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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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§. 46. And this leads me to another part of Mr. Dodwell's work: viz. his proof that Aidan and Finan were Bishops. As if this had been a great part of his Cause. Such diverting noise is a great part of the art of deceiving. Because I had said, that Aiden and Finan were not Bishops, but Presbyters, that is, when they came out of Scotland into Northumberland, I apprehended that some men of his g••ius and design, would be willing to mistake me, and therefore Printed an Explication of the Words in the end of my first Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet. But Mr. D would have men think that I said, that they were never made and called Bishops at all; and that I read not Bede, from whom alone (near Five and Thirty years ago) I took almost all that I assert concerning them. Let the ⟨p. 57⟩Reader see my foresaid Explication. If Mr. Dodwell will give us more than noise and mist about this matter:
§. 46. And this leads me to another part of Mr. Dodwell's work: viz. his proof that Aidan and Finan were Bishops. As if this had been a great part of his Cause. Such diverting noise is a great part of the art of deceiving. Because I had said, that Aiden and Finan were not Bishops, but Presbyters, that is, when they came out of Scotland into Northumberland, I apprehended that some men of his g••ius and design, would be willing to mistake me, and therefore Printed an Explication of the Words in the end of my first Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet. But Mr. D would have men think that I said, that they were never made and called Bishops at all; and that I read not Beda, from whom alone (near Five and Thirty years ago) I took almost all that I assert concerning them. Let the ⟨p. 57⟩Reader see my foresaid Explication. If Mr. Dodwell will give us more than noise and mist about this matter:
1. Let him prove that it was Diocesan Bishops that Ordained these Scots before they came into England, when Bede saith they were sent from those Monasteries that were ruled by Presbyters, and which would not so much as eat or communicate with the Roman Bishops.