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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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5. And we know that such a Ministry hath continued to propagate the Church and Gospel in the world since the Apostles days.
But we confess, 1. That we cannot prove, that such Ministers have still succeeded in the same Towns. 2. Nor that no one, from whom their Ordination came down from the Apostles, did pretend to have Orders, or Authority when he had none. 3. Or that no one of them in 1660. years was an Heretic, or a Schismatic, or a Papist. 4. Or that no one Ordained ⟨p. 56⟩in wrong words. 5. Or that no one Ordained contrary to the Canons, out of his own limits, or without three Bishops, or without the Presbyters. 6. Or that no Competitors were Ordained by several Bishops. Mr. Dodwell is a great Historian; when he hath proved all this of all, or any of his Clergy-friends, he hath done something more than multiply words.
But we confess, 1. That we cannot prove, that such Ministers have still succe•ded in the same Towns. 2. Nor that no one, from whom their Ordination came down from the Apostles, did pretend to have Orders, or Authority when he had none. 3. Or that no one of them in 1660. years was an Heretick, or a Schismatick, or a Papist. 4. Or that no one Ordained ⟨p. 56⟩in wrong words. 5. Or that no one Ordained contrary to the Canons, out of his own limits, or without three Bishops, or without the Presbyters. 6. Or that no Competitors were Ordained by several Bishops. Mr. Dodwell is a great Historian; when he hath proved all this of all, or any of his Clergy-friends, he hath done something more than multiply words.