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An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…
An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal sovereignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal soveraignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Chapter 3: The consequence of Mr. Dodwell's foresaid doctrine.
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3. The Protestant Churches are in the same unchurched damnable case that have Bishops, if they have not an uninterrupted succession of such from the Apostles canonically ordained.
4. Therefore the Churches of Denmark, Germany, &c. that have Superintendents ordained at the Reformation by Bugenhagius, Pomeranus a Presbyter, and all the rest whose succession was interrupted, are in the same case.
5. It is Schism, and rejecting Sacraments, and Covenant-right to salvation, in all the people that continue in such Protestant Churches, and communicate with them.
6. It is better for the Protestants in France to join with the Papists, than to live as they do without Sacraments or Church-communion.
6. It is better for the Protestants in France to joyn with the Papists, than to live as they do without Sacraments or Church-communion.