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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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3. And we hold, that no man can extend his own power further than Christs own Law extendeth it. False expositions give no power.
4. And therefore we prove by your own Rule, that (Christ being the only supreme universal Ruler, and having described and specified the Office of a Pastor, and order of a Church) no Bishops can by their private exposition▪ turn a single Church into a Diocesan, or a Presbyter of Christs description into an half Presbyter of their own making: But if they make a man a Pastor, his power and work shall be what Christ saith, and not what the Orda•ner will. Investing-Ministers Acts are null, if they contradict the Order of the Donor: If the King give you a Parsonage of 300. l. a year, and the Instituter say, you shall have but 100. l. out of it, it's vain; he instituteth you but as the Donors instrument in the same Benefice, and power given by him.
§ 25. He addeth, p. 38. Where can they find such a Charter for the power of Presbyters in Scripture as they speak of?