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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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3. This is high language, and harsh to Protestant and Christian ears, What! are you serious? Must none in Rome, Italy, Spain, France, &c. practise contrary to their Governors? nor in Turkey neither? Nor in China, Japan, &c? Is it unlawful to read the Scripture, to pray, to worship God, to be baptized, to profess our selves Christians, to speak a good word, or do a good deed, to feed our Children, or relieve our Parents, &c. if Governors forbid us? This is far worse than to forbid the Scripture in a known tongue, if when we know it, we must not obey it if Governors forbid us, nor so much as plead Divine Authority for doing what Gods word commandeth us? Is Gods authority so contemptible in comparison of Prelates. Or doth it so little concern us, as that we may not so much as plead it for any practice forbidden us by superiors? This Doctrine must needs startle a Christians heart. It's far unlike Bishop Bilsons of subjection, and such others. If you really mean so, that whatever God commandeth us in Scripture, we must do none of it if the Governors forbid us, or else we overthrow all Governments, speak it out, and prove it; but Christians will abhor it. And yet this same man calleth the Martyrs Saints, when his argument makes them rebels. W. Johnson would not have talked at this rate.
3. This is high language, and harsh to Protestant and Christian ears, What! are you serious? Must none in Rome, Italy, Spain, France, &c. practise contrary to their Governours? nor in Turky neither? Nor in China, Iapan, &c? Is it unlawful to read the Scripture, to pray, to worship God, to be baptized, to profess our selves Christians, to speak a good word, or do a good deed, to feed our Children, or relieve our Parents, &c. if Governours forbid us? This is far worse than to forbid the Scripture in a known tongue, if when we know it, we must not obey it if Governours forbid us, nor so much as plead Divine Authority for doing what Gods word commandeth us? Is Gods authority so contemptible in comparison of Prelates. Or doth it so little concern us, as that we may not so much as plead it for any practice forbidden us by superiours? This Doctrine must needs startle a Christians heart. It's far unlike Bishop Bilsons of subjection, and such others. If you really mean so, that whatever God commandeth us in Scripture, we must do none of it if the Governours forbid us, or else we overthrow all Governments, speak it out, and prove it; but Christians will abhor it. And yet this same man calleth the Martyrs Saints, when his argument makes them rebels. W. Iohnson would not have talkt at this rate.