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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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§. 16. And thus Servants improperly only make men their Masters, not by giving them a Domestic Ruling-power (which they never had themselves), but by making themselves the Correlate Subjects, and so putting their Masters into the Relation, to which Gods L•w immediately giveth the Ruling-power. All the power is from God: and God doth not first give it the Servant, Soldier, &c. to give the Master, or Captain, but the Servants, or Soldiers consent is, a Causa sine quae non, dispos•tiva Recipientis, to make the Receiver capable of it from God.
§. 16. And thus Servants imprope•ly only make men their Masters, not by giving them a Domestick Ruling-power (which they never had themselves), but by making themselves the Correlate Subjects, and so putting their Masters into the Relation, to which Gods L•w immediately giveth the Ruling-power. All the power is from God: and God doth not first give it the Servant, Souldier, &c. to give the Master, or Captain, but the Servants, or Souldiers consent is, a Causa sine quae non, dispos•tiva Recipientis, to make the Receiver capable of it from God.
§. 17. And indeed all Kings and Sovereigns thus hold their Sovereignty from God. Though God hath not made the form, in Specie, necessary; all power is of God, and the Sovereignty from him, by no mediate Efficient below his Law: It's a falsehood in politics to say▪ that the people, as such, efficiently give the Sovereign his power, and that he is universis minor in Authority, though he is not universis melior; and therefore their common good is more than his, the finis regiminis ▪ Nor is it true, that Richard Hooker saith, that in defect of Heirs it escheateth to the people; but only that it belongeth to the people to choose a new Recipient, to whom the power shall flow from Gods Law, and not from them. I do not think that the King of France, Spain, or England, will believe that their power is given efficiently by, and floweth from their People, Parliaments, or