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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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21. Doth he not condemn all those Ancient and Modern Christians as Fautors o• damning Doctrine, who thought that when there were none of the Clergy to do it, lay-men might baptize and give the Lords Supper? Grotius told us his judgment for it in Dissertat. de Caenae administrat. ubi Pastores non sunt: And he hath vindicated Tertullian's judgment for it, confessed by Rigaltius. Anton. Govea tells us it was the case of the Christians of ⟨p. 25⟩Malabar, &c. called of St. Thomas, whose Bishops being all destroyed, they caused a Deacon to administer the Eucharist, as the Bishops and Presbyters had done (which Grotius also repeateth). Jonan. Antiochenus magnified by Socrates, lib. 6. cap. 3. when at Antioch there were two Churches, with two Bishops, Meletius and Paulinus, stuck to Meletius till he died, and after, for three years, would communicate with neither. Did he by this become a damned Schismatic, or lose his Covenant-right to salvation?
21. Doth he not condemn all those Ancient and Modern Christians as Fautors o• damning Doctrine, who thought that when there were none of the Clergy to do it, lay-men might baptize and give the Lords Supper? Grotius told us his judgment for it in Dissertat. de Caenae administrat. ubi Pastores non sunt: And he hath vindicated Tertullian's judgment for it, confessed by Rigaltius. Anton. Govea tells us it was the case of the Christians of ⟨p. 25⟩Malabar, &c. called of St. Thomas, whose Bishops being all destroyed, they caused a Deacon to administer the Eucharist, as the Bishops and Presbyters had done (which Grotius also repeateth). Ionan. Antiochenus magnified by Socrates, lib. 6. cap. 3. when at Antioch there were two Churches, with two Bishops, Meletius and Paulinus, stuck to Meletius till he died, and after, for three years, would communicate with neither. Did he by this become a damned Schismatick, or lose his Covenant-right to salvation?