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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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§. 28. If it be otherwise, Princes, Patrons, and Prelates, are greater and richer than I ever thought them 1. Then, all the Bishoprics in England are the King's, till he give them. 2. Then all the Tithes, Glebes, and Temples in England, are the Patrons, till they give them; or else the Bishops, or Chancellors, who investeth men in them by institution and induction. And the Patron and Bishop may have a hard suit to determine which is the Proprietor. 3. And then a Bishop that Ordaineth a thousand Priests, was the Owner of all their Relations before; and so as they that are for the pre-existence of souls, dispute, whether they pre-existed individually, or only in animâ universally; so these that are for the pre existence of Priesthoods in the Diocesans, must dispute, whether they were in the Prelate a thousand individual Priesthoods before, or but one common Priesthood, that fell into individuals by Ordination. If they say, that they were but virtually in the Prelate, that kills their Cause; for then they did not pre-exist (for existere est esse extra causas). And this only saith, that the Prelate had an effective virtue that could make them. But the species was made before; and so was the obliging, and Donative Law; therefore the Prelate had not power to do what God had done before.
§. 28. If it be otherwise, Princes, Patrons, and Prelates, are greater and richer than I ever thought them 1. Then, all the Bishopricks in England are the King's, till he give them. 2. Then all the Tythes, Glebes, and Temples in England, are the Patrons, till they give them; or else the Bishops, or Chancellors, who investeth men in them by institution and induction. And the Patron and Bishop may have a hard suit to determine which is the Proprietor. 3. And then a Bishop that Ordaineth a thousand Priests, was the Owner of all their Relations before; and so as they that are for the pre-existence of souls, dispute, whether they pre-existed individually, or only in animâ universali; so these that are for the pre existence of Priesthoods in the Diocesans, must dispute, whether they were in the Prelate a thousand individual Priesthoods before, or but one common Priesthood, that fell into individuals by Ordination. If they say, that they were but virtually in the Prelate, that kills their Cause; for then they did not pre-exist (for existere est esse extra causas). And this only saith, that the Prelate had an effective vertue that could make them. But the species was made before; and so was the obliging, and Donative Law; therefore the Prelate had not power to do what God had done before.