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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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8. Yea it is certain, that few, if any Churches on earth, can prove such an uninterrupted succession as he and the Papists describe, and most its known have no such thing.
9. Therefore if any have such a succession, they cannot know it, it being a thing that cannot be proved; and so cannot be sure that they are true Churches, &c.
10. For the certainty of any true Ministry, Church, Sacraments and Salvation, dependeth on such knowledge of History as is not in the world: viz. To know that this Bishop and his Ordainer, and his Ordainer, and his Ordainer, and so up to the Apostles, were every one true Bishops, and truly Ordained; which no mortal man can know.
10. For the certainty of any true Ministry, Church, Sacraments and Salvation, dependeth on such knowledg of History as is not in the world: viz. To know that this Bishop and his Ordainer, and his Ordainer, and his Ordainer, and so up to the Apostles, were every one true Bishops, and truly Ordained; which no mortal man can know.