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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 5: Wherein Mr. Dodwell's deceits, and the danger of them do consist.
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Kingly power requireth not ad dispositionem materiae, such Personal ability as the Pastoral-office doth. A child may be a King, and it may serve turn if he be but the head of power, and give others commission to do all the rest of the Governing work. But it is not so with a Judg, a Physician, an Orator, or a Bishop; who is not subjectum capax of the essence of the office, without personal aptitude. III. God hath described the Bishops office in Scripture as consisting of three parts, viz. Teaching, Priestly, (or about Worship and Sacraments) and ruling; as under Christs Prophetical, Priestly and Kingly Office. And he hath no where made one ⟨p. 82⟩more proper to a Bishop than another; nor said this is Essential, and that is but Integral. Therefore the Bishop may as well allow a Layman to administer the Sacraments, &c. as one not appointed to it by God, to Rule by the Keys. IV. The Bishops Pastoral Rule is only by Gods word upon the Conscience (as Bishop Bilson of Obed. showeth at large, and all Protestants agree), and not by any mulcts or corporal force. If he use the sword, or constraint, it is not as a Bishop, but as a Magistrate. But the Kings is by the sword. And will it follow that because the King may appoint another to apprehend men, and carry them to prison, &c. that therefore a Bishop appointed by God to Preach, Worship and Rule, and therein to draw the Impenitent to Repentance by patient exhortations, and reproofs, &c. may commit this to another, never appointed to it of God? V. Either it is the Bishops work (as was said) that is delegated by him, or some other. If properly his own, than either he maketh more Bishops, (and that's all we plead for), or else a Presbyter or Layman may do a Bishops proper work. And then what need of a Bishop (to pass by the contradiction.) VI. But my chief answer to you is, the King as Supreme Magistrate doth appoint and rule by others that are truly Magistrates: They have every one a Judicial power in their several places under him, even every Justice of Peace. But you suppose the Bishop to set up no Bishops, nor no Church-Governors under him at all. A King can rule a Kingdom by Supremo Judgment, when he hath hundreds of Judges under him who do it by his authority.
Kingly power requireth not ad dispositionem materiae, such Personal ability as the Pastoral-office doth. A child may be a King, and it may serve turn if he be but the head of power, and give others commission to do all the rest of the Governing work. But it is not so with a Judg, a Physician, an Orator, or a Bishop; who is not subjectum capax of the essence of the office, without personal aptitude. III. God hath described the Bishops office in Scripture as consisting of three parts, viz. Teaching, Priestly, (or about Worship and Sacraments) and ruling; as under Christs Prophetical, Priestly and Kingly Office. And he hath no where made one