Certain Discourses, Table of contents – Errata
THE CONTENTS Of the Severall TREATISES;
The First consists of three POSITIONS.
1. THat a great City called Babylon, shall be a Seducer.
2. That by this City is meant ROME.
3. Not Heathen Rome, but since it was freed from the Government both of Heathen and Christian Emperours, and became the possession of the Pope.
The Second.
How the Papacy may be said to be the Beast that was, and is not, and yet is, Rev. 17. 18.
The Third (being Bishop Bedels Sermon on Rev. 18. 4. Come out of her my people, &c.)
The Speaker, our Saviour Christ: His people, those within the Covenant of Grace: A paralleling the Speeches here, with those of the Prophets; Of Litterall Babell; who meant by Mysticall Babylon: The judgement of Bellarmine, Salmeron, Viegas, to be the City of Rome. How the title of Babylon the great, and her reigning over the Kings of the earth, rather agrees to Rome Papal, then Heathen: The Cup of inchantment whereby she hath deceived all Nations, and one in speciall, in imitation of literall Babell, (Dan. 1.) applyed to that See; Her Wantonnesse, Pride, sitting as a Queen, glorifying her self: the blood of Christians shed by the Papacy, to be beyond that of Heathen Romes persecution: his conclusion from the Premises.
That there are some of Gods people in Babylon; That they are to goe out not only in affection, but the place also: Of Baptisme, Grounds of the Catechisme, Faith, taught there; of the doctrine of of merits: What is to be thought of those that doe yet live there, and cannot come out: Whether the Church of Rome be a true Church, rightly stated, p. 83. Of the Ordination had there, by the use of these words; Whose sins ye remit, &c. That the Papall Monarchy is Babylon, proved by arguments at the barre of Reason, and from common principles of Christianity. p. 89.
Answer to that motive of staying in Babylon, because they are told they may be saved in it:
An exhortation of such as are yet in that captivity to come out, and of our selves to come further out. Of Impropriations, Dispensations, &c. with a conclusive prayer for the destruction of Babylon.
The Fourth, A Confirmation of the abovesaid judgment.
From some grounds out of the Ancient Fathers, consenting in an expectation that Rome must be the place, and the successor of the Emperour there, the Person. A clear application of it to the See of Rome, by the Fathers and Writers in successive ages before and after the tenth Century: The Judgment of the eminent Bishops of England since the reformation, the book of Homilies, especially in 2 places, calling the Pope Antichrist, and the Babylonical beast of Rome. A Synod in France, as Ireland; How far confessed by the prime writers of the Church of Rome. The mistake of such as have diverted the application of it some other way; an Answer of a passage of Doctor Heylenes concerning it, in relation to the Primate, and Articles of Ireland.
The Fifth, Of laying on of Hands. Heb. 6. 2.
Reasons why not confirmation, but ordination. Paraeus and Mr. Cartwrights concurrence in it with the Primate. The necessity of an ordained Ministry. The neglect of it as undermining the foundation. Objections answered, with a seasonable application to the present times. The necessity of an external call; The Authority not from the People, That objection against our ordination being derived from Rome, at large answered p. 218. That personal faults in the ordainers doth not null the ordination; Some application.
The 6. Of the old form of words in Ordination, Receive the Holy Ghost, not meant of the sanctifying grace of the spirit, nor extraordinary gifts of it, but of ghostly or spirituall Ministeriall authority. 1 Cor. 3. verse 3. 6. and 1 Iohn 2. 20. The anointing teacheth you, &c. illustrated. An objection out of S. Augustine answered.
Whose sins thou forgivest, &c. In what sense Ministers are said to forgive sins. The Primates judgement in his answer to the Iesuits Challenge, defended to be according to the doctrine of the Church of England, which Doctor Heylene hath scandalized him in it.
The 7th. Of a Set Form of Prayer.
The judgment of Calvine. Dutch, and French divines with their Practice. Examples out of the Old Testament, and New. The pattern of our Saviour, giving a form to his disciples, taking one to himself, and observing the set forms made by others. That objection of Stinting the spirit answered. An Vniformity in publique prayer a means of reducing unity in Church and State. The full concurrence of Mr. Rogers, Mr. Egerton, Dr. Gouge, Mr. Hildersham, Dr. Sibbs, Dr. Preston, &c. Of the length and gesture in prayer, Mr. Hildersham of an outward reverence in the publick.
A Character of Bishop Bedell, his industry at Venice, and at home, humility, moderation, government, and sufferings.
An answer to Mr. Thomas Pierces fifth Letter, wherein three Certificates have been published by him, for the justification of a change of judgement in the late Primate of Ireland in some points.
ERRATA.
SOme omissions of Accents Po…nting, and number of pages, the intelligent Reader may correct himself.
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