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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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1. In Baptism God only giveth the Right and Relation, which the Minister by Investiture solemnizeth, but giveth it not as his own: Else every Lay-man and woman by their judgment, should have multitudes of Christendoms of their own to bestow.
2. In Confirmation the Priest never pretendeth to be the giver of the Spirit, but by his act to fit the person to receive it: The Holy Ghost is said to fall on them that heard the word (before Baptism), Act. 10.44, 45 and they were after baptized: He fell on them, Act. 11.15. And Peter and John prayed ⟨p. 43⟩for the Samaritans, that they might receive the Holy Ghost, Act. 8.15. and they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost, v. 17. but not that they gave the Holy Ghost, though by the laying on of their hands, and their prayers, he was given, as he was on them without, Act. 2.
2. In Confirmation the Priest never pretendeth to be the giver of the Spirit, but by his act to fit the person to receive it: The Holy Ghost is said to fall on them that heard the word (before Baptism), Act. 10.44, 45 and they were after baptized: He fell on them, Act. 11.15. And Peter and Iohn prayed ⟨p. 43⟩for the Samaritans, that they might receive the Holy Ghost,