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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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For the Learned Mr. Henry Dowel (after a personal Conference with him). SIR, Concord and Peace are so very desirable to the ends of Christianity, that I am glad to hear you speak for them in the general, though I take your way to be certainly destructive of them; and because you think the like of mine, and so while we are agreed for the end, we greatly differ about the means, I shall here perform what I last offered you, viz. I. An explication ⟨p. 119⟩of my own sense of the way of Church-concord (because you said I am still upon the destructive part) viz. 1. My fundamental Principles. 2. The way of concord, which I suppose to be sufficient, and only likely (as appointed by God) to attain that end. II. The reasons of my utter dissent from your way. III. A Proposal for our further debating of these differences.
For the Learned Mr. Henry Dowell (after a personal Conference with him). SIR, COncord and Peace are so very desirable to the ends of Christianity, that I am glad to hear you speak for them in the general, though I take your way to be certainly destructive of them; and because you think the like of mine, and so while we are agreed for the end, we greatly differ about the means, I shall here perform what I last offered you, viz. I. An explication ⟨p. 119⟩of my own sense of the way of Church-concord (because you said I am still upon the destructive part) viz. 1. My fundamental Principles. 2. The way of concord, which I suppose to be sufficient, and only likely (as appointed by God) to attain that end. II. The reasons of my utter dissent from your way. III. A Proposal for our further debating of these differences.
I. I hope if you are a man of charity or impartiality, it will be no hard matter to you to believe that I am willing to be acquainted with healing truth (that I say not as willing as you); and if I be unhappy in the success of my Enquiries, it is not for want of searching diligence. And your parts assure me, that it is so with you. But it is the usual effect of one received error, to let in many more; and it is so either with me or you. And lest it should prove my unhappiness, I shall thankfully accept your remedying informations.