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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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§ 35. P. 90. At the end of this insinuated false accusation, he asketh, [Where do we find that God ever gave Bishops, Presbyters and Deacons, (though he gave Apostles, Pastors and Teachers)? those extraordinary Offices indeed seem to have been made neither of man, nor by man, but by God immediately, &c.
Ans. 1. Hath he said a word to prove that Pastors and Teachers are not ordinary Officers, contrary to the common judgment of the Church in all ages? 2. Whether he mean [Bishops] in the Dative Case, or the Accusative, I know not. If the later, let him speak out and say, God gave not Bishops. But how proveth he that Presbyters (and Bishops) are not Pastors or Teachers? 3. The Text tells you, Ephes. 4.14, 15, 16. that these offices were given for the continued stated use of the Church: For the perfecting of the Saints, the work of the Ministry, for the edifying the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, &c. Was this temporary? 4. It seems he disclaimeth Bishops being made, in making Apostles. 5. Christ by his Spirit in the Apostles ordered the Churches.
Ans. 1. Hath he said a word to prove that Pastors and Teachers are not ordinary Officers, contrary to the common judgment of the Church in all ages? 2. Whether he mean [Bishops] in the Dative Case, or the Accusative, I know not. If the later, let him speak out and say, God gave not Bishops. But how proveth he that Presbyters (and Bishops) are not Pastors or Teachers? 3. The Text tells you, Ephes. 4.14, 15, 16. that these offices were given for the continued stated use of the Church: For the perfecting of the Saints, the work of the Ministry, for the edifying the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith, and the knowledg of the Son of God, to a perfect man, &c. Was this temporary? 4. It seems he disclaimeth Bishops being made, in making Apostles. 5. Christ by his Spirit in the Apostles ordered the Churches.