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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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4 Is not this a plain design to set up a carnal Kingdom of ignorant, vicious Clergy-men, such as St. Paul saith, Rom. 8 neither are nor can be subject to Gods Law, instead of a holy Catholic Church and Communion of Saints? and to make Mahometans think that they are Saints in comparison of us, and that Christians are an unholy sort of men?
4 Is not this a plain design to set up a carnal Kingdom of ignorant, vicious Clergy-men, such as St. Paul saith, Rom. 8 neither are nor can be subject to Gods Law, instead of a holy Catholick Church and Communion of Saints? and to make Mahometans think that they are Saints in comparison of us, and that Christians are an unholy sort of men?
5. Either he includeth all that is necessary to the things named by him, or not. If not, then his Priest must know the benefits of Gods Covenant, without knowing what God is, or that Christ is the Purchaser, Covenanter, &c. If yea, (which I doubt not he will say) then, O what an excellent body of Theology is included in these few general words! Then he must know all those Attributes of God and his Relations to man, by which he is said to be our God. He must know all the necessary articles of faith, about the Person of Christ, as God and man in two Natures and one Person, his Incarnation, Birth, Life, Sufferings, Death, Burial! his Doctrine, his Merits, his Resurrection, Ascension, Glory, Intercession, Kingly and Prophetical office, and last Judgment, and Glorious Kingdom. He must know what Covenant God formerly made, and man broke; and what sin, original and actual, and what curse and condemnation followed on mankind. And Oh how many great and mysterious things are contained in Gods Covenant-benefits! On Union with Christ, Reconciliation, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification; The Doctrine of the Holy Ghost as the Third person in the Trinity, and as the Inspirer of Prophets and Apostles, and Inditer and confirmer of the Scriptures, and the Witness of Christ, and the Sanctifier and Comforter of the Elect, besides Resurrection, Glorification, &c. And what a deal is contained in mans necessary qualification