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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

works retracts that which might seem to Cross this title about the Popes dividing the new world to the Portugals and Spaniards And tempers that which he had said that Christ himselfe whose Vicar the Pope is had no temporal Kingdome and lastly asserts more roundly contrary to his former opinion viz. That the Church may deprive infidels of their Dominion which they have over the Faithfull yea albeit they do not endeavour to turn away the Faithful from the Faith Howsoever she doth not alwayes so because she wanteth strength or doth not judge it expedient but questionlesse if those same Princes do goe about to turn away their people from the faith they may and ought to be deprived of their Dominions I shall not need to call to rememberance here what Faith or infidelity is at this day in the Roman Language when Paul the Fift teacheth the Catholickes that they cannot take the Oath of Fidelity salva fide Catholica with safety of the Catholick Faith which shewes that if the Pope may deprive infidels of their Dominions how much more such as are Christians being thereby more under the verge of his Authority concerning the Popes ruling over the Kings of the Earth this may suffice The Angel which in the begining of this Chapter proclaimeth the fall of Babylon saith that all Nations have drunke of the wine of the wrath of her Fornication and the Kings of the earth have committed Fornication with her In the Greek the Text is so but might as well for the force of the Words and better for the circumstances be rendred of the wine of the heat of her Fornication And so Chapter 14.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This seems to be a Declaration of the liquor contained in the golden Cup which she hath in her hand full of Abominations and unclean Fornications And in this Chapter Verse 23. See also Chapter 14.10 by thy Sorceries were all Nations deceived by all which is meant that with hot intoxicating love drenches she had besotted the Kings of the Earth to be enamored of her How to declare this of Heathen Rome I cannot well tell unless it were that by benefits favours and shew of honor Kings and Provinces were alured to bear the Romane yoak and conform themselves to Rome but for Papal Rome the matter is more easie for under the pretence of religious Holiness and Spiritual profit the blessing of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostle Saint Peter and Saint Paul Christs Vicar and Saint Peters successor the Keyes of Heaven fulness of Power And the Apostolical Sees Exemptions Dispensaons Pardons Faculties Indulgences Jubilees inlarging of souls out of Purgatory she hath brought all sorts to her love and lure Princes and great men finding how needful her favour is for dispensing with some disadvantagious Oaths or incestuous marriages or a soldering some crackt title to some signory have been in Emulation and jealousie one with another about her love and contented their subjects should flatter her and be seduced by her so as at length she hath brought them to believe at least to make profession that they believe She cannot deceive them though she would never so fain Volens Nolens errare non potest If this cup of Inchantment were not were it likely were it possible that she should perswade Christians to be content not to hear Christs Voice speaking in his Word not to receive the Holy Sacrament of his body and blood whole and intire though he so gave it and the Church for many Ages so kept it Not to pray with understanding in a known tongue not to take the ten Commandements as God pronounced and wrote them twice with his owne finger but as she hath rased and deformed them Not to say Amen to the Lords Prayer in the company with other Christians because she would not allow it were it not for this cup of Errour could she have ever perswaded that she can dissolve the bonds of fealty betwixt Subject and Prince depose and denounce Kings and warrant their Subjects to kill them and had she not first with this cup of Sorcery transformed men into beasts could she have found any that would have adventured to execute these her ungodly and wicked designs Here by the way let me tell you of an old Babylonian trick by which especially the Westerne Babylon hath conveyed this cup of Errour into the hands of all Nations We read in the first of Daniel that Nebuchadnezzar commanded the Master of his Eunuches That he should bring certain of the Kings seed and of the Princes Children in whom was no blemish and of able witts to teach them the Learning and Tongue of the Chaldeans Thus were Daniel and his fellowes used and had other name● and education given them that they might forget their own though Gods special Grace in them went beyond the pollicy of Babylon Such and worse hath been and is the practice of new Babylon in drawing younger Brothers of great houses and good wits to Rome and Romish Colledges and Seminaries some of their names changed makeing them their chiefe instruments of State to mould and frame their own Families and Countreyes to the Romane Doctrine and Obedience Those of the Council of the Samaritanes that resisted the building of the Temple render the reason of their careful advertising the King of his interest Ezra 4 viz. that because they were salted with the salt of the Palace it was not meet for them to see the Kings damage how should not they that have had their Education at the new Babylons Charges but in gratitude further her affaires and draw all they may to her Obedience and Devotion And thus much concerning Babylons Cup. It followeth after in process of our Lords speech upbraiding her that she glorifies her selfe and lives in wantonness and pride and saith I sit as a Queen and shall not be a widow nor see any sorrow c. It would require a long time to recite the Prov●rbs and by words only which have been cast up and down concerning the wantonness and uncleanness of Rome since she came to be the seat of the Popes Court and how she hath drawn to her self and spent the wealth of all Nations in this matter I will spare rather your Ears and this place then my own pains for the Boast of sitting as a Queen consider her maximes viz. The Church of Rome is the Mistress and Teacher of all Churches without spot or wrinckle and it is necessarie to salvation to every humane Creature to be under the Bishop of Rome that no man may judge him nor say unto him Domine cur ita facias If any man have a desire to see the vaunts of Rome in this kind let him be pleased to view the image of the Man of sin exalting himself in the Temple of God as it is drawn by Master Fox in the end of the former Tome of his Acts and Monuments Ecclesiastical out of the Popes own Decrees and

Decretals And if any make scruple to look on that Book let him see Bellarmine undertaking that the Pope int●nding to teach the whole Church can in no case erre in things appertaining to Faith De Rob. Pont. Cap. 3. Ver. 5. no no yet the particular Church of Rome that it is probable and pious to believe the Pope cannot become an Hereticke even as a particular Person that he is the judge of Controversi●s in the Church and his judgement certain and infallible Add to these that the same Bellarmine makes Temporal Felicity one of the notes of the Church De Not. Eccl. l. 4. c. 8. One point more rests in the speech of the last Angel concerning Babylon in this Chapter Verse the last That in her was f●und the bloud of the Prophets and Saints of all that were slain upon the Earth And in the former Chapter Verse 6. John saw the woman drunken with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs of Jesus That Heathen Rome was such there is no doubt And although Bellarmine would draw the Text another way to Jerusalem that this is the great City Verse 11.8 where the bodies of two witnesses shall lie unburied where also the Lord was Crucified since in the Romane Empire and by a Romane Deputy and to a Romane Death our Lord was put But this doth no less stick by Christian Rome unto this day to be drunken with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Let Histories be turned and an exact account taken how many thousands otherwise good Christians have been slain and massacred merely for his pleasure sake And because they would not submit to her Obedience I think it will very evidently appeare that they are imcomparably more then all those that suffered Martyrdome for the Christian Religion under Heathen Romes persecution To omit those whom as an Imperious Harlot she hath caused to be killed for calling her name in question Thus you see the Description of Babylon doth no lesse agree to the present then the old Heathen Rome the great City her command over the Kings of the Earth Her inchanting Cup Her wantonness and delicacy Her arrogancy and pride Lastly that bloudy and bloud-thirsty Cruelty against the worshippers of Christ exercised by her and which I desire you to observe by her alone for in no other part of the Christian world you shall find it To conclude then since neither Heathen Rome onely as she was heathen as Bellarmine would have it can be Babylon nor partly Heathen and partly Antichristan as revolted from the Pope with a gap of a thousand years between as Viegas divineth And the Character that the Holy Ghost sets upon Babylon doth no lesse but rather more agree to the present Pontifical Rome then to the old Imperial It is the falsely termed Christian indeed the Antichristian Rome which is the Babylon out of which Gods People are called And how they are to go out of her it rests to be considered Bellarmine cites Saint Augustine to prove that it is Corde non Corpore not in place but affection But the Temple of Gods people departing from Babel would seem to imply both And the rather because this great City is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt Rev. 11.8 now such was the departure of Lott out of Sodome and Israel out of Egypt It is true that by Cyrus his Edict Gods people were permitted to return into their own Countrey to the place where the Lords worship was then fixed Now there is no such place specially appointed as our Lord Iesus Christ shews in his speech with the woman of Samaria John 4. But certainly if any of Gods people cannot by separation in judgement and affection so live as not to be partakers of the sins of Babylon they are to go out bodily also and in no wise to touch any unclean thing Gods people are warned to do even by the consideration of the Holy vessels of the Lord which they carried with them out of Babylon The reason which confirms this charge of going out of Babylon is drawn from the danger of participation in her sins and in her Plagues that is Isay 52.11 blowes stripes punishments which are not onely those mentioned in the 8 Verse Death Mourning Famine Fire but as in the 14. Chapter where the same Proclamation is made of her fall which is here the drinking of the hot and unalaid wine of Gods vengeance and to be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and the Lamb and the smoak of their torments shall ascend for ever and ever We have thus descussed the meaning of this Scripture which being all laid together is this Saint Iohn hears our Lord Iesus Christ admonishing from Heaven his faithful people to come out of the obedience of Romish Popish Babylon least partaking with her in her sins they receive also of her stripes and punishments both Temporall and Eternal Here concerning the person of the speaker mentioned in this first place and that circumstance that he speaks from Heaven I will for the present say no more but desire onely that it may renew the religious attention of all that each would say with himselfe I will hearken what the Lord God will say for he will speak Peace unto his People and to his Saints that they turn not to folly That every one would remember the words of the Apostle see that ye despise not him that speaketh Heb. 12.25 for if you escaped not when ye refused him that speaketh one Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven But these points shall be more profitably pressed when we shall have considered the speech it self Wherein observe first he call his people to come out of Babylon a plain Argument that there are many not onely good Moral and Civil honest men there but good Christians not redeemed onely but in the possession of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ which may be confirmed by these reasons First there is amongst these that are under the tyranny of the Romish Babylon the Sacrament of entrance into the Covenant of Grace Baptisme by which those that are partakers thereof are made Members of Christ the children of God and heirs of Eternal life of these that have but this Seal of Gods Covenant viz. infants are no small and contemptible part of Gods People though as yet they cannot hear this Voyce of Christ calling out of Babylon besides this there is publication of the tenure of the Covenant of Grace to such as are of years though not so openly and purely as it might and ought yet so as the grounds of the Catechisme are preached sin is shewed Christs redemption or the story of it is known Faith in him is called for John 3.18.36.5.24 and this Faith is by the Grace of God wrought in some For the Word of God and his Calling is not fruitless but like the rain

God though they live very dangerously under the captivity of Babylon as did Daniel Mordecay Hester Nehemiah and Ezra and many Jewes more notwithstanding both Cyrus Commission and the Prophets Command to depart This point may give some light in a Question that is on foot among learned and good men at this day Whether the Church of Rome be a true Church or no where I thinke surely if the matter be rightly declared for the tearms there will remain no question As thus whether Babylon pretending to be the Church of Rome yea the Catholick Church be so or not or this Whether the people of Christ that are under the captivity be a true Church or no either of both waies declare in these tearms and the matter will be soon resolved Object Except some man will perhaps still Object Though there be a people of God yet they can be no true Church for they have no Priesthood which is necessary to the Constitution of a Church As Saint Cyprian describes it Plebs sacerdoti adunata Epistola 6 9. people joyned to their priest They have no Priesthood being by the very form of their Ordidination Sacrificers for the quick and the dead Answ I answer under correction of better judgements they have the Ministery of Reconciliation by the Commission which is given at their Ordination being the same which our Saviour left in his Church John 20.23 Whose sins ye remit they are remitted whose sinnes ye retain they are retained As for the other power to sacrifice if it be any otherwise then celebrating the Commemoration of Christs sacrifice once offered upon the Cross It is no part of the Priesthood or Ministery of the New Testament But as superfluous additions thereunto which yet worketh not to the destruction of that which is lawfully conferred otherwise This Doctrine I know not how it can offend any unless it be in being too Charitable that I am sure is a good fault and serves well for a sure mark of Christs sheep And hath very good opportunity to help Christs people out of Babel John 13.35 by this saith he shall men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have Charitie one to another But they call us Hereticks miscreants Doggs c. and persecute us with more deadly hatred then Jewes and Turks yea this is Babylon and perhaps some of Gods People in it that are misinformed of us Thus did Saul for a while yet a chosen vessel to bear Christs Name over the world But let us maintain our Charitie to them as we are wont to bear with the weakness of our friends or children when in hot Fevers or Plurisies they miscal us Let us remember if they be Christs people how little loving soever they be to us they must be our beloved Brethren and this of the Persons Now let us see their dutie It is the Duetie of those people of Christ to come out of Babylon that is as we have already shewed the Obedience of the present Roman Monarchy And for this the very authority of Christs Voyce from Heaven should suffice For his sheep hear his voice But if that be yet doubted whether the Papal Monarchy be Babylon let us for the present set aside the mystical Arguments from this place and all other Prophetical Circumstances And let the matter be tried by plainer Arguments at the Bar of Reason out of the common Principles of Christian Doctrine as thus John 5.39 Luke 11.52 1 Cor. 14. Matthew 28.20 Jer. 17.5 Rom. 6.9 Where the use of Christs Word is forbidden to his people where they lay away the Key of Knowledge and Gods Worship is without understanding in an unknown tongue where Christs Sacraments are corrupted and maimed where Divine worship is communicated to Creatures where Christs Glorious Body is defended to be torn not onely with the teeth of the faithful but also of faithlesse men yea of Rats and Mice where besides a number of other superstitions the effects of Christs blood are communicated to Purgatory fire to Saint Francis frock and the Carmilites scapular where the sole infallible interpretation of Scripture decission of Crntroversies last resolution of our Faith is placed in the brest of one man who may be without true Faith and sound Knowledge of Religion or morall honesty it self where the Doctrine is maintained as Catholike that the Pope is Vice God Monarch of the Christian World Almightie that he can Depose Princes and Expose them to their subjects to be killed Command the Angels with many more like blasphemies From this place and society Christs people are to depart and separate themselves But the present Romane Monarchy is such The conclusion follows undenyable Goe out of her my People Object Here will I crave leave to answer on Objection that may be made by flesh and blood to be retentive to keep Gods people from hearkning to this voyce of Christ and is used for a motive to draw more also to the Obedience of Rome Gods people of which number I hope I am one may be saved nay which is more cannot perish why should I then be so solicitous if salvation may be had there on the contrary they deny that you have either Church or salvation Therefore it is the safest course by the Opinion of both sides to continue there still Answ I answer This is not the discourse of Christs sheep who make the hearing of his Voice and doing of his Will a higher end then their own salvation but well may become the mouth of those deceivers that would seduce them It is the very language of the old Serpent ye shall not surely die The reason and rule of Obedience is not the avoyding of hell fire or the attaining of bliss of Heaven but the doing of the Will of God And yet supposing this to be true that salvation mae be had in Babylon yet it is attained with great difficulty and as it were through the fire As the Apostle speaketh of those builders which foolishly lay upon the precious foundation of Christ the hay straw and stubble of mens Traditions And there is again a large entrance to be afforded into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 2. 2 Peter 1.11 If the graces of Gods Spirit abound in us and make us not barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of Christ Again ignorance so that it be not wilful and affected may have some pardon but to hold the Truth of God in unrighteousness as all do that receive not the love of the Truth and knowing how they which commit such things are worthy of death yet doe the same and favour those that doe them The wrath of God from heaven is revealed against such Romans 1.18.31 Even the danger of temporal punishment threatned to the sinnes of Rome is not to be neglected Suppose a man were sure to goe to Heaven but although to humane infirmity it may perhaps seem otherwise even the Eternal punishments