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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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§. 13. And this is so evident a truth, that the Papists themselves, who would fain have all power flow from the Pope, are yet forced to plead for it, (as you may see in W Johnson's, alias Terret's answer to my first) because else they cannot defend the Papal Power. For the Pope hath been sometimes chosen by the Roman people, sometime by the Roman Presbyters, sometimes by people and Presbyters, sometime by the Italian Bishops, sometimes by Emperors, and now by Cardinals; and none of all these were Popes, nor had Papal power; and if they were the givers, must give what they never had: Whereupon the Papists are fo•c't to grant that the Electors do but determine who shall be the Recipient, but that the power floweth to him •m•edi•tely from Gods Law or Institution.
§. 13. And this is so evident a truth, that the Papists themselves, who would fain have all power flow from the Pope, are yet forced to plead for it, (as you may see in W Iohnson's, alias Terret's answer to my first) because else they cannot defend the Papal Power. For the Pope hath been sometimes chosen by the Roman people, sometime by the Roman Presbyters, sometimes by people and Presbyters, sometime by the Italian Bishops, sometimes by Emperors, and now by Cardinals; and none of all these were Popes, nor had Papal power; and if they were the givers, must give what they never had: Whereupon the Papists are fo•c't to grant that the Electors do but determine who shall be the Recipient, but that the power floweth to him •m•edi•tely from Gods Law or Institution.
§. 14. And the Prelatists must needs say the same, or else grant, that Inferiors, that never had Superior power, may yet give it others; for how else shall the supreme Ecclesiastical power, in every National Church, be given? If it be in a Primate, or a