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…

4. But if Preaching and Teaching be all one with you as they are with me, is it not a strange question to ask, How we prove that Preaching, that is, Teaching, is at all essential to their Office? As if you should ask, How we prove that Teaching is essential to a Schoolmaster or Tutor? or that to Rule is essential to a Ruler; or to give Physic essential to a Physician? What can you take the Office to be that includeth not Teaching? Neither Christs Apostles, nor the ancient Church ever ordained any to give Sacraments without Teaching, (however Papists make the essence of the Priesthood to be in the power of making the body and blood of God.) Nay, how can they celebrate the Sacraments without Preaching or Teaching? Can they justly baptize the adult, and not teach them the great Articles of the Creed which they must profess? and the great and many duties to be done? and the great and many benefits to be received? And doth he think it such a small and easy matter to teach men all the Articles of the Creed, the sense of the Lords prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the nature of the Sacrament of Baptism, and the Lords-supper? It may be h• will say, that it is some other Preaching that he meaneth. But he speaketh to me, who (in the hearing of D• Warmstrie, and of Mr. Th. Baldwin, who is yet living) did offer Bishop Morley when he forbade me to preach in his Diocese, to promise him to preach only the Catechism-Doctrine, on Baptism, the Creed, the Lords prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Lords supper. Archbishop Usher in his sermon before King James, on Ephes 4 3. boldly affi•••th, That l•t the learnedst of them all try it when they will, they shall find that it requireth greater skill to open to the ignorant intelligibly these Catechism common truths, than to handle points of controverted School-Divinity.

4. But if Preaching and Teaching be all one with you as they are with me, is it not a strange question to ask, How we prove that Preaching, that is, Teaching, is at all essential to their Office? As if you should ask, How we prove that Teaching is essential to a Schoolmaster or Tutor? or that to Rule is essential to a Ruler; or to give Physick essential to a Physician? What can you take the Office to be that includeth not Teaching? Neither Christs Apostles, nor the ancient Church ever ordained any to give Sacraments without Teaching, (however Papists make the essence of the Priesthood to be in the power of making the body and blood of God.) Nay, how can they celebrate the Sacraments without Preaching or Teaching? Can they justly baptize the adult, and not teach them the great Articles of the Creed which they must profess? and the great and many duties to be done? and the great and many benefits to be received? And doth he think it such a small and easie matter to teach men all the Articles of the Creed, the sense of the Lords prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the nature of the Sacrament of Baptism, and the Lords-supper? It may be h will say, that it is some other Preaching that he meaneth. But he speaketh to me, who (in the hearing of D Warmstrie, and of Mr. Th. Baldwin, who is yet living) did offer Bishop Morley when he orbad me to preach in his Diocess, to promise him to preach only the Catechism-Doctrine, on Baptism, the Creed, the Lords prayer, the Ten Cmmandments, and the Lords supper. Archbishop Vsher in his ermon before King Iames, on Ephs 4 3. boldly affith, That lt the learneds of them all try it when they will, they shall find that it requireth greater skill to open to the gnorat intelligily these Catchism common truths, than to handle points of controverted School-Divinity.