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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. This opens the Core of the Aposthume.
1. We deny, as confidently as any French, or Italians affirm, that there is any such thing at a supreme visible power over the universal Church, under Jesus Christ; and therefore none such is disobeyed, or contradicted.
2. And we maintain, That by Divine appointment there is no visible National supreme Church-power, but that of the Civil Christian Sovereign; and therefore none such disobeyed.
2. And we maintain, That by Divine appointment there is no visible National supreme Church-power, but that of the Civil Christian Soveraign; and therefore none such disobeyed.
3. And we hold, that no man can extend his own power further than Christs own Law extendeth it. False expositions give no power.