he was de∣sired by the Archbishop of Ar∣magh, to accept of the Provost∣ship of Dublin Colledge in Ire∣land, which hath been lately published in the Life of Sir Henry Wotton.
• A Postscript.
• Doctor Bernards Answer to Mr. Pierce's Fifth Letter containing three Certificates, produced by him to justifie a late change of judgsment in the Primate of Ireland.