A19884:827
An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…
An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his writings. By John Davenport BD.An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his wrightings. By Iohn Davenporte BD.
Rotterdam: printed by Isaac van Waesberghe, 1636Rotterdam: printed by Isaack van Waesberghe, 1636
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly. For the power it hath] That it may be distinctly understood what kind of power it is, which (in reference to the ⟨p. 229⟩present question) is due or undue to Classes, I will premise two or three distinctions.
Secondly. For the power it hath] That it may be distinctly understood what kind of power it is, which (in reference to the ⟨p. 229⟩present question) is due or undue to Classes, I will premise two or three distincttons.
1. Dist: It is not potestas originalis, but derivata i. e. it not a power which the Classis hath originally, in, and from it self, but which is borrowed and derived from others, viz, from particular Churches. So that, as the conduit pipes can give no other water, then what themselves received from the springs, nor the stars any greater light, then is communicated to them from the Sun: so the Classes can exercise no other power over any particular Church, then that which it self hath freely given them. Hence it will follow, that the Classes have not an absolute but a limited power, not a Magisterial, but a Ministerial power, not the power of lords, but of stewards, not of princes, but of ambassadors, or heralds, not of lawgivers, but of criers, or publishers of proclamations, not to command (as princes do in the common wealth) but only to signify and declare the command and will of God. And therefore, that they may not define, or determine matters by the opinions or customs of men, but by the truth of God in the Scriptures, which they must show for their warrant. Because the Church it self, from whence their power is derived, hath no other power committed to it. And none can give that to others, which themselves have not. And therefore to require and enjoin men to rest in their determinations, and judgments, without sufficient proof of their agreement with the Scripture, is to give them an undue power.