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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
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IV. Accordingly Mr. D. holdeth, that there is a supreme Authority in man over the Universal Church, from whose intention and sense it is not lawful for us to appeal so much as to the Sacred Scripture, no nor to the Day of Judgment, for any practice different from them. See his Reply, p. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85.
IV. Accordingly Mr. D. holdeth, that there is a supreme Authority in man over the Universal Church, from whose intention and sense it is not lawful for us to appeal so much as to the Sacred Scripture, no nor to the Day of Iudgment, for any practice different from them. See his Reply, p. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85.
Though we hold that no unjust Appeal should suspend the authorised Acts of a Governor, this Doctrine seems to me to be worse than Antichristian, and to put down God.
Though we hold that no unjust Appeal should suspend the authorised Acts of a Governour, this Doctrine seems to me to be worse than Antichristian, and to put down God.
If God indeed be the Universal Sovereign Lawgiver, and the final Judge; if God be God, and man be man and not above him, to say that we must not obey him before man, and disobey man that commands what he forbids, or that we must not appeal from mans subordinate Law to his supreme Law, nor from mans judgment to his final judgment; and to say, (as ⟨image 5⟩he and Thorndike do) that to do so, and practise accordingly, is inconsistent with all Government, are things that I had hoped my ears or eyes should never have seen or heard delivered by a sober Christian. Papists most commonly abhor it, save some few Flatterers of the Pope. If •his be so, a man must not only worship Images, swear to the Pope, and do all that Councils command; but also curse Christ if the Turkish Rulers bid him, blaspheme God if Heathen Rulers bid him, and condemn all the Martyrs as Rebels that did subvert all Government, by practising contrary to it and appealing to God. And then man must be every where of the Rulers Religion, and do whatever wickedness he commandeth,