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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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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.
7. Yet (by self contradiction) it will follow, that certainly the Church of Rome, and all that derive their ordination from that ⟨p. 22⟩Church, have no true Bishops, Ministers, Sacraments, Churches, nor Covenant-right to salvation; for it's certain their true succession hath been oft interrupted, 1. By such utterly uncapable persons as all History describeth, and even Baronius calleth Apostaticos non Apostolicos; and such as divers General Councils judged Heretics, Infidels, Simoniacs, &c. e g. Eugenius 4. who yet kept in. 2. By such whose false ordination the Canons expressly null. 3. By many Schisms, two or three Popes at once, of whom none can tell who had the right, or whether any. 4 By the Popes taking on him to be Christs Universal Vicar, an Office in specie usurped, which he maketh his Episcopacy, and as such giveth his orders. And all his Presbyters have turned the true Ministry into the false one of Mass-Priests; and being no true Ministers, can give no true Sacraments by his rule.
7. Yet (by self contradiction) it will follow, that certainly the Church of Rome, and all that derive their ordination from that