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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 4: My words of Gods Collation of Ministerial Authority, Vindicated from the forgeries and…
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CHAP. IV. My words of Gods Collation of Ministerial Authority, Vindicated from the forgeries and fallacies of Mr. Dodwell.
§. 1. CHRIST hath taught me to judg of Prophets, or Teachers, by their fruits more than by their clothing, Mat. 7. And the fruits which are of God, are those which express the Divine Nature and Image, viz. holy Light and Truth, holy Love, and holy Life and Practice, and the promoting of these in the world.
§. 1. CHRIST hath taught me to judg of Prophets, or Teachers, by their fruits more than by their cloathing, Mat. 7. And the fruits which are of God, are those which express the Divine Nature and Image, viz. holy Light and Truth, holy Love, and holy Life and Practice, and the promoting of these in the world.
And Christ hath taught me, that the Devil is, 1. Against holy Light and Truth, the Prince of Darkness, and a Liar, and the Father of Lies. 2. Against holy Love, accusing, slandering, ⟨p. 28⟩and rendering as odious the servants and ways of Christ. 3. Against holy, righteous, and sober living; and an opposer of it, and a persecutor and murderer of the Saints.
And Christ hath taught me, that the Devil is, 1. Against holy Light and Truth, the Prince of Darkness, and a Lyar, and the Father of Lyes. 2. Against holy Love, accusing, slandring,