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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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§. 32. He next pleadeth the Nullity of the Presbyterians Ordination. 1. Because if they had Ordaining power, it is only in Assemblies where Bishops are Presidents, and Edict them. 2. And because they carry it not by Plurality of Voices. But I am a weary with answering such trifling things, and the later part is a known mistake. I never heard of one contradicting Voice against the Ordination of any that was Ordained in our Synods.
§. 33. And he hath half disabled me to answer him from p. 50. forwards, where he feigneth me to maintain, that Authority must necessarily result from true qualifications: For it is taken for uncivil to give his words their proper name. But if the Reader will pardon the Repetition, I may remind him, how probable it is, that Mr. Dodwell trusted that his Reader would believe his words without perusing what I wrote; where he might have seen, 1. That I say, that the Authority resulteth not from the qualifications, but from Christs Law, Grant, or Charter. 2. That personal qualifications (of gifts, or grace) are but part of the necessary Dispasitio Recipientis; but that moreover there is needful, 1. Opportunity. 2. And need of his Office. ⟨p. 45⟩3. And to a Bishop the flocks consent, if not election. And ordinis gratia, (where moral necessity dispenseth not with order) the Ordainers approbation and consent. 5. And to regular possession, where it may be had, a due Investiture; so that there is a Relative part as well as a Qualitative of the Receptive disposition necessary. And all the following leaves in which he disputeth against me, as maintaining a power resulting from mere qualities, are so unbeseeming a Divine, and a Christian, that I will not soul my paper with their due confutation. But they are suitable to that man who thinks himself wise, good and fit enough to Unchurch and condemn so much as he doth of the Christian world, on pretence of pleading for obedience to the Diocesans.
§. 33. And he hath half disabled me to answer him from p. 50. forwards, where he feigneth me to maintain, that Authority must necessarily result from true qualifications: For it is taken for uncivil to give his words their proper name. But if the Reader will pardon the Repetition, I may remind him, how probable it is, that Mr. Dodwell trusted that his Reader would believe his words without perusing what I wrote; where he might have seen, 1. That I say, that the Authority resulteth not from the qualifications, but from Christs Law, Grant, or Charter. 2. That personal qualifications (of gifts, or grace) are but part of the necessary Dispasitio Recipientis; but that moreover there is needful, 1. Opportunity. 2. And need of his Office.