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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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Ans. A begging affirmer may easily write Books at that rate.
But saith •e, They cannot give an instance from humane Charters, where the acts of men, not invested, are valid in Law.
But saith •e, They connot give an instance from humane Charters, where the acts of men, not invested, are valid in Law.
Ans. 1. Will you tell the King so to his face, that before his Coronation no act is valid that he doth? 2. No doubt but (as public Matrimony after secret Marriage is necessary, in foro civili ordinis gratiâ, where it may be had, and yet when it was done by a Justice, without a Priest, yea, or by the persons public contract only, it was no nullity, no, nor coram Deo before, so) to regular order, the most orderly Investiture is needful, but not ad esse, much less that all the Investers circumstances also, and all his predecessors, have been regular. 3. Investing here, is the act of a servant only, solemnizing the entrance, or delivery of possession: But such a servant is not the Owner, and Don•• of th• power. 4. The Papists and Protestants confess that the power of Investing is so humane and mutable, that it cannot be necessary, ad esse potestatis. I told you how oft the power of choosing •nd investing Popes hath been changed. And the old Canons make the Act of three Bishops necessary to Invest, or consecrate one. But did God determin• of three? Or can you prove on• Bishops Ordination a Nullity? 5. In the Civil State some Officers are made without any Investiture (as Constables, Headboroughs, Church Wardens and others), and some the Charter imposeth Investiture on: But whether if Recorders, Stewards, Town Clerks, that by Charter are to Invest, be dead, or refuse their Act, the Mayor, Bailiff, or other Officers be therefore none, and the Government be dead, let Lawyers tell you. 6. Sure I am that Hen. 4. and the rest of the Germane Emperors, who fought, and strove so long against Hildebrand, and his Adherents, for the Investing-power, were no Bishops; and all the Councils of Bishops, who stood for the Emperors, never took them for Bishops; and therefore thought not that Investing was an Act proper to Episcopal-power. 7. I have before proved, that ancient Writers, and Papists, and many Protestants agree, that Baptism is valid administered