A26860:13
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
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II. Mr. Dodwell thinks that the Presbyters, yea and Bishops, were not given by God. Pag. 60. saith he, But where do they find, that God ever gave Bishops, Presbyters and Deacons? Where note, that it is of the Office in specie that we speak.
II. Mr. Dodwell thinks that the Presbyters, yea and Bishops, were not given by God. Pag. 60. saith he, But where do they find, that God ever gave Bishops, Presbyters and Deacons? Where note, that it is of the Office in specie that we speake.
But we think that God hath made or instituted the Office and its work. And if he did not, 1. Who did? If men, was it Clerg-ymen or Lay-men? If Lay-men, was it Christians or Infidels? And by what Authority? Do the children beget the fathers, and yet may not Presbyters propagate their species? If Clergy-men, who were they? If not Apostles, or Prophets, or Evangelists, they were none. If these, then it seems the Apostles did it not as Bishops; for it is the making of the first Bishops that we question. And what the Apostles did (not as Bishops, but) as commissioned Apostles, Christ did by his Spirit. And they that will do the like, must have the like Office, Authority and Spirit. If God gave not Bishops, because the Apostles made them, then God gave us not the Scripture, because the Apostles and Evangelists wrote it.
And is not this the same or worse Doctrine than that which the Italian Jesuits would have had pass at Trent, against Gods making Bishops or their Office?
And is not this the same or worse Doctrine than that which the Italian Iesuits would have had pass at Trent, against Gods making Bishops or their Office?