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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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§. 34. And where he adds, p. 50. [Or that it so depends on them (qualifications) as that where the persons ordained may want any of them, there the whole: Ordination must be null, because of the incapacity of the matter.] This also he denieth.
§. 34. And where he adds, p. 50. [Or that it so depends on them (qualifications) as that where the persons ordained may want any of them, there the whol: Ordination must be null, because of the incapacity of the matter.] This also he denieth.
Ans. 1. I still distinguish between the Qualifications necessary ad esse, and those only ad bene esse, or integral. If he would persuade the Reader that I null Ordination for want of the latter, his weakness, or designed ill intent is such as warneth his Readers to take heed of believing him. If he mean it only of the former, as I speak, I have before confuted him that dare say that no qualification is necessary ad esse. Then a Pope Joan, or woman-Priest or Prelate, or a professed enemy of God or Christ may be a Priest. And he may be a Pastor of a Church to feed them by the Word, who never heard or know what was the Word or Church. Cannot the best believer go to Heaven, if all your Priests will but deny him the Sacrament? and yet may a man be validly a Bishop, and the Key keeper of Heaven that believeth not that there is a God, a Christ or Heaven, and so professeth? This maketh me remember the old Roman Canons, how no Bishop must be deposed for lying with his own Sister, unless a great multitude of Witnesses testify it; and the Councils that decreed no Layman shall witness against a Clergy-man, &c.
Ans. 1. I still distinguish between the Qualifications necessary ad esse, and those only ad bene esse, or integral. If he would perswade the Reader that I null Ordination for want of the latter, his weakness, or designed ill intent is such as warneth his Readers to take heed of believing him. If he mean it only of the former, as I speak, I have before confuted him that dare say that no qualification is necessary ad esse. Then a Pope Ioan, or woman-Priest or Prelate, or a professed enemy of God or Christ may be a Priest. And he may be a Pastor of a Church to feed them by the Word, who never heard or know what was the Word or Church. Cannot the best believer go to Heaven, if all your Priests will but deny him the Sacrament? and yet may a man be validly a Bishop, and the Key keeper of Heaven that believeth not that there is a God, a Christ or Heaven, and so professeth? This maketh me remember the old Roman Canons, how no Bishop must be deposed for lying with his own Sister, unless a great multitude of Witnesses testifie it; and the Councils that decreed no Layman shall witness against a Clergy-man, &c.